Thursday, May 18th 2017
Raja Koduri: You Can Use Vega Frontier Edition for Gaming; But You Should Wait
In a blog post detailing AMD's Vega Frontier Edition graphics card, which we covered in-depth at the time of its announcement in AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2017, AMD's Radeon Technologies Group head Raja Koduri clarified that current machine learning poster child, the Vega Frontier Edition GPU, can also be used for gaming (who's to say some researchers, or pioneers, as AMD is so fond of calling them, won't be visiting Talos 1 themselves between coffee breaks?)
However, it is Raja Koduri's opinion that you should wait for Vega's gaming GPUs, since the Frontier Edition is "optimized for professional use cases (and priced accordingly)", and that if you want to game on AMD hardware, you should wait "just a little while longer for the lower-priced, gaming-optimized Radeon RX Vega graphics card." He then threw in a free "You'll be glad you did," as if Vega hasn't been a long, long time coming already.
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AMD Vega Frontier Edition
However, it is Raja Koduri's opinion that you should wait for Vega's gaming GPUs, since the Frontier Edition is "optimized for professional use cases (and priced accordingly)", and that if you want to game on AMD hardware, you should wait "just a little while longer for the lower-priced, gaming-optimized Radeon RX Vega graphics card." He then threw in a free "You'll be glad you did," as if Vega hasn't been a long, long time coming already.
61 Comments on Raja Koduri: You Can Use Vega Frontier Edition for Gaming; But You Should Wait
So justify it however you want. Indeed the 1080 Ti is the strongest gaming card (Besides the Quadro P6000, Titan XP, Radeon Pro Duo, and within a month the Vega Frontier).
75% more performance, for 300% the cost; and it will likely be defeated within 3 months by either a stronger Vega or Volta card. Enjoy throwing away your money to play 4K at 50 FPS.
Games that do not
So that is 16 reviewed games to 5, that exceed 60FPS, if we dig further into your claims we will find that the P6000 isn't faster in games without a modified driver, the Titan X pascal is slower and the Titan Xp is within a couple FPS, this would show what a modified driver P6000 could do since it is actually the same card sans ECC memory.
We could also take your claim of "although the Fury X is still great at 4K if you just lower a couple of useless settings" and end up with every single game exceeding 60FPS. As a person with two Fury's and two RX480's I can say thanks to the worthlessness of multi-GPU, the 1080Ti performs better. I don't know and you don't know the performance of the Vega lineup, but from what has been rumored the most we can hope for from the rumor mill is an equal of the Ti. Which by your own admittance isn't that impressive. Again I have been playing this game a while and played with quite a few of these cards. I do not lightly make claims based by biased articles read off of rumor mill pages.
$700 of still turning down settings :D