MSI marketing director: AMD RX Vega "needs a damn lot of power"

[HEXUS]

Power consumption is expected to max out at around 300W for the air cooled cards.

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

For goodness sake why do all the websites reporting this report only half the conversation on that forum??

Specs Vega RX seen. Discounting what power is needed.
We are working on it, that's a start so launch gets closer

That aint a positive sign.

Depends what kind of performance you sure get back

https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum...54713#51654713

[sykobee]

Don't forget the follow up comment (google translate)

The Source
Specs Vega RX seen. Discounting what power is needed.
We are working on it, that's a start so launch gets closer

laurens91
that is not a good omen.

The Source
Depends what kind of performance you sure get back

[Corky34]

Doesn't Nvidia rate the Titan Xp at 250W TDP not the 275W stated in the article.

Either way the Vega RX is almost certainly going to draw more power, at least going on the 8+8 versus 6+8 for the Titan Xp, I'm more interested in what performance you get for that extra power though.

EDIT: Looks like OCUK have pre-order listing for the Air Cooled (£1199.99) and Liquid Cooled (£1799.99) versions.

[Xlucine]

300W isn't huge for an MSI GPU

Going by the 50W delta between the MSI model and the 250W reference card

Doesn't Nvidia rate the Titan Xp at 250W TDP not the 275W stated in the article.

Either way the Vega RX is almost certainly going to draw more power, at least going on the 8+8 versus 6+8 for the Titan Xp, I'm more interested in what performance you get for that extra power though.

EDIT: Looks like OCUK have pre-order listing for the Air Cooled (£1199.99) and Liquid Cooled (£1799.99) versions.

Frontier edition is a fancy professional version, like an Nvidia quadro

[Corky34]

I thought the professional versions from AMD normally used the Pro nomenclature, I'm not saying it's not BTW.

Maybe I'm just getting confused with this article as the table lists the specs for the frontier edition, blonde moment probably.

[shaithis]

I thought the professional versions from AMD normally used the Pro nomenclature.

Nothing lasts long before a re-brand these days

[lumireleon]

SO this means Nvidia Volta will wipe AMD Vega on the floor both in performance and efficiency?

[lumireleon]

Another thing: is Nvidia tensor cores a threat to AMD?

[anselhelm]

If it's giving 1080 Ti or higher performance, it's a non-issue. If it's only 1080 performance, then it's highly inefficient.

My biggest concerns are price (for the lowest-end model available at launch) and the stock cooler. If it's anything like the Frontier edition cooler, we're in for a hot and loud time. If it's a decent cooler like the one on the RX 580, then there'll be no issue.