Thursday, June 22nd 2017
Radeon RX Vega Needs a "Damn Lot of Power:" AIB Partner Rep
AMD is dragging its feet with the launch of its next performance/enthusiast segment graphics card based on the cutting-edge "Vega 10" silicon, the Radeon RX Vega. The last we heard, the company is announcing the product late-July/early-August, along the sidelines of SIGGRAPH 2017. The company already put out specifications of the first consumer product based on this silicon, the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition; and according to listings by online retailers, its power figures aren't looking good. The air-cooled version has its TDP rated at 300W, and the faster liquid-cooled variant 375W. This is way above the 275W TDP of the TITAN Xp, NVIDIA's fastest client-segment graphics card.
An MSI company representative posting on Dutch tech-forums confirmed our worst fears, that the RX Vega will have a very high power draw. "Specs van Vega RX gezien. Tering wat power heeft die nodig. Wij zijn er aan bezig, dat is een start dus launch komt dichterbij," said the representative who goes by "The Source" on Dutch tech forums Tweakers.net. As a gentleman scholar in Google Translate, and citing VideoCardz which cited a native Dutch speaker; the MSI rep's statement translates as "I've seen the specs of Vega RX. It needs a damn lot of power. We're working on it, which is a start so launch is coming closer."
Sources:
VideoCardz, Tweakers.net (forums)
An MSI company representative posting on Dutch tech-forums confirmed our worst fears, that the RX Vega will have a very high power draw. "Specs van Vega RX gezien. Tering wat power heeft die nodig. Wij zijn er aan bezig, dat is een start dus launch komt dichterbij," said the representative who goes by "The Source" on Dutch tech forums Tweakers.net. As a gentleman scholar in Google Translate, and citing VideoCardz which cited a native Dutch speaker; the MSI rep's statement translates as "I've seen the specs of Vega RX. It needs a damn lot of power. We're working on it, which is a start so launch is coming closer."
95 Comments on Radeon RX Vega Needs a "Damn Lot of Power:" AIB Partner Rep
they just throw gcn cores at the problem and fill in the blanks using buzzwords
Someone replied with "This is not a good omen" to which the TheSource followed up with "Depends what kind of performance you sure get back
I am not having much faith in Vega right now, just because of the delays...but I guess we'll all just have to wait and see.
on max we can use only for some test.. so calm down boys
I also don't believe the TDP figures are actual TDP, but the cooling specification AMD has demanded for the GPU.
They did the exact same thing with Ryzen - their 65W CPUs use 95W TDP coolers and their 95W CPUs call for 125W or better coolers.
... In other words, the air cooler is spec'd to 300W and the AIO is spec'd for 375W.
The GPU might only pull 275W.
Speak for yourself, if that's the only drawback, i'll be happy personally, thank you very much :)
p.s. Always happy to know that in accordance with our times, i have people think for me before me, lol
My 7970 only at 15w idle :/
That Gold version with the horrendous markup and 375W TDP did ring alarm bells, but hey lets see how it performs, if it flies along then some people will lap em up regardless.
I hope AMD pulls off vega, but I think the surprise performance gain of ryzen has led people to think vega is going to be a magical piece of silicon. RTG was dragging their feet for quite a bit, and they didnt have a Jim Keller for GPUs. I expect 1080 performance unless AMD pulled a rabbit from their hat.Considering the performance of the 480 per core at 1338MHz (the clock rate of the fastest 480), assuming VEGA is a 4096 core part( which is the most likely scenario) AMD would need a heck of an IPC jump to hit 1080ti levels of performance.
For comparison, Quadro GP100 is rated at 235W.
Are these the actual facts without any editorial embellishment?