Monday, March 13th 2017
Vega Shows Up Beating a GTX 1080 in CompuBench, But Hold the Hypetrain
The Vega based line of AMD GPUs are definitely a big unknown at this point, so any sightings or benchmarks of it are highly sought after by the rumormill. Well, here is another one to add to your pile of rumor-material folks: AMD has posted a card benchmark to Compubench that bests even the GTX 1080.
Why hold the hype?
There are two obvious issues. One, this is a compute only benchmark, and has little relevance to the average gamer. Two, in the same benchmark, a 980TI also beats the 1080. Stranger yet, the 1080 is also beaten by its little brother, the 1070. Take this one with a grain of salt, for the obvious reasons. It won't stop the the hypetrain from using this info to its own end, but maybe you can avoid being smashed by it by using some critical thinking.
PS: If you don't like me telling you how to think, please note this was properly marked as an editorial. You may board the train of your choosing at the next exit. Good luck on reaching your destination.
Source:
HotHardware
Why hold the hype?
There are two obvious issues. One, this is a compute only benchmark, and has little relevance to the average gamer. Two, in the same benchmark, a 980TI also beats the 1080. Stranger yet, the 1080 is also beaten by its little brother, the 1070. Take this one with a grain of salt, for the obvious reasons. It won't stop the the hypetrain from using this info to its own end, but maybe you can avoid being smashed by it by using some critical thinking.
63 Comments on Vega Shows Up Beating a GTX 1080 in CompuBench, But Hold the Hypetrain
Oh wait, it was someone else.
And what do they class as "performance"?
Meanwhile, im going to continue enjoying >and amd combo performance that ive had for two years now. Welcome to 2015, amd.
Zen is flat out not what it needed to be. It is not ready to endure the same lifespan of abuse that the fx line did, and amd intends to cycle it through the same way.
Btw, here's a brief history of cpus ive owned:
K6-II
Thunderbird 1300
Axp 1700+
Axp 2500+
A64 (4 different speeds)
A64 II
Sempron (a64 based)
Phenom II
Fx 8350
P4 wilamette
2500k
3570k
5820k
4x xeon e5-2640