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More Vega Frontier Edition Performance Numbers Surface
Earlier today new benchmarks of the AMD Vega Frontier Edition have surfaced. This round Ekin Tech got his hands on a Vega Frontier Edition, and in a live broadcast session they outted game performance numbers.
First a bit of a warning as the photos that you see are screenshots from that live-stream, so that's not the best quality to look at. Secondly these are FCAT FPS plots (50% is roughly what would be an average FPS) and thus can be a bit harder to grasp.
I also want to state very clearly that the the Radeon RX Vega Frontier Edition is not meant to be a gaming card whatsoever. However everybody is jumping on it as hey .. it's a Vega powered graphics card and we've been waiting for a year on some results right ? That does not imply or mean the results you see can be compared to what the consumer product will be like. The Frontier Edition is not intended to be a gaming card, hence the drivers have not been developed for it either (despite showing a gaming mode).
The card shines in some yet lacks in other benchnmark tests, at a resolution of 2560x1440, Vega Frontier Edition is close to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in Fallout 4. Then in Grand Theft Auto V it actually gets beaten by a GTX 1070, the same in The Witcher 3 but shows higher performance than a GTX 1070 in Hitman and Dirt Rally. So that last bit isn't really good news.
In Ultra HD 4K we see a totally different picture. The Vega FE matches the GTX 1080 mostly and closely in Dirt Rally and Fallout 4. In Hitman, the Vega FE is slower than the GTX 1080, 50 FPS versus 60 for the 1080.You'll see similar results for the Witcher 3.
Also good to note is that power consumption was measured and rated at 280 Watts, that is not that bad really. In the end though, everybody is hyped and excited. We do know that the final consumer parts will be clocked higher and will get actual proper drivers. Time will tell how good (or bad) Vega really is, but this should get you through the weekend I guess, have a good browse, click the thumbnails to see the full-size screenshots :)
Sources: Ekin @ Linus Tech Tips, PC Perspective YouTube Channel
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#5448202 Posted on: 06/30/2017 04:18 PM
Well if this card's game equivalent aka RX VEGA will be at the price point of gtx 1080 or near it will be a win for AMD. But if it is near 1080Ti's price point they are as good as doomed and closed. Nvidia will dominate more aggressively than before. The gap will be probably larger than last generation battle 980ti vs furyx.
Well if this card's game equivalent aka RX VEGA will be at the price point of gtx 1080 or near it will be a win for AMD. But if it is near 1080Ti's price point they are as good as doomed and closed. Nvidia will dominate more aggressively than before. The gap will be probably larger than last generation battle 980ti vs furyx.
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#5448205 Posted on: 06/30/2017 04:22 PM
As a RX480 user , il say this , i kinda knew all this would hapend when they stoped to hype VEGA , was 90% shure it will be a fail product , i really hope AMD next time would stop developing stupid product's VEGA was nothing but a money sink , they literaly burned money , why they had to bother with all the HBM2 still make's me mad, in stead they should have just focused to make a bigger refined polaris chip to beat @ least the 1080 but cheaper , but no they got stuborn with all the HBM2 crap , while NVIDIA milks the market whil normal gddr5 , i even lost all hope for NAVI to , i dout GPU division from AMD can do anything @ this point.
We will for shure have the same problem but with gpus that happend with cpu's , nvidia will lead for some year's to come while AMD will try to keep it's head above the wather .
I said two things back in August of last year I believe. One was, "It is looking like Vega does not work." The other was, "AMD needs to make a larger Polaris now." I was shunned (mostly because I have a Nvidia card in my sig) for these statements.
How dumb do those statements look now?
As a RX480 user , il say this , i kinda knew all this would hapend when they stoped to hype VEGA , was 90% shure it will be a fail product , i really hope AMD next time would stop developing stupid product's VEGA was nothing but a money sink , they literaly burned money , why they had to bother with all the HBM2 still make's me mad, in stead they should have just focused to make a bigger refined polaris chip to beat @ least the 1080 but cheaper , but no they got stuborn with all the HBM2 crap , while NVIDIA milks the market whil normal gddr5 , i even lost all hope for NAVI to , i dout GPU division from AMD can do anything @ this point.
We will for shure have the same problem but with gpus that happend with cpu's , nvidia will lead for some year's to come while AMD will try to keep it's head above the wather .
I said two things back in August of last year I believe. One was, "It is looking like Vega does not work." The other was, "AMD needs to make a larger Polaris now." I was shunned (mostly because I have a Nvidia card in my sig) for these statements.
How dumb do those statements look now?
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#5448208 Posted on: 06/30/2017 04:28 PM
Yeah right...
You really think this card is anyway different than regular Vega which will appear soon? It's the same card and I believe gaming mode is just switch to regular Vega driver which will be used in customer version.
The gaming mode is only here for that gaming develloppers can test their games without moving to another plateform ..
Yeah right...
You really think this card is anyway different than regular Vega which will appear soon? It's the same card and I believe gaming mode is just switch to regular Vega driver which will be used in customer version.
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#5448210 Posted on: 06/30/2017 04:29 PM
Then call it game development mode and don't put this on your website:
https://pro.radeon.com/en-us/product/radeon-vega-frontier-edition/
Or better yet, don't release a card with no clear target for what it should be used for.
The gaming mode is only here for that gaming develloppers can test their games without moving to another plateform ..
Then call it game development mode and don't put this on your website:
I Just Want to Game
If you want to game on a Windows® platform, get your driver here and switch to “Gaming Mode.”
If you want to game on a Windows® platform, get your driver here and switch to “Gaming Mode.”
https://pro.radeon.com/en-us/product/radeon-vega-frontier-edition/
Or better yet, don't release a card with no clear target for what it should be used for.
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As a RX480 user , il say this , i kinda knew all this would hapend when they stoped to hype VEGA , was 90% shure it will be a fail product , i really hope AMD next time would stop developing stupid product's VEGA was nothing but a money sink , they literaly burned money , why they had to bother with all the HBM2 still make's me mad, in stead they should have just focused to make a bigger refined polaris chip to beat @ least the 1080 but cheaper , but no they got stuborn with all the HBM2 crap , while NVIDIA milks the market whil normal gddr5 , i even lost all hope for NAVI to , i dout GPU division from AMD can do anything @ this point.
We will for shure have the same problem but with gpus that happend with cpu's , nvidia will lead for some year's to come while AMD will try to keep it's head above the wather .