Wednesday, April 26th 2017
AMD Radeon Vega in the League of GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp
In an AMA (ask me anything) session with Tom's Hardware community, AMD desktop processor marketing exec Don Woligrosky answered a variety of AMD Ryzen platform related questions. He did not shy away from making a key comment about the company's upcoming high-end graphics card, Radeon Vega, either. "Vega performance compared to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp looks really nice," Woligrosky stated. This implies that Radeon Vega is in the same league of performance as NVIDIA's two top consumer graphics SKUs, the $650 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and the $1,200 TITAN Xp.
It is conceivable that AMD's desktop processor marketing execs will have access to some privileged information from other product divisions, and so if true, this makes NVIDIA's recent memory speed bump for the GTX 1080 a failed gambit. NVIDIA similarly bumped memory speeds of the GTX 1060 6 GB to make it more competitive against the Radeon RX 580. Woligrosky also commented on a more plausible topic, of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync becoming the dominant adaptive v-sync technology, far outselling NVIDIA G-Sync.
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Tom's Hardware
It is conceivable that AMD's desktop processor marketing execs will have access to some privileged information from other product divisions, and so if true, this makes NVIDIA's recent memory speed bump for the GTX 1080 a failed gambit. NVIDIA similarly bumped memory speeds of the GTX 1060 6 GB to make it more competitive against the Radeon RX 580. Woligrosky also commented on a more plausible topic, of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync becoming the dominant adaptive v-sync technology, far outselling NVIDIA G-Sync.
196 Comments on AMD Radeon Vega in the League of GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp
That's what I see in NV strategy, which last year shows flawlessly.
1070, 1080, Titan X(pascal) 1080TI, Titan Xp new. Think of the price tags on those when released.
I'm optimistic Vega will indeed perform as well as the title says. If AMD plays there cards right and price it in the under $500 mark its a win win for use the consumer.
I'm rooting for ya AMD so bring on the power and its OK if power usage is higher then some want. I can afford the extra dollar a month running it lol
Vega doesn't have to surpass 1080ti in performance. It has to keep the good FPS level in 2k,4k screens with modern games. Low power has practically no value for me since I can afford to pay for it where I live. Low price and performance delivered is what matters here. At least for me. And of course future potential which I can see in better colors than NVidia's cards.
Anyhoo, thats good news if true as i pegged it to be between 1080 and 1080ti...wait... what? Was that a joke???? You must be new... im earthdog...great to meet you... now look around the forums a bit and see the pleathora of dissapointment from amds marketing we have seen.
Rumored die size makes it bigger than gp102 and it's on a little bit denser manufacturing process of GF, so there's more transistors/mm² too. But that does not tell much, vega might just have fatter shaders for fp64 and compute(If amd have not take nvidia way to make two chips one vega for compute and other vega for gaming).
Well we can only wait and see(and try to filter hype out of the rumors).
To me, what happens at the top is rather irrelevant, I'm only interested in what trickles down to midrange. But for someone buying high-end, judging by this guy's words, high-end Vega isn't going to be an upgrade reason.
Then there was the Nvidia fanboy who bragged about how his GTX 1080 which he overclocked to 2,000+ mhz was better than the AMD Radeon RX Vega. What a fuckwit. Who in their right mind would run their GPU clock so fast on a continuous basis. The Vega card was an engineering sample most likely running with a conservative clock playing Doom. I saw 70-80 fps continuous with an occasional dip to 60 fps running 4k on ultra settings. Not shabby at all.
I can go on and on particularly on how DX12 and Vulkan favour AMD and how DX11 favours Nvidia. Just more absolute rubbish.
AMD RX Vega could either...
Perform amazing on par or exceed the GTX 1080ti
or NOT!
End Analysis! ;)
When AMD's Raja Koduri took to the stage during the unveiling of the RX 480 to say that, with two of them in Crossfire, they were faster than Nvidia's GTX 1080 and would cost far less. Everyone was intrigued.
Maybe two VEGA gpus can looks really nice compared to 1080Ti and Titan?