Friday, March 17th 2017
AMD's Upcoming RX Vega Card Pictures Surface
It would seem that AMD has been making internal, top-secret demonstrations of its upcoming RX Vega GPUs. The company was in Beijing, China yesterday, sowing some thoughts and knowledge on its upcoming Ryzen 5 line of processors. Yet AMD apparently also found the time to tease its upcoming high-performance GPU (which apparently, and unlike it's competitors GPUs, also carries a soul.)
From what can be gleaned from the pictures, this physical manifestation of Vega does away with AMD's Fury X small size (achieved through water cooling). Instead, the coolers seems to be a monolithic piece which totally encloses the card, in an attractive, white and red color scheme with AMD's Vega branding etched on for good measure. We can also glean from the pics that AMD's RX Vega doesn't drop the tachometer feature that allows you to look at the operating LED's to glean the amount of workload on the GPU, with switches that are likely to allow for "OFF/ON" positions for the LED's and for "RED/BLUE" coloring.
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From what can be gleaned from the pictures, this physical manifestation of Vega does away with AMD's Fury X small size (achieved through water cooling). Instead, the coolers seems to be a monolithic piece which totally encloses the card, in an attractive, white and red color scheme with AMD's Vega branding etched on for good measure. We can also glean from the pics that AMD's RX Vega doesn't drop the tachometer feature that allows you to look at the operating LED's to glean the amount of workload on the GPU, with switches that are likely to allow for "OFF/ON" positions for the LED's and for "RED/BLUE" coloring.
94 Comments on AMD's Upcoming RX Vega Card Pictures Surface
It also doesn't beat the HEDT Intel chips across the board. Intel wins some and AMD wins some.
And at 1440p, there are still titles, Fallout 4 (i think) which show Ryzen desperately far behind Intel.
But anyway, way off topic, this is a Vega thread.
It's not an ideal gaming CPU, especially when the counterpart costs less or the same and the main thing you care about is gaming. 20 fps is a lot of difference in every game and even with a 60 hz monitor even because higher maximums are often followed by higher avgs and higher minimums.
Don't really give me that "You wouldn't need 20 fps more" bs, because it's not like you have 600+ fps in every game and 20 more or less make no difference, we're shy past 100 fps and those 20 fps are roughly 20% more, imagine a game which was so heavy it could take your 1700x pc down to 40/45 fps, wouldn't you use 20 fps more in that situation? Or imagine a monitor with more than 60hz...
Then if you want to talk which one is the best overall buy or value or more future proof, i can i agree as much as you want.
QUOTE="oxidized, post: 3623389, member: 170038" Then if you want to talk which one is the best overall buy or value or more future proof, i can i agree as much as you want.I still haven't seen a CPU that uses correctly more than 12 threads yet, so i don't know where you saw that
Personally, I don't buy systems and intentionally put a glass ceiling on my components if I can help it.
GTA doesn't use more than 12 threads last I recall...its using 8 on my 7700K.. I dont have it installed on the 6950X system.. to test, sorry.
EDIT: Doesn't scale well past 8 at least... :www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html
Look at 7700k with 100mhz more than the 1800x having almost 30fps more, yes it's 1080p, so we can expect the difference to thin as we go up, but we're still talking about min 10-15% difference and at those numbers 10-15% matter. Again, Clock and IPC is what matters most in CPUs, in every scenario, even core bound ones.
EDIT: I actually didn't take into account the boost of the 7700k so it's 4,5GHz, 400mhz faster than 1800X while playing games, but still...
But valid information I will get on TPU because I can compare here immediately with previous generation in games, 3D tests and to see expecting temperature.
On techpowerup is for me best for information about graphic cards and processors, memories, SSD, etc... PSU I check techpowerup and johnnyguru.