AMD Releases Beta Driver Specifically Geared for Blockchain Compute

[cdawall]

Considering the outcome of RX Vega cards, at least miners will maybe buy them if gamers won't...

Well that's a different tune from two weeks ago. Card not quite perform how you expected?

 

[Dimi]

4990 NOK paid.
Which is where GTX1070 is somewhere from 4500-5000 kroners.
the gtx1080 is 5200+++

You are getting ripped off. In my expensive european country, a 1070 can be had for 4050 Kroners (in stock, readily available).

 

[ZoneDymo]

Behold AMD, the self-proclaimed herald of PC videogaming!

Assuming you actually know what "self-proclaimed" means, got a link to that?

 

[HD64G]

I have a feeling nVidia will push some "special" driver for their Ti, Titan and Quadro cards, which in theory, should smoke any AMD ones....

AMD just fixed a problem with their GPU behavior on ethereum mining when the epoch DAG increases its size. They didn't find any new technique to increase their pefrormance more than what they reached until early 2017. nVidia didn't have this "bug" in their drivers, so they will do nothing about. Only Vega arch is white board atm regarding its max potential in mining cryptos.

 

[xkm1948]

Well that's a different tune from two weeks ago. Card not quite perform how you expected?

The all mighty Vega supporter bought a 1080Ti, need we say more. He only supports AMD with his mouth. That is all. After this no one will take him seriously when the Navi hype train comes by.


On topic. So AMD is Advaned Mining Devices now huh?

 

[oxidized]

Assuming you actually know what "self-proclaimed" means, got a link to that?

Do you need me to explain you the joke? Are you really at this level?

 

[RejZoR]

Well that's a different tune from two weeks ago. Card not quite perform how you expected?

No, the card performs quite as expected. The pricing doesn't. There is no way in hell I'm paying 800€ for Vega 64 AiO when I can get one of the beefiest fastest GTX 1080Ti's for 20€ less. I mean, elementary school math...

 

[etayorius]

Anyone have issues with these drivers under win7 x64? i already tried it 3 times in a row uninstall and reinstall them using DDU in safe mode each time... all seems to work fine after installation, but once you reboot and try to open Radeon Settings the window locks up... you can`t really use Radeon Settings and if you try to mine eth with claymore the miner crashes. Going back to 17.7.2 fixes all the issues and i can start mining all fine again and use Radeon Settings... can anyone confirm?

 

[ZoneDymo]

Do you need me to explain you the joke? Are you really at this level?

The "joke" is that AMD is not focusing on gamers seemingly with this driver update but on miners.
But the entire joke hinges on your claim that AMD said they were the "herald of PC videogaming"
Without that claim being real the entire joke falls apart Im afraid.

Its like reacting to an article about a new 4 wheel drive Ford and saying "Behold Ford, the self-proclaimed herald of 4 wheel drive"
If Ford never claimed to be the "herald of 4 wheel drive" then there is no joke here.

 

[AsRock]

Uh... Thanks AMD?... I thought you were trying to get your cards in to the hands of GAMERS not miners. So that was just a big lie?

Shit happens, they failed, so next best thing is to take advantage of what they do have.

Maybe with some luck this will make AMD some extra money.

Sure it sucks but shit we can do about it and even if they were as good as nVidia the prices would be silly anyways soon.

 

[Eric3988]

Congrats, AMD, for not stabbing gamers in the back, but right in the face. By all means sell all of your hardware to miners who will probably get 3 cards for the price of 1 after the 2 RMAs they put in from running their GPUs at 110% load for 24/7. Why should gamers try to buy your products anymore when you're clearly producing MINING cards and not GPUs that over-promise and under-deliver on gaming performance?

@RejZoR

Congrats on the TI. When did you take the plunge and buy one?

 

[oxidized]

The "joke" is that AMD is not focusing on gamers seemingly with this driver update but on miners.
But the entire joke hinges on your claim that AMD said they were the "herald of PC videogaming"
Without that claim being real the entire joke falls apart Im afraid.

Its like reacting to an article about a new 4 wheel drive Ford and saying "Behold Ford, the self-proclaimed herald of 4 wheel drive"
If Ford never claimed to be the "herald of 4 wheel drive" then there is no joke here.

Go watch all the latest press conferences on every launch product they ALWAYS claimed "gamers" could count on them, that their focus went to them, that every choice they made, they made thanks to gamers, and for the good of gamers, all the "better-red" "poor volta" and the rest of the stupid propaganda, was everything with "gamers" in mind.
And after all this, here's what you get.

 

[_Flare]

ok, AMD has officially given up making good and efficient gaming-cards, i´m not surprised at all.

AMD Lisa Su: "We focus on what we are good at." gaming NO - mining YES

 

[cdawall]

No, the card performs quite as expected. The pricing doesn't. There is no way in hell I'm paying 800€ for Vega 64 AiO when I can get one of the beefiest fastest GTX 1080Ti's for 20€ less. I mean, elementary school math...

Sure. You screamed for months that you were going to buy one, it was going to be the greatest AMD rara. Nice opinion change.

 

[snakefist]

Ehm, when NV 10x0s launched, they costed as they do now, didn't they? There was no FE edition, stab in the back to AIBs?

What 'gamer' expects is:
- AMD stuff is 10x0 (TI) killer, even on old games
- it cost much less than NV offering
- it also consume much less (sighs deeply) power, and cools the room in the summer and heats it in winter
- it actually poisons miners, so they buy zero cards
- it rewards gamers richly, by expensive gaming bundle

Oh, and all of it happens within 3-4 days (unlike 10x0 launch).

It's quite realistic expectation, I'd say.

 

[oxidized]

Ehm, when NV 10x0s launched, they costed as they do now, didn't they? There was no FE edition, stab in the back to AIBs?

What 'gamer' expects is:
- AMD stuff is 10x0 (TI) killer, even on old games
- it cost much less than NV offering
- it also consume much less (sighs deeply) power, and cools the room in the summer and heats it in winter
- it actually poisons miners, so they buy zero cards
- it rewards gamers richly, by expensive gaming bundle

Oh, and all of it happens within 3-4 days (unlike 10x0 launch).

It's quite realistic expectation, I'd say.

No, polaris was fine, and wasn't anything you said.

 

[dozenfury]

Well more accurately, this driver fixes the bug in the AMD driver that would cause the 480's mining performance to gradually but significantly decline starting in the next few DAGs. It's not really a driver that improves mining performance, it just resolves the issue that would have soon lead to very decreased performance.

6 or half-a-dozen I know, but it's not like it took the cards from 25 to 30 or 35 MH/s. It's just making cards running at 25 MH/s not drop to 15 MH/s in the next month due to the bug.

 

[RejZoR]

Sure. You screamed for months that you were going to buy one, it was going to be the greatest AMD rara. Nice opinion change.

It was all of you calling me an AMD fanboy for being optimistic and now everyone is shocked that I opted for GTX 1080Ti. You know, being optimistic and not jumping to conclusions before more info is known doesn't equal to being a fanboy or hater... I did wait for release date and gathered all the numbers. Was looking and deciding for 3 hours. And then decided for GeForce. I don't see it as shocking the slightest, I just did what all of you were raving about, value for the money. But, whatever...

 

[oxidized]

It was all of you calling me an AMD fanboy for being optimistic and now everyone is shocked that I opted for GTX 1080Ti. You know, being optimistic and not jumping to conclusions before more info is known doesn't equal to being a fanboy or hater... I did wait for release date and gathered all the numbers. Was looking and deciding for 3 hours. And then decided for GeForce. I don't see it as shocking the slightest, I just did what all of you were raving about, value for the money. But, whatever...

I don't mean to attack with this post, but the fact that you bought a 1080ti at the end, doesn't really prove anything, you just had no choice, and it's what people is mainly (me included) upset for, you just have no choice, and often when you do it's just better to pick nvidia, i'm sure that if there was a card from AMD that was, slightly slower than a 1080ti, same price, or maybe slightly more, and consumed a bit more than the 1080ti (so the 1080ti is still the winner, slightly but still), you would've chosen AMD nonetheless. This time what happened was that AMD had no 1080ti response, they only had a 1080 response, which is 100% worse than a 1080, so, what i'm saying is, that, unless you have no choice, or there's but it's so much worse, there's not even the slightest intention for you to choose nvidia over AMD.

 

[danbert2000]

uhm why is that ?
Vega is a compute card, not gaming card.
Volta is a compute card too but pascal isnt..

I think game devs will go towards compute stuff more and more in the future, but I may be wrong.

Vega is a compute card, so somehow it's poor gaming results are okay?

This bullshit again...

 

[oxidized]

Vega is a compute card, not gaming card.

This bullshit again...

It's not what they advertised, and not what they kept advertising, during the launch week, and for the days afterwards.

 

[RejZoR]

I don't mean to attack with this post, but the fact that you bought a 1080ti at the end, doesn't really prove anything, you just had no choice, and it's what people is mainly (me included) upset for, you just have no choice, and often when you do it's just better to pick nvidia, i'm sure that if there was a card from AMD that was, slightly slower than a 1080ti, same price, or maybe slightly more, and consumed a bit more than the 1080ti (so the 1080ti is still the winner, slightly but still), you would've chosen AMD nonetheless. This time what happened was that AMD had no 1080ti response, they only had a 1080 response, which is 100% worse than a 1080, so, what i'm saying is, that, unless you have no choice, or there's but it's so much worse, there's not even the slightest intention for you to choose nvidia over AMD.

All I can say is LOL to this. "Oh, so you bought GTX 1080Ti. That doesn't change anything! You're still an AMD fanboy." That's one hell of a hot take. XD Same for the "You had no choice". Yeah, when you're not actually a fanboy, between same priced cards where one consistently has like what, 30-40% higher performance, yeah, there really isn't any choice when you're a rational person and not a fanboy despite everyone yelling at you that you are. Besides, I bought it for myself, from this point on, I frankly couldn't care any less what any of you thinks. If this still makes me an AMD fanboy with GTX 1080Ti in the system, then so be it lolz. It's just hilarious as f**k to read such oxymoron nonsense...

 

[oxidized]

All I can say is LOL to this. "Oh, so you bought GTX 1080Ti. That doesn't change anything! You're still an AMD fanboy." That's one hell of a hot take. XD Same for the "You had no choice". Yeah, when you're not actually a fanboy, between same priced cards where one consistently has like what, 30-40% higher performance, yeah, there really isn't any choice when you're a rational person and not a fanboy despite everyone yelling at you that you are. Besides, I bought it for myself, from this point on, I frankly couldn't care any less what any of you thinks. If this still makes me an AMD fanboy with GTX 1080Ti in the system, then so be it lolz. It's just hilarious as f**k to read such oxymoron nonsense...

Whatever man

 

[cdawall]

All I can say is LOL to this. "Oh, so you bought GTX 1080Ti. That doesn't change anything! You're still an AMD fanboy." That's one hell of a hot take. XD Same for the "You had no choice". Yeah, when you're not actually a fanboy, between same priced cards where one consistently has like what, 30-40% higher performance, yeah, there really isn't any choice when you're a rational person and not a fanboy despite everyone yelling at you that you are. Besides, I bought it for myself, from this point on, I frankly couldn't care any less what any of you thinks. If this still makes me an AMD fanboy with GTX 1080Ti in the system, then so be it lolz. It's just hilarious as f**k to read such oxymoron nonsense...

You can't see far past your ego can you?

No, polaris was fine, and wasn't anything you said.

We are seeing some areas that it wasn't the absolute best in. Memory controller performance being one. What is funny to me is AMD released a "flagship" card and it quite honestly looks to have the same issues. What is strange to me is it doesn't have the compute performance to pull out of the slump this time. I really question what goes through their heads sometimes. I was pretty excited for these cards. Thanks AMD.

 

[ValenOne]

I don't mean to attack with this post, but the fact that you bought a 1080ti at the end, doesn't really prove anything, you just had no choice, and it's what people is mainly (me included) upset for, you just have no choice, and often when you do it's just better to pick nvidia, i'm sure that if there was a card from AMD that was, slightly slower than a 1080ti, same price, or maybe slightly more, and consumed a bit more than the 1080ti (so the 1080ti is still the winner, slightly but still), you would've chosen AMD nonetheless. This time what happened was that AMD had no 1080ti response, they only had a 1080 response, which is 100% worse than a 1080, so, what i'm saying is, that, unless you have no choice, or there's but it's so much worse, there's not even the slightest intention for you to choose nvidia over AMD.

Vega 64 has more support for DirectX12 features, hence it has some positives over GTX 1080.