Friday, July 14th 2017
Liquid Cooled AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Now on Sale for $1,489.99
The liquid cooled version of AMD's latest graphics card meant for the "pioneering crowd" of prosumers has been made available over at SabrePC. It sports the exact same GPU you'd find on the air-cooled version, featuring all the same 4096 Stream Processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory. The only differences are, and you guessed it, the higher cooling capacity afforded by the AIO solution, and the therefore increased TDP from the 300 W of the air-cooled version to a eyebrow-raising 375 W. That increase in TDP must come partially from the employed cooling solution, but also from an (for now, anecdotal) ability for the card to more easily sustain higher clocks, closer to its AMD-rated 1,630 MHz peak core clock.
You can nab one right now in that rather striking gold and blue color scheme, and have it shipped to you in 24H. Hit the source link for the SabrePC page.
Sources:
SabrePC, Computerbase.de
You can nab one right now in that rather striking gold and blue color scheme, and have it shipped to you in 24H. Hit the source link for the SabrePC page.
96 Comments on Liquid Cooled AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Now on Sale for $1,489.99
Dude chill, anyone can see that RezJor is the AMD fanatic here. No use to discuss this any more. Even if RXVega sucks bad he will still find excuesses to spin it otherwise.
Only if you knew the true numbers... ;)
The only benefit on power consumption you'll get is somewhat less bandwidth-shoveling which might lower total consumption on the VRAM but not by much.
You don't see any game where power consumption increases on Maxwell or Pascal where they can't or don't use TBR. You just won't get optimal performance.
Again, TBR and DSBR are for alleviating bandwidth issues by decreasing the amount of time the path to VRAM is saturated. You are minimizing data movement. It's not a miracle cure for power consumption that some suggest it is.
In this case, we are teased with a 375W card that cant match a 1080ti (rumor)...
...maybe its priced like a kids meal though, making it palatable, if those performance results hold true. :)
Vega RX might 'just' situationally in DX12 and well optimized games touch on stock 1080ti performance, and AMD is going to market that as the 1080ti killer, while everyone knows the truth. Its 980ti vs Fury X all over again, mark my words.
However, people treat RX Vega like it's literally just a shrunk R9 Fury X where drivers would be ready from day 1. Just Ctrl+F for "R9 Fury X" and replace it with RX Vega X. When you have an all new core, things don't just appear there. You need to write software for it. And that takes time. More than they initially expected apparently. Few of us seem to understand that, 99% of people just entirely disregard it. Sometimes I just don't understand people...
People keep dissing AMD, but AdoredTV quite nicely predicted this with the "AMD's master plan" video. AMD is releasing and rolling out seemingly incoherent innovations that don't contribute much to their current state, but long term, it's a stream pouring on their mill. And their mill only.
AMD APU's in laptops and consoles are now a norm, giving developers priority for AMD since they are literally developing for their hardware, their Mantle literally replaced entire OpenGL so to speak, DX12 followed Mantle and its fundamental ideas, pushing multicore CPU's on the masses with Ryzen, incorporation of Infinity Fabric for massive parallel systems on the cheap with Infinity Fabric soon finding its way into GPU's. AMD is creating a massive ecosystem that might not benefit them now or in 3 years, but it'll benefit them greatly long term as they gain more and more control of the industry. They may not have a massive GPU market share on PC from graphic cards. But do you know how many consoles are sold? Both, PlayStation and Xbox carry AMD tech. And Nintendo as well though I'm frankly not following them much so I'm unsure. Things like this matter too. And they matter a lot.
So far, their mill is spinning pouring their own water on it, but, many of the catches on the mill were leaking like a sieve. AMD isn't a company that can afford to keep looking too far ahead in the future IMO. They need to deliver better results now, like with Ryzen... finally in the ballpark on IPC... but again, the core thing... people swore up and down quad core was where its at around the Q6600 days.... and here we are, now just BARELY recommending 4c/8t CPUs for a rig lasting 3 years+. Seems like with Vega... 375W and behind a 1080Ti performance wise (likely), and way behind in power use.... wasn't HBM supposed to power power use (it did... but.... yeah...). Those are the big things people hold on to. Again, its neat, those things you describe, but, really, from the items I mentioned, in the scope of this thread, people seem to care about more.
Many eggs are in few baskets and their gambles haven't seem to have paid off yet... Ryzen is great because its cheaper, not because it has more cores or is faster. Vulkan is great in the few titles that use it with not a lot of adoption happening. HBM isn't needed until 4K where .86% of people use (according to steam)... and even there, it isn't needed. GDDRX5 is doing a more than serviceable job there. So again, ahead of its time and I don't see many payoffs.