vega's power draw...

lol, I don't think so though?
I think the power draw is making the gamers to be worried, not miners because most miners are dependant on "free electricity"

This post has been edited by lolzcalvin: Aug 17 2017, 12:46 PM

I have heard about that before, because miners are getting a large number of GPUs hence the power consumption is overwhelming and some would need and resort to "free electricity" to widen the cost to benefit ratio. and the question on how do they get "free electricity"...

plus the fact that along the line Pascal is the one architecture which saw an exponential growth in performance. when jensen huang introduced Pascal, Volta architecture was included in the presentation roadmap chart showing another exponential increment.

tbf, 7900 XTX is quite priced well in malaysia. it's the 2080 Ti price. neck-to-neck raster performance with 4080. that or you choose to pay for the RTX tax for 4080 on gaming.

you need to ask yourself what kind of games you're going to play.
- are you going to play MW2? 7900 XTX.
- you love to play souls like games? meh, 7900 XTX.
- you play Apex, CSGO, <insert any competitive game here> and want a high end card which generates absurd amount of frames? go for whichever the cheaper one, which is 7900 XTX.

then ask yourself whether if you're going to use the card other than gaming.
- you do render works (hobby/professionally) with cycles, arnold, v-ray, redshift etc? any NVIDIA card, 3000 series and above.
- you train your ML models with PyTorch (again hobby/professionally)? play around with TensorFLow? any NVIDIA card, 3000 series and above.
- video editing works? 7900 XTX is extremely competitive here now, but 4080 still has a teeny little bit of extra edge.
- streaming? NAVI 31 now includes hardware AV1 encode/decode, means it's again extremely competitive against Ada's NVENC AV1. but still, NVIDIA has an edge on H.264 and 265.

in some senses, AMD is catching up NVIDIA on a few workloads but still lacking behind on the rest especially renders, the difference is miles apart. but if you're using it for pure gaming + AV1 streaming, I don't see why 7900 XTX is a bad choice, considering it's RM1k cheaper (to even 2k if you compare AIB models in the near future, don't forget 4080 ROG Strix sells at ~RM8k!)

to give AMD benefit of the doubt, as usual the gang who falls into blatant fanboyism overhyped the card and went as far as claiming the rasterization of it to match 4090 and creating arbitrary charts like this trash: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ylfg8...this_what_were/ (don't forget listening to ̶t̶e̶c̶h̶t̶u̶b̶e̶r̶s̶ trashtubers like Moore's Law Is Dead)
they were expecting it to be superb that give NVIDIA a tough beating, and eventually let themselves down simply because the card is good, not SUPERB, and that AMD is a company, not your friend.

yeah, thus don't buy amd reference card 😁
grab sapphire, xfx those. asus tuf has extremely great cooling too. this is the case where AIBs shine over reference models, unlike NVIDIA FE which directly competes with them hard.

then that's unfortunate. I didn't check the prices and didn't think nitro+ would sell almost upwards of 1k compared to the reference. too bad, AMD shot themselves in the foot here in Malaysia have to stand corrected when I praised the MSRP pricing a few weeks ago.

NVIDIA also charges higher. basically regardless of brands Malaysia will always end up charging more. even so AMD has factories here. supply chain's a bitch.
7900 XTX begins at $999, exact conversion rate would be 4.4-4.5k (minus other duties and taxes). here it's 5199.
4080 begins at $1199, it'd be 5.3-5.4k. here, it's 6300. right now 4080 has more stocks than 7900 xtx; I've been noticing some AIB models are selling below official MSRP.

no
as disappointing as it may sound, mid-end GPUs this generation all suck, including rx7600, 4060 and 4060ti

all using 128 bit bus and 8GB VRAM, which could be found in rtx 3050, yes, a 3050, just clocked slightly higher

better go find 6700xt or 2nd hand 6800xt

This post has been edited by lolzcalvin: Jul 20 2023, 06:36 PM

7700xt/7800xt depending on ur budget
1080p 144hz at max settings