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AMD drops price on Radeon RX Vega 56 to Battle GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
As the title says, AMD is lowering the price on their Radeon RX Vega 56 to Battle GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. Starting today you'll see prices in the £249 / 285 EUR ranges for that still pretty dandy graphics card. You get three games as well.
These discounts could be regional, so I am not certain where on the globe it will take proper effect. Here's a press release:
Gamers looking for the best performance in today’s most popular AAA titles, from Apex Legends to Tom Clancy's The Division 2, need look no further than theAMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card. Offering high-end performance and incredible features with an attractive price tag, the GPU is now available from £249 on eBuyer and OCUK.
Today’s top titles require increasing amounts of memory to deliver the performance, hyper-realistic settings and life-like characters gamers demand. With 8GB of HBM2 memory, the RX Vega 56 is purpose-built to power the most demanding titles. Harnessing the advanced AMD Vega GPU architecture, the RX Vega 56 also features:
- Rapid Packed Math doubles the rate of compute to allow for faster physics and compute calculations on RX Vega GPUs.
- Shader Intrinsics allow direct game-to-hardware access on RX Vega cards to extract more performance from the GPU.
- Radeon FreeSync display technology brings an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate, while FreeSync 2 HDR ensures low-latency, high-brightness pixels and a wide color gamut to High Dynamic Range (HDR) content for PC displays.
Further sweetening the deal, with AMD’s Raise the Game Fully Loaded bundle,
Gamers who purchase a Radeon RX Vega 56 or eligible Radeon RX Vega 56 powered PC will receive complimentary PC versions of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Tom Clancy's The Division 2, three of 2019’s most anticipated titles.
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#5655284 Posted on: 03/29/2019 01:05 AM
You underestimate vega56 performance. With a little tweaking card is reaching card is reaching 1080and vega64. Yes, it uses more power but thats a fair trade i would say.
Vega56 can smash 1660ti left and right.
Nice video
MSI Geforce GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS OC for the win! Uses little power, very quiet, overclocks like a champ, handles any game at 1080p with high settings, and will only get better with future drivers. There is absolutely no point in buying a Vega card.
You underestimate vega56 performance. With a little tweaking card is reaching card is reaching 1080and vega64. Yes, it uses more power but thats a fair trade i would say.
Vega56 can smash 1660ti left and right.
Nice video
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#5655288 Posted on: 03/29/2019 01:19 AM
You underestimate vega56 performance. With a little tweaking card is reaching card is reaching 1080and vega64. Yes, it uses more power but thats a fair trade i would say.
Vega56 can smash 1660ti left and right.
Nice video
Sorry but I have to respectfully disagree.
You underestimate vega56 performance. With a little tweaking card is reaching card is reaching 1080and vega64. Yes, it uses more power but thats a fair trade i would say.
Vega56 can smash 1660ti left and right.
Nice video
Sorry but I have to respectfully disagree.
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#5655338 Posted on: 03/29/2019 06:29 AM
Vega did perform well against the 1070 and 1080, sure. But timing-wise it was a disaster, being released over a year later than its competition. AMD lost big time on that, and a big chunk of 290/290x owners got tired of waiting and went to Nvidia.
Polaris for one, and why not Vega? Vega did what it needed to to, perform against the 1070 and 1080 which it did.
Vega did perform well against the 1070 and 1080, sure. But timing-wise it was a disaster, being released over a year later than its competition. AMD lost big time on that, and a big chunk of 290/290x owners got tired of waiting and went to Nvidia.
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#5655387 Posted on: 03/29/2019 11:08 AM
Regarding Polaris and Vega it's worth remembering that for a not insignificant part of their lives, especially early on, it was impossible to get a card based on either architecture at anything approaching a reasonable price due to mining. Many of those cards probably won't show up in the Steam survey anytime soon I wager.
I firmly believe that, everything else being equal, Nvidia would outsell AMD regardless but the mining situation surely did not help.
We may have enjoyed a long time where the RX 570/580 have been the clearly superior choice to the GTX 1050/1060 but this was at the tail end of both architectures and I doubt most of the sales happened during the second half of last year and up to today.
Regarding Polaris and Vega it's worth remembering that for a not insignificant part of their lives, especially early on, it was impossible to get a card based on either architecture at anything approaching a reasonable price due to mining. Many of those cards probably won't show up in the Steam survey anytime soon I wager.
I firmly believe that, everything else being equal, Nvidia would outsell AMD regardless but the mining situation surely did not help.
We may have enjoyed a long time where the RX 570/580 have been the clearly superior choice to the GTX 1050/1060 but this was at the tail end of both architectures and I doubt most of the sales happened during the second half of last year and up to today.
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MSI Geforce GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS OC for the win! Uses little power, very quiet, overclocks like a champ, handles any game at 1080p with high settings, and will only get better with future drivers. There is absolutely no point in buying a Vega card.