No, my R9 270 is still good enough for me.
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No, my R9 270 is still good enough for me.
My Fury X is still serving me well (at 2560*1440 60Hz), so I'll hold off until Navi I suppose. Replacing GPUs every two years just seems silly and wasteful. Not to mention that I just built a custom CPU+GPU water loop a few months ago, and I really don't want to drain and disassemble that any time soon. Then again, the water cooling plus the 1600X I got alongside it drained any semblance of a PC upgrade budget I might have.
too slow :(
Well judging by this thread AMD should be embracing the miners - at least they will actually buy Vega.
No. My Asus STRIX GTX970 handles my 1080p gaming & other needs just fine still. Also, whenever I get round to my next upgrade cycle (no time soon) I won't be spending any more money on the next graphics card than I did on my current one.
Depends on reviews of the rx vega 56.
I'm thinking of a thread-ripper hyper converged build where my ZFS-SAN and XEN VM system converge with my workstation.
VEGA would be spot on depending on performance and a dam site cheaper than a Quadro. PCI Pass through that's the ticket.... GTX is a no go here.
As for power consumption, for me I'm hoping to go from three systems; One SAN/ZFS/SCST + XEN system, one VMware 6.x and a Windows PC; to a single system... Vega still should save power.
Time will tell if a 256GB ram system can be done with a good RAM frequency. It may end up being two new systems.
No.
Why would I want to spend £500-£550 on a card that will be completely outclassed by Nvidia's Volta range only 6mths or so after I'd actually be able to buy a Vega AIB card in (Sep/Oct)?
Vega = too late and for what they are in late 2017, the 56 and 64 are a $100 overpriced.
If the recent leaks about the RX Vega 56 prove correct, then yes, but only if there's a third party version with a decent cooler at under £400. Wife already have me her full blessing (where we discuss large purchases together).
My main concern is that, if I wait, miners will skyrocket prices 50-100%, especially if it does prove to be a mining beast. I honestly wish that retailers were forced to limit sales to one per customer to help mitigate the risk of miners buying all the stock.
I still believe that even the RX Vega 56 is overpriced and wish they'd drop the official price $50-100, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I have to accept it's going to launch overpriced and get more expensive from there.
I do feel RTG should also make cheaper RX Vega 48 and 40 models, but I'm guessing that volumes aren't so great that they have enough chips for this, sadly.
I've just upgraded the rest of my system to Ryzen and have a FreeSync monitor, so I'm kind of inclined to buy one. Currently on a R9 390 and even a 580 offers little improvement over it. Not enough to warrant the price. But the prices seem a little steep.
I wouldn't be too afraid of pairing Nvidia with FreeSync, since any GPU can still run the monitor at 144Hz and I haven't found FreeSync to be a huge deal personally.
Not really. I got Radeon 380 at the start of 2016. Game I play the most? Faster Than Light.
Yes I am considering it..
Yes my 290x does have the occasional fps problem at 1440p
They just took too long.