Friday, July 14th 2017
Liquid Cooled AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Now on Sale for $1,489.99
The liquid cooled version of AMD's latest graphics card meant for the "pioneering crowd" of prosumers has been made available over at SabrePC. It sports the exact same GPU you'd find on the air-cooled version, featuring all the same 4096 Stream Processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory. The only differences are, and you guessed it, the higher cooling capacity afforded by the AIO solution, and the therefore increased TDP from the 300 W of the air-cooled version to a eyebrow-raising 375 W. That increase in TDP must come partially from the employed cooling solution, but also from an (for now, anecdotal) ability for the card to more easily sustain higher clocks, closer to its AMD-rated 1,630 MHz peak core clock.
You can nab one right now in that rather striking gold and blue color scheme, and have it shipped to you in 24H. Hit the source link for the SabrePC page.
Sources:
SabrePC, Computerbase.de
You can nab one right now in that rather striking gold and blue color scheme, and have it shipped to you in 24H. Hit the source link for the SabrePC page.
96 Comments on Liquid Cooled AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Now on Sale for $1,489.99
Im not holding my breath for this payoff...but sure do hope im wrong. :)
Prices are always way too high at first.
Bleeding edge?
Yes AMD cards seem to age better, but when you release the entire lifespan of the card terrible drivers with mediocre performance improvement it had better. The entire time you own the card it performs worse until two years later when most people upgrade then its even...that's not a good thing.
I'm sorry amd is still sucking up a second place spot. Ryzen's platform is still buggy as hell, IPC equals haswell while multithreading equals skylake and clockspeeds trail sandybridge. The new vega fe stuff is half ass workstation wishful thinking cards bandaided through benchmarks by a broken driver and the dreams of those that waited for release. The rx vega stuff better at least best the 480 in power to performance or we will be looking at some dinosaur tech with pumped clocks and tdp just like the last 5 big performers from AMD.
Take the blinders off and look around. We are talking about a series that has a broken driver, consumes more power than TWO 1070's and barely edges out one. Your posts are a damn joke.
Back then the excuse was 'it's fine, AMD GPUs can run hotter than Nvidia's, they always do'. Should have seen the amount of people that bought the stock versions and put them up for sale no more than a few weeks after that, it was crazy. And that wasn't just mining cards either. Hawaii was so shit, even YOU bought a 980.
Following that miserable display, AMD took its time to rebrand the same expensive, large chip and sell it off again for a lower price (great business strategy, similar to Pitcairn which was re-used what, 4 times?). You tell us 'look how good it is, they can use it twice'. But all I see is a super inefficient design that gets re-used because there simply isn't any TDP budget left to scale it up further.
Hence Fury X was born. And we know how that panned out. Overpriced HBM that requires a separate driver branch as well, stretching AMDs resources further. And, to top it all off, they release it with a crappy AIO and a high speed fan, making the water cooled halo card noisier than its direct competitor, directly after Hawaii's launch issues. It's so bizarre, you couldn't make it up yourself.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/liquid-cooled-amd-radeon-pro-vega-frontier-edition-power-draw-tested.235266/
Still, we most all keep waiting for the mighty Vega.
Even though I have a Corsair AXI 1kw psu, I sure don't want all that extra heat in my room. We'll see what happens, I unlike Rej won't make a choice and then go back on it. I may buy a Vega card, may end up with another 1080 or 1080ti.