What are you doing while you wait for Vega?

[SithSolo1]

Still truckin' along on my R9 290 w/ dual monitors. Its good enough for what I'm playing for the time being.

That said once Vega hits I'm thinking about retiring the 290 and switching to a single ultrawide monitor.

 

[tential]

Wouldn't it make more sense to wait for Volta? Considering that Nvidia managed to create this huge performance gap per die size/transistor this generation purely on clockspeed increases, with nearly no architectural changes over Maxwell, next generation's gap between Nvidia and AMD will likely be even wider than this generation.

Also I think missing from the DX12 AMD vs Nvidia comparisons is the fact that Pascal has about 10% more overclocking headroom (currently) than AMD.

No since those waiting for Vega could have also just purchased pascal.
There are reasons people are waiting for a highend amd replacement card

This does lead me to another interesting question. Will anyone not buy Vega if Nvidia has a new architecture on the horizon when Vega is our (2-3 months) or if Vega comes out with fury x levels of performance relative to nvidias highend card.

I want to say it doesn't matter to me, but I may skip gaming for awhile if the Vega card doesn't perform well. Just like with fury x, I can't buy a flagship gpu that just isn't that great.

I have a Freesync display (BenQ XL2730Z). Used to run a 390X but it was far too hot and loud for my tastes, so I sold it and replaced it with a 1070 a few months ago. I don't miss freesync at all, as my FPS is so dramatically higher than the 390X could manage.

I think it would be a rather foolish decision to replace your 8GB 390's with 4GB Fury cards - even at the ancient 1080P resolution, games are pushing above 4GB. Now that NVIDIA's cards have 8GB, developers will obviously increase VRAM usage to take advantage of it.

I want to side grade but like you've said, that vram... I wouldn't recommend a gtx 1060 3gb, I wouldn't recommend fury x vs the 980ti, I wouldn't recommend a 1060 vs the 480 so I just can't get behind fury even at firesale prices.

Actually I'd say, it was hard to get behind fury when the 300 series had 8gb of vram. Vram constraints suck.

 

[severus]

I see absolutely no point in upgrading from my 280x at the moment. I play Battlefield 1 at high settings at 1080P with over 60FPS constant with my overclocked i5. I play GTA V on top settings with smooth gameplay, no stutters. I can max out all the competitive games I play like CS:GO and Guild Wars 2 WvW/PvP. In fact, I normally play CS:GO at 800x600 because the models are larger so it's easier to see people for competitive play. When I think I can get 3-4x the performance for around $200 then I would upgrade. If I can get a Fury for around $200 I'd probably buy that since 4GB of HBM will hold me off for at least another 3 years. I rarely play the "latest games." Other than CS:GO and Guild Wars 2 the only new games I've played since 2013 are Battlefield 4, 1, Wolfenstein New Order, Doom and GTA V. Doesn't make sense to spend more than $200 on a graphics card for a game.

If games were unplayable on old hardware, it would make sense. When I went from my Athlon XP with a 9800 Pro to my C2D 8800GT machine, I had to because I couldn't even play Bioshock, Crysis or TF2. Same thing happened when I went from C2D to i5 GTX 470. BF3, Rage, and F.E.A.R. 3 were unplayble on the core 2.

In 2016, the PC gaming market targets the lowest common denominator so more games can be sold, hence little reason to upgrade your hardware unless you want to play at Ultra on some ridiculously high resolution. I also don't see the point of going more than 1080p. The models are already too small as it is if you're a competitive gamer. You want large models so you can more easily target hitboxes. I went with a BenQ Xl2411Z 24" 1080p 144hz Freesync monitor for that reason. A close friend of mine works in the AMD GPU division up in Toronto and he said I'm probably looking at Q1 for Vega but tests look like it's going to crush current offerings, that's all he could say. I don't mind waiting 6 months since other than BF1 there is no new game coming out that I'm interested in

 

[tential]

I'd imagine most people in this thread waiting for Vega are not 1080p gamers.

Me, I will buy a 4k monitor for Vega. I would have the Wasabi mango or qnix monitor already but I want the gpu first to drive it obviously

 

[zinfamous]

I'd imagine most people in this thread waiting for Vega are not 1080p gamers.

Me, I will buy a 4k monitor for Vega. I would have the Wasabi mango or qnix monitor already but I want the gpu first to drive it obviously

I think so, as there are enough solid 1080p options out there right now (though maybe not 144hz...but I think the 1070 takes care of that well enough, no?).

I'm at 1080p/60 now, but kinda waiting for Vega to see if it's a reasonable excuse to go up to 1440/100-144hz or so.

I mostly do want to upgrade my display for general reasons, though (it's not bigly enough ), so that pretty much informs my need to upgrade the GPU.

 

[Midwayman]

Keeping on trucking with my r9 290. Lower settings and frames than I'd like in bf1. I got used to 100fps in bf4 and really need it for my blur reduction monitor to work well. I'm really hoping for 1080 gtx levels of performance, but with a much better dx12 implementation.

 

[Erenhardt]

Trolling forums.
Why asking?