Question Should I grab a cheap Vega before high end navi in 2020?

[Flayed]

I think the strike price for Vega 64 is between $250-300 and $200 for Vega 56. Newegg had a gigabyte Vega 56 the other day for $250. Otherwise, I would wait for what the Navi cards look like.

Your prices for Vega look a little optimistic to me, by around $50. The cheapest I've seen on sale here is £250 and £350 for 56/64 although it could be down to US/UK prices I guess.

 

[Hans Gruber]

Your prices for Vega look a little optimistic to me, by around $50. The cheapest I've seen on sale here is £250 and £350 for 56/64 although it could be down to US/UK prices I guess.

Here is the link to the article where those $$$ come from for Navi.

Those Vega numbers were my own numbers. They are optimistic. I also think that they need a Vega VII with 8GB or ram as well. A lower priced model than the 16GB version.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasone...vidia-rtx-2070-for-500-computex/#7079b322613b

 

[Stuka87]

With the Navi keynote being over, Vega56/64 makes sense if its CHEAP. But Navi will be a better card in every way except for price.

 

[Flayed]

With the Navi keynote being over, Vega56/64 makes sense if its CHEAP. But Navi will be a better card in every way except for price.

That's true. Price is important though if it wasn't an issue I would be rocking a 2080ti.

 

[Wuzup101]

I bought a Vega FE about 2 months ago for $300 (used on ebay). I've been happy with it so far, but I removed the stock cooler because that thing was annoying as all hell trying to keep it cool. I don't plan to keep it long, but it's fun to tinker with.

 

[DrMrLordX]

@Wuzup101

$300? I'm surprised you got one for so little. Hope you do better with the drivers than I did. They were a headache.

 

[Wuzup101]

@Wuzup101

$300? I'm surprised you got one for so little. Hope you do better with the drivers than I did. They were a headache.

I just got lucky with a best offer, listed price was $400. I assume it was an ex mining card, as the guy had several of them for sale.

Drivers are a headache (specifically having to load an old driver version for multi driver, swapping to gaming, and then updating so I can maintain the use of wattman). Knowing what I know now, I would not advise anyone who wants one for gaming to purchase an FE specifically, but a regular vega, sure. That being said, after the drivers are sorted, I haven't had any issues with the card itself, and with wattman I can maintain stock clocks with a significant undervolt (p7 = 1060mv).

Really my main issue with FE is that AMD seemingly stopped supporting the dual drivers (gaming/pro) like right before I bought it, and I didn't realize that. I'm not 100% sure that I would have gone FE had I known that, but I also didn't really want to spend more than $300/400. So for about $400, I got the card, a morpheus ii vega, and 2 noctua redux 1700rpm 120mm fans. Temps are better than the stock cooler, and noise difference is night and day. That stock cooler has a default fan max of like 2000rpm IIRC, but you can set it to 4900rpm. Sounds like a jet engine with otherwise stock settings as it tries to maintain 1600mhz boost clock. Now it's basically silent as it's not even hitting a high enough temperature to max out the noctuas on the morpheus ii.

Definitely not a perfect solution, but it does the job.