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Sapphire Launches Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Graphics Card

ironcerealbox said:
1) Cool - but some are interested in consumption of kilowatts of electricity to make money. You might not be interested but, again, there are others who are.
2) Cool - but look up the definition of insecurity

Just tired of you constantly spewing your vitriol here. You seriously have nothing to do but to respond to every article with your opinions and only your opinions are correct. Seriously though, you are too easy to bait and you just proved that point to me (and possibly others).
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Spewing my vitriol. BWAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA. dude, this is a forum. It exists solely for this purpose pal. For people to comment, express opinions, disappointments or excitements. How often would you visit a forum that gets staff news posts and then... zero comments of any kind? That's what we call a dead forum. As for me commenting anything I'm interested in, what the F is that of any of your concern? If you don't like my comments, that's your problem, not mine. As for insecurity, I have no clue what the hell are you even implying there. I know what it means, I just don't know what the F you want to tell me with that.
 
cdawall said:
So serious question how does selling more product, slow down an industry? Wouldn't that increase gross income/margin since they are selling at higher rates, which would entice a manufacturer to increase performance/release new products?
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Might as well grind all this product in a huge grinder, since it doesn't increase target audience amount. If anything, it prevents new ones from joining.

About increasing performance, its not like a third company will rise in the gaming market and present huge mining numbers. all NVIDIA\AMD have to do is come up with cards that mine 5% faster than previous gen and they will be bought out. At least that's what going on right now. What kind of an incentive to grow you have if your target audience can't even reach your product. Will you, as NVIDIA, launch a new line up of volta cards right now? Hell no, it can keep rotting on its shelf like it has been for the last year or so.

Preventing the launch of a new product line is the dictionary definition of a slow down for me.
 
dj-electric said:
Might as well grind all this product in a huge grinder, since it doesn't increase target audience amount. If anything, it prevents new ones from joining.

About increasing performance, its not like a third company will rise in the gaming market and present huge mining numbers. all NVIDIA\AMD have to do is come up with cards that mine 5% faster than previous gen and they will be bought out. At least that's what going on right now. What kind of an incentive to grow you have if your target audience can't even reach your product. Will you, as NVIDIA, launch a new line up of volta cards right now? Hell no, it can keep rotting on its shelf like it has been for the last year or so.

Preventing the launch of a new product line is the dictionary definition of a slow down for me.
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Nvidia already released Volta consumer level cards. The Titan V already hit. They are on schedule from what I can tell to release the next batch of cards for 2H 2018. I have seen a product release speed up from them.

Market demanded mining cards. Both sides dropped mining cards (P106-90, P106-100, P104-100, AMD RX470/480/750/580 mining editions).

AMD if anyone is the only company taking their sweet ass time to do anything and if anything has slowed down nvidia for a release schedule it was a complete and utter lack of competition. I mean come on AMD Vega isn't even that good at mining anything other than cryptonight and it is worse at games.
 
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Fluffmeister said:
AMD need a killer product for gamers, not the Vega launch which was a train crash in slow motion
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I think what they actually need is a great-performing mid-range card that not only kills Nvidia in 1080p but also competes pretty well at 1440p. It needs to be affordable and simple, instead of being over-engineered.

They had the right idea with the 480, but between the botched launch, lack of anything in stock initially, and voltage overdraw problems, it really didn't have a prayer. They tried to do it right with the 580, but too late.

Pity, had the 480 been done right from the beginning, their Steam percentage might be 25-30% now.
 
I legit loved my original 480's minus them being hot and power hungry.
 
Where in the Nano?

Give us an ITX version, looks like the PCB is already small enough.

Just bolt a shorter cooler on and take my money :-)
 
cdawall said:
I legit loved my original 480's minus them being hot and power hungry.
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Oh don't get me wrong. I like the 480. My Sapphire runs cool, but still draws as much power as my 980Ti , I think. I just felt they botched what really should have been a game-changer for them.
 
Gibbo said:
Where in the Nano?

Give us an ITX version, looks like the PCB is already small enough.

Just bolt a shorter cooler on and take my money :)
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It would be really interesting to see how low they would need to clock it to cool it with an ~R9 Nano sized cooler. I'm thinking it would probably not be egregiously low, which would make that a very interesting card indeed. The PCB looks roughly Fury X sized, so longer than ITX, but only by an inch or so. That would fit in pretty much any case.

And again: make a full cover water block for this please.
 
rtwjunkie said:
Oh don't get me wrong. I like the 480. My Sapphire runs cool, but still draws as much power as my 980Ti , I think. I just felt they botched what really should have been a game-changer for them.
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Those are what I had. Wish I would have kept them. Those are monster cards for mining :roll:
 
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