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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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#5655402 Posted on: 03/29/2019 11:17 AM
In fact, even given the sparse applicability, an optimist may even think the next WHQL driver release could coincide with Windows 10 19H1 and include hardware based DXR support.
Good stuff. If gtx cards can get it we can get it too.
In fact, even given the sparse applicability, an optimist may even think the next WHQL driver release could coincide with Windows 10 19H1 and include hardware based DXR support.
Good stuff. If gtx cards can get it we can get it too.
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Vega was released just over a year ago, and AMD has had more than enough sales due to mining. Further, both the RX 400 and 500 series of cards must share many production similarities to chips used in current consoles, so AMD must have had significant production level benefits and no shortage of demand. Clearly, it is neither logical nor reasonable to assume AMD are losing money, while not considering actual financial indicators or the long term impact of their decisions.
Looking forward, my understanding is that Vega remains a very relevant architecture, partly due to its compute capabilities. Of course, only time will tell what direction AMD takes in light of current policy of concentrating on its significant mid range presence in the gaming industry. However, I would be both surprised and disappointed if AMD decided to hold back much longer from recent industry wide advancements, although recent news coming out of the company and other significant players (Radeon Rays 3.0, Windows 10 19H1 DXR, Crytek etc.) suggests at least some counter balance to competing products is very likely on the horizon.
In fact, even given the sparse applicability, an optimist may even think the next WHQL driver release could coincide with Windows 10 19H1 and include hardware based DXR support.