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Will You Be Buying Radeon VII ?

Will You Be Buying Radeon VII ?

  • Yes

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So now it's "matches or surpasses".
AMD's own estimates say it will be, on average, 30% faster than Vega64. Applying that with no grain of salt and looking at TPU's performance graphs, that would be still 5% slower than a FE 2080. You can translate that as a "match" (5% isn't something you'd feel), but surpass? I'll believe that when I see it.
I'm pretty sure that says "If" meaning maybe
 

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So now it's "matches or surpasses".
AMD's own estimates say it will be, on average, 30% faster than Vega64. Applying that with no grain of salt and looking at TPU's performance graphs, that would be still 5% slower than a FE 2080. You can translate that as a "match" (5% isn't something you'd feel), but surpass? I'll believe that when I see it.
amd's results for 7
https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/RadeonVII-vs-Vega64.jpg
vs
w1zz' zotac amp extirme (firts 2080 i've seen in reviews list)
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_RTX_2080_AMP_Extreme/6.html

sure tests are ran by amd but results are very close to what amd annouced at ces.
2 weeks left till 7 hit the shelves. revriews will be available soon enough
 
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So now it's "matches or surpasses".
AMD's own estimates say it will be, on average, 30% faster than Vega64. Applying that with no grain of salt and looking at TPU's performance graphs, that would be still 5% slower than a FE 2080. You can translate that as a "match" (5% isn't something you'd feel), but surpass? I'll believe that when I see it.

I have seen claims on r/AMD saying Vega64 undervolt overclocked faster than 1080Ti. So i am really not surprised any more by bold claim like OP’s

But yeah, let the final benchmark from reputable source do its job.
 
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amd's results for 7
https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/RadeonVII-vs-Vega64.jpg
vs
w1zz' zotac amp extirme (firts 2080 i've seen in reviews list)
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_RTX_2080_AMP_Extreme/6.html

sure tests are ran by amd but results are very close to what amd annouced at ces.
2 weeks left till 7 hit the shelves. revriews will be available soon enough

Pfoooh that is painful, painful indeed. Look at the consistency of those performance boosts. Its simply not there. This would immediately turn me away from Radeon VII if I were in the market. Half the benches in there show barely noticeable gains.

I have seen claims on r/AMD saying Vega64 undervolt overclocked faster than 1080Ti. So i am really not surprised any more by bold claim like OP’s

But yeah, let the final benchmark from reputable source do its job.

Hahah r/AMD is hilarious to read, right. It also has so many mea culpa topics... about Fury, about Vega... at least some fans are strong enough to admit they got it all wrong in the end :D
 

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The way I see it now, there really isn't a compelling reason to go with Radeon VII, in fact there are a few compelling reasons not to. Sure, I'm all for supporting the underdog, but at the same time AMD seems to be doing some pretty stupid shit with the Radeon VII.

First, they appear to only be allowing the reference design. It actually seems like they are actually going to be the only manufacturer(actually probably Sapphire), and all the AIBs will have to buy the cards from AMD and just slap their stickers on them. AMD has tried this in the past on their halo products, and it just doesn't work. It leads to increased costs and short supplies of the cards. AIBs don't really want to sell the cards, because there isn't much money in it for them.

On top of that, it seems the AIBs that do choose to sell the card will have to sell gimped versions of the cards that can't actually reach the maximum boost clock of 1800MHz. This seems shady to me.

Then there is the what we know for sure, and that is the card is going to use more power than the RTX2080, it will put out more head than the RTX2080, and it might match the performance, and it won't have ray tracing tech, all for the same price at the RTX2080.

If AMD had priced the Radeon VII $100 cheaper, it might be a compelling option. But even then, we know the RTX2080 is only selling for $699 because it has no competition, there isn't any reason for nVidia to sell it cheaper. So if Radeon VII was $100 cheaper than the RTX2080, chances are nVidia would just respond with a $100 price cut on the RTX2080 to make it competitive in price/performance again. But I think the problem is AMD is already selling the Radeon VII at the absolute minimum they can afford to. Reports are they are actually loosing money on every card but I don't believe that. I'm more inclined to believe they are either making no money on each card, or making a razor thin profit. So they had no choice but to sell it at the $699 price point.
 
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Pfoooh that is painful, painful indeed. Look at the consistency of those performance boosts. Its simply not there. This would immediately turn me away from Radeon VII if I were in the market. Half the benches in there show barely noticeable gains.
are you sure you are looking at the right graph?
cause what i see is that if you remove anomallies hitman 2 and faulout 76 performance boosts sits right between 20 and 30% with only 2 titles below 20% and at least 5 above 30%
 
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The only thing going for the Radeon VII is the 16GB of VRAM. I also don't think it's going to beat the 2080. Match it in a few games sure, but i think overal the 2080 is going to be the faster card. So unless you find a use for the extra 8GB of vram i don't see the point in paying the same for this card and getting the same or worse performance but much higher power use and heat output. So no i won't be buying one even if i could afford it, as I would prefer to try RTX in BF5 and Metro Exodus if i absolutely had to spend £650-700 on a video card.

Atm I am thinking either GTX 1660 (non Ti) or Navi at the $200~ price point to replace my 570.
 
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How does this help in gaming? Its a QHD card and few (any?) titles will reach 8GB there.
I mean it's the only potential advantage or selling point it has over the 2080. And btw you can use over 8GB quite easily with high-resolution texture packs. I think there was a memory leak in Fallout 4 HD texture pack and they fixed it but i remember hitting the 8GB on my Vega back then and stuttering because of it(without HBCC enabled). also in Far Cry 5 HD textures, both at 1080p(!). The way games are going the more VRAM the better in all honesty.

But anyway i wasn't arguing for the Radeon VII actually i was arguing against it lol, but stating a potential advantage it has.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
I mean it's the only potential advantage or selling point it has over the 2080. And btw you can use over 8GB quite easily with high-resolution texture packs. I think there was a memory leak in Fallout 4 HD texture pack and they fixed it but i remember hitting the 8GB on my Vega back then and stuttering because of it(without HBCC enabled). also in Far Cry 5 HD textures, both at 1080p(!). The way games are going the more VRAM the better in all honesty.

But anyway i wasn't arguing for the Radeon VII actually i was arguing against it lol, but stating a potential advantage it has.
Right.... but I'm saying it isn't an advantage for most users. Typical usage scenarios don't use texture packs and additions. Some do, but this is a minority. So there are cases for its use, just fringe. I would call it advantage for the few who can utilize it... :)
 
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I currently have a Vega 64 LC that I purchased on October 29 of 2017 at MSRP (Which was almost impossible at that time as right after that, either availability or inflated prices started to begin). I dropped the voltage from 1.150-1.250 to 11.00 and 1.200 as going lower would cause throttling due to lack of power to keep the default clockspeed (Seems that I got myself the very first batch of those Vega LCs edition). And raised the clockspeed to 2% and increased the power budget and fan curve to the maximum and never goes below 1,710-1,730MHz no matter what. (Haven't tampered with the HBM clocks yet). So I think that it won't be an upgrade worth of investment unless if AMD decides to release a fully unlocked Vega VII with all its 64 CUs functional. Vega is a strange animal, while its power hungry, you can tame it with undervolt and can drop its power consumption to amazing levels. Heck, my Acer Predator laptop has a Vega 56 clocking at 1,240MHz with the HBM at default 800MHz and does not go beyond 100W while playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider maxed at DX12 with 1080p native display resolution. AMD likes to overvolt their GPUs for the sake of yields.
 

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I currently have a Vega 64 LC that I purchased on October 29 of 2017 at MSRP (Which was almost impossible at that time as right after that, either availability or inflated prices started to begin). I dropped the voltage from 1.150-1.250 to 11.00 and 1.200 as going lower would cause throttling due to lack of power to keep the default clockspeed (Seems that I got myself the very first batch of those Vega LCs edition). And raised the clockspeed to 2% and increased the power budget and fan curve to the maximum and never goes below 1,710-1,730MHz no matter what. (Haven't tampered with the HBM clocks yet). So I think that it won't be an upgrade worth of investment unless if AMD decides to release a fully unlocked Vega VII with all its 64 CUs functional. Vega is a strange animal, while its power hungry, you can tame it with undervolt and can drop its power consumption to amazing levels. Heck, my Acer Predator laptop has a Vega 56 clocking at 1,240MHz with the HBM at default 800MHz and does not go beyond 100W while playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider maxed at DX12 with 1080p native display resolution. AMD likes to overvolt their GPUs for the sake of yields.
I'm pretty sure if vega would have run that well at lower voltages, AMD wouldn't have volted it as they did. If everyone undervolted, we'd get quite a number of unstable boards. I mean, if 8 out of 10 guy will report success undervolting, the audience would be amazed. But if AMD sold you undervolted cards that were failing 20%, that would be a crapstorm.
But hey, if it works for you, congrats, enjoy your card!
 
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I plan to run my current 1060 until 2020-2021 unless it fails. So not buying Radeon VII.
 
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I'm pretty sure if vega would have run that well at lower voltages, AMD wouldn't have volted it as they did. If everyone undervolted, we'd get quite a number of unstable boards. I mean, if 8 out of 10 guy will report success undervolting, the audience would be amazed. But if AMD sold you undervolted cards that were failing 20%, that would be a crapstorm.
But hey, if it works for you, congrats, enjoy your card!

Yeah, but the picture overall is confusing. AMD tamed Vega to cram it on a laptop on a 100 TDP that matches and outperforms the GTX 1070 laptop that uses similar power. But on the desktop, is different. While Vega 56 is faster as well, it also uses more power. Another example but on older generations, the R9 M290X on laptops, on a 75W power envelope, is just a desktop HD 7870 minus -50Mhz on the core clock, while the desktop version uses around 150-180W and offering 90% of its performance or more. Able to match and even outperform the GTX 780M on games (The GTX 780M is just a slightly underclocked GTX 680) Yet, in the desktop world, the HD 7870 never touched the GTX 680 and used almost similar power. I think that AMD overvolt their GPUs in order to maximize functional dies out of the waffer, unlike nVidia who sets the lower voltage possible on a specific SKU and any chip that does not conform to it, gets discarded. I haven't heard any reports of Vega 64s not being able to undervolt, is just that if you do, you will experience core clock decrease if its not done right, plus I am also sure AMD tried to maximize the clockspeed to remain competitive as its the main principle of the Vega architecture, which is kinda sad as the IPC is the same as Fiji, Pascal IPC is worse than Maxwell but they increased the clockspeed considerably to offset that, and Turing IPC is about the same or 6% slightly better. Seems that AMD GCN ran out of steam and nVidia's SMM approach is about to.
 

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That would be true but then why an undervolted Vega performs better than the stock voltage settings and why they managed to release a Vega 56 version on a laptop that uses 100W and is nearly as fast as the Vega 56 on desktops while using much less power?
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Yeah, but the picture overall is confusing. AMD tamed Vega to cram it on a laptop on a 100 TDP that matches and outperforms the GTX 1070 laptop that uses similar power. But on the desktop, is different. While Vega 56 is faster as well, it also uses more power. Another example but on older generations, the R9 M290X on laptops, on a 75W power envelope, is just a desktop HD 7870 minus -50Mhz on the core clock, while the desktop version uses around 150-180W and offering 90% of its performance or more. Able to match and even outperform the GTX 780M on games (The GTX 780M is just a slightly underclocked GTX 680) Yet, in the desktop world, the HD 7870 never touched the GTX 680 and used almost similar power. I think that AMD overvolt their GPUs in order to maximize functional dies out of the waffer, unlike nVidia who sets the lower voltage possible on a specific SKU and any chip that does not conform to it, gets discarded. I haven't heard any reports of Vega 64s not being able to undervolt, is just that if you do, you will experience core clock decrease if its not done right, plus I am also sure AMD tried to maximize the clockspeed to remain competitive as its the main principle of the Vega architecture, which is kinda sad as the IPC is the same as Fiji, Pascal IPC is worse than Maxwell but they increased the clockspeed considerably to offset that, and Turing IPC is about the same or 6% slightly better. Seems that AMD GCN ran out of steam and nVidia's SMM approach is about to.
They both do this for laptop type cards... This isn't anything new. Typically it is lower clocks and lower voltage to bring the TDP if not a slightly cut back card.

EVERY CPU and GPU I have ever owned is able to lower voltage a bit at stock speeds. This is not an uncommon thing at all.
That would be true but then why an undervolted Vega performs better than the stock voltage settings and why they managed to release a Vega 56 version on a laptop that uses 100W and is nearly as fast as the Vega 56 on desktops while using much less power?
Because it is able to boost higher and doesn't run into its power/temp thresholds. The key word here is "NEARLY" as fast. Typically its about a card level down laptop GPU vs discrete namesake.

See above for the rest...
 
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The Vega 56 laptop version does not support boost at all, is just fixed at 1,246MHz.
 

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Yeah, but the picture overall is confusing. AMD tamed Vega to cram it on a laptop on a 100 TDP that matches and outperforms the GTX 1070 laptop that uses similar power. But on the desktop, is different. While Vega 56 is faster as well, it also uses more power. Another example but on older generations, the R9 M290X on laptops, on a 75W power envelope, is just a desktop HD 7870 minus -50Mhz on the core clock, while the desktop version uses around 150-180W and offering 90% of its performance or more. Able to match and even outperform the GTX 780M on games (The GTX 780M is just a slightly underclocked GTX 680) Yet, in the desktop world, the HD 7870 never touched the GTX 680 and used almost similar power. I think that AMD overvolt their GPUs in order to maximize functional dies out of the waffer, unlike nVidia who sets the lower voltage possible on a specific SKU and any chip that does not conform to it, gets discarded. I haven't heard any reports of Vega 64s not being able to undervolt, is just that if you do, you will experience core clock decrease if its not done right, plus I am also sure AMD tried to maximize the clockspeed to remain competitive as its the main principle of the Vega architecture, which is kinda sad as the IPC is the same as Fiji, Pascal IPC is worse than Maxwell but they increased the clockspeed considerably to offset that, and Turing IPC is about the same or 6% slightly better. Seems that AMD GCN ran out of steam and nVidia's SMM approach is about to.
Neah, it's not confusing at all. Vega just doesn't scale as AMD needed it to. They needed to have an entry in the high end so they pushed the architecture out of its sweetspot. That explains why it works at lower clockspeeds, but to match Pascal it needs to burn through like 50% more power. The trouble is, AMD can't scale it down for the desktop because of HBM.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
The Vega 56 laptop version does not support boost at all, is just fixed at 1,246MHz.
Better binned then. There are reasons.

That is also 200+ MHz behind the desktop version.. makes sense it can undervolt and reach those clocks... that is more in its sweetspot.

As bug said, these cards are pushed close to their limits to reach higher clocks and performance thresholds. This is why they use so much power as they are out of their sweet spot.

Again, all cards/cpus I had (dozens upon dozens over the last 20 years) will undervolt this is nothing new and nothing to correlate from at the same time. :)

I don't think they will
Any support for that, or just a hunch from the belly of Durvelle? :)

It is only rumors (from websites), but again, this is a cut down $1500 card. While some of that cost is in the additional support of a pro card, not all of it is. If they are making anything off of these, it isn't much.
 
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Better binned then. There are reasons.

As bug said, these cards are pushed to their limits to reach higher clocks and performance thresholds. This is why they use so much power as they are out of their sweetspot.

Again, all cards/cpus I had (dozens upon dozens over the last 20 years) will undervolt this is nothing new and nothing to correlate from at the same time. :)
The question here is whether they can undervolt and maintain the same level of performance. Obviously, not all Vegas would do that, but it's great that many seem to.
 

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How does this help in gaming? Its a QHD card and few (any?) titles will reach 8GB there.
At my resolution if I crank all settings and enable HD textures I can definitely surpass my VRAM on my 2070
The way I see it now, there really isn't a compelling reason to go with Radeon VII, in fact there are a few compelling reasons not to. Sure, I'm all for supporting the underdog, but at the same time AMD seems to be doing some pretty stupid shit with the Radeon VII.

First, they appear to only be allowing the reference design. It actually seems like they are actually going to be the only manufacturer(actually probably Sapphire), and all the AIBs will have to buy the cards from AMD and just slap their stickers on them. AMD has tried this in the past on their halo products, and it just doesn't work. It leads to increased costs and short supplies of the cards. AIBs don't really want to sell the cards, because there isn't much money in it for them.

On top of that, it seems the AIBs that do choose to sell the card will have to sell gimped versions of the cards that can't actually reach the maximum boost clock of 1800MHz. This seems shady to me.

Then there is the what we know for sure, and that is the card is going to use more power than the RTX2080, it will put out more head than the RTX2080, and it might match the performance, and it won't have ray tracing tech, all for the same price at the RTX2080.

If AMD had priced the Radeon VII $100 cheaper, it might be a compelling option. But even then, we know the RTX2080 is only selling for $699 because it has no competition, there isn't any reason for nVidia to sell it cheaper. So if Radeon VII was $100 cheaper than the RTX2080, chances are nVidia would just respond with a $100 price cut on the RTX2080 to make it competitive in price/performance again. But I think the problem is AMD is already selling the Radeon VII at the absolute minimum they can afford to. Reports are they are actually loosing money on every card but I don't believe that. I'm more inclined to believe they are either making no money on each card, or making a razor thin profit. So they had no choice but to sell it at the $699 price point.
I mean if the reference cooling is adequate why should it matter. I mean with the 2080 AIB cooling barely offers much cooling headroom above the reference triple fan design.
 
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