AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

[GreenOrbs]

Eh, depends on what your perspective is. From a purely technical perspective, yeah, AMD's offering is much less impressive than what NVidia has. But from a consumer point of view, you get 1080 performance at a lower price, in return for crazy high power consumption. It's a tradeoff, albeit not one I personally would make.

If you're the kind of person who could put up with Fermi back in the day, this might be the card for you.

Not sure that this holds true. 1080 performance at a lower price?

RX Vega 64 Air Cooled (at $600):
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137225

GTX 1080 (at $500):
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125880

$100 more, much more power consumption, and no crossfire support at launch. Looks to me like you pay more for less with the Vega 64. The Vega 56 looks a lot better in that it beats the 1070 in performance by a few percent, consumes much less power than the 64, and is reasonably priced compared to the 1070.

 

[Tweak155]

Vega 64 is even worse than expected. It eclipses even BD in terms of failure. Full note jump to finfets and yet the manage to loose performance/watt. That's really an achievement. I can only repeat. This i swhat you get when you fire your good, expensive crew and replace them with cheap hires. "If you think experts are expensive, wait and see what amateurs will cost you".

I really dont like NV but at this point, I can't come up with any reason to buy an AMD GPU. RX480/580 barley beat my 290x and 1070/1080 are plain superior to Vega.

I like your quote, it seems to bite a lot of companies in the ass.

 

[Rifter]

Vega 64 is even worse than expected. It eclipses even BD in terms of failure. Full note jump to finfets and yet the manage to loose performance/watt. That's really an achievement. I can only repeat. This i swhat you get when you fire your good, expensive crew and replace them with cheap hires. "If you think experts are expensive, wait and see what amateurs will cost you".

I really dont like NV but at this point, I can't come up with any reason to buy an AMD GPU. RX480/580 barley beat my 290x and 1070/1080 are plain superior to Vega.

Pretty much, i was going to go vega but thats not happening, and 1070/1080 have been out so long now, maybe ill milk my 480 for all its worth and wait out volta. seems to be the logical thing to do now.

 

[LTC8K6]

Pretty much, i was going to go vega but thats not happening, and 1070/1080 have been out so long now, maybe ill milk my 480 for all its worth and wait out volta. seems to be the logical thing to do now.

NV could delay Volta now...

 

[Rifter]

NV could delay Volta now...

Nows not the time to wait now is the time to drive home the dagger and go for a death blow. If NV launches a Volta thats 20%+ faster than 1080Ti in next 6-12 months then AMD is done in discreet GPU space, period. Like game over pack bags and go home done.

 

[Tweak155]

Nows not the time to wait now is the time to drive home the dagger and go for a death blow. If NV launches a Volta thats 20%+ faster than 1080Ti in next 6-12 months then AMD is done in discreet GPU space, period. Like game over pack bags and go home done.

It seems likely NVidia doesn't even view AMD as competition anymore as-is. If anything, it is likely beneficial for NVidia to have AMD around to show how superior their platform is.

I was hoping for a good AMD product as I've been holding out for quite some time, but I don't think they've brought enough to the table unfortunately. I may still get Vega 56, but no way I will be opting for Vega 64.

 

[UglyDuckling]

Nvidia will just milk their mid range Volta as top of the line performing and price it so, mean while AMD is twiddling their thumbs with their next architecture plans.

Since Fermi the tables have slowly turned.

 

[ElFenix]

I'm closing this thread, please use the review thread for all your Vega needs

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-56-reviews-updated-aug-14.2515492

AT Moderator ElFenix