gtx 1080 or vega 1080 1070 or waiting
for 1080 ti bill switch to investing in a new build
1080p wait for vegas wait for rx vega
wait for navi so at gtc last year
we expected to get AMD vega in early
2017 but as the slide helpfully points
out the timeline was subject to change and change it did it is now
august but today we finally find out
was vega worth the wait
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meet vega or more accurately rx vega 56
and 64. the consumer versions of the
vega founders excuse me frontier edition cards that
launched back in june of this year it's named for the number of next-gen compute
units on board if we compare it against the frontier edition we can see that
we're on par for compute units on vega 64 but we've got about half the video
memory at eight gigs and our clocks are a little lower much lower in vega 56's
case but like that card and one of the likely reasons behind the delays they
both have hbm2 memory the newest
revision of the blazing fast memory that first debuted on AMD's own fury cards
back in 2015 which both does and doesn't
feel like a long time ago depending on how you look at it anyway
aside from actually basically everything
new to vega is a tile-based rendering mode that AMD calls the drawstream
binning rasterizer a feature similar to what NVIDIA implemented on maxwell that
AMD tells us will improve performance without any extra work from game
developers let's meet the lineup for today we've got vega 56 both air and
liquid cooled flavors of rx vega 64 and the gtx 1070 and 1080 that their pricing
puts them up against and we'll be treating all three cards to our
mainstream gaming platforms from both the red team and the blue team at the
top end we immediately see the vega 64 liquid cooled card pull out into a
comfortable lead though this quickly changes in rise of the tomb raider where
the gtx 1080 overruns it moving a tier down while the vega 56 significantly
widens and closes these gaps on the 1070
at times appearing like a kind of 1070 ti this theme of trading blows seems to
take place across all of our gaming benchmarks and our synthetics tell a
similar tale so if you're an AMD fan who wanted to see competition you're going
to be happy but if you wanted AMD to blow the doors off NVIDIA
well you might be a little disappointed you'll be more excited about the
productivity applications in cinebench r15 blender and adobe media encoder we
see a clear trend favoring even the air cooled rx vega 64 over the gtx 1080
something that we're not entirely surprised by but we're happy to see
considering AMD's traditional strength in general purpose GPU tasks
unfortunately another point of divergence is power consumption the rx
vega 64 is an absolute hog when it comes
to power to say nothing of the liquid cooled version and thermal performance
isn't much better for the air cooled vega 64 either with the heaviest
throttle out of any of the cards we tested
you actually need both eight pin power
connectors for these cards ouch
with that said the value proposition here is still pretty compelling our air
cooled rx vega 64 is quite close to the gtx 1080 founders edition in gaming
while the liquid cooled variant is a better performer but one that's
ultimately held back a little by its higher price tag
for productivity and gp GPU though rx
vega really shines of course the same is true of the excellent productivity
performance of rx vega 56 but the real
story is gaming holy balls we're actually doing pretty great at this
price especially since we couldn't even find a gtx 1070 for less than about
430 dollars though with that said the
value argument of the entire vega lineup
is pretty complicated because the higher end cards may not be purchasable without
AMD's value-added bundle so we're talking a discount on a ryzen 7 a free
sync monitor and some free games that seems to add about a hundred dollars to
the price though AMD says it's worth 420
dollars so the question really becomes
vega 56 looks pretty good with or without the bundle depending on whether
you want that stuff that's part of AMD's strategy to deter coin miners from
buying these cards but at the very high end the vega 64 liquid cooled at 6.99
with rebates and games that one becomes a tougher sell but feel
free to tell us if we're wrong in the comments below so conclusion then the
wait is finally over vega might bear
more similarity to the performance and power consumption profile of NVIDIA's
last generation maxwell architecture when it comes to gaming tasks but the
good news is that it's enough to be in the conversation for high-end GPU buyers
and those poor folks with high resolution free sync monitors that now
finally have a real option for a graphics card to drive them the only
thing remaining then is to see what NVIDIA has up their sleeves with volta
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