No1 AMD fan is not impressed with Vega performance reveal.

I've expected this too. It's Fury X all over again.

It is high end meaning that, there will be only 1 Vega variance at launch. The so called bigger Vega is probably going to arrive later. Very late.

My expectation on Vega is clear. If they price it right, maybe in between 1070-1080, it put enough pressure for Nvidia to lower their 1080 price, and release the 1080ti to take back the performance crown.

If Vega is up against 1080 in term of pricing, well AMD is not saint as everyone thought.

This post has been edited by ruffstuff: Jan 13 2017, 02:16 PM

The problem is, 1080 is not even a flagship. It is a flagship in price, but it is like 3 to 4 skus below the 'Flagship'. Last 3-4 yrs back, nvidia has always releasing the full fat chip as the highest end gpu. But now, since it is lack of competition from AMD, they can release their 3rd or 4th best as the 'flagship'.

As for targeting the mainstream, AMD is not even dominated. They are not focusing the high end, because they don't have the high end chip ready on time. That was just an excuse to me for saying we are focusing on the volume market. Nvidia has equally the same share on that segment as well. And they have all segment covered. RX480 is not that cheaper compare to the equivalent 1060. They are not pricing their mainstream card aggressively. It just another option to consider if you don't like nvidia.

Vega FE doesn't come with professional certification and validation that comes with a hefty price.

So it is not a 'Pro' card. FE is just AMD try to buy sometimes before RX Vega.

Is Vega diffused at the GloFO or TSMC? I wonder what cause the high TDP. I think the blame is on GloFo?

AMD Ryzen doesn't have the bad TDP, but it suffers the clock speed limitation due to manufacturing limitation under GloFo.

Maybe they use 2 different fabs to package the chip.

Vega FE is not a gaming card. And it is also true for RX Vega 64.



This post has been edited by ruffstuff: Aug 19 2017, 07:55 PM