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In preparation for the RX Vega's official launch at the end of this month, AMD has decided to take its latest graphics card out on a mini tour. During these small fan events, AMD is showing off the RX Vega to the public for the first time and demoing it up against a GTX 1080, essentially confirming which part of the market AMD is targeting with Vega.
AMD is taking the RX Vega out on a two-step tour, which started in Budapest yesterday. The event featured closed gaming systems and were set up for a ‘blind test', which unfortunately means performance was only measured by perception, with no frame rate counters on display. Still, the fact that AMD is putting the RX Vega up against the GTX 1080 is very telling.
This isn't the first time that we have heard that the RX Vega will target the GTX 1080. The most recent performance leaks for Vega put it at a 15 percent advantage over the GTX 1080 but couldn't quite meet GTX 1080Ti levels.
During the tests at the Budapest event, AMD was showing both graphics cards running Battlefield 1 and Sniper Elite 4, all on a 3440×1440 ultra-wide display. The final stop on the Vega tour will be Portland between the 21st and 23rd of July. Then, a week later we should see the official unveiling at SIGGRAPH, with the RX Vega shipping out in August.
KitGuru Says: While it's a shame that we didn't get solid performance numbers out of this event, it does seem to make it clear that AMD is targeting the GTX 1080 with the RX Vega. Have many of you been waiting for Vega?
Yes, especially for the FreeSync Ultrawide monitor I am about to buy … Vega will come in handy, especially a watercooled version of it.
I hope you got free solar energy.
For my case, i dont intend to play 24/7 and wont invest more than 500 (at best)
in a GPU. If Vega delivers what a 1080 delivers for a similar or lesser price, paired up with a cheaper freesync monitor, the difference will carry the additional electricity cost.
If drivers even get better over time, there is no reason to go for a 1080, at least not for me.
I’m saddened by the fact that they are targeting the 1080, which at this point is over a year old already. NVidia is gouging its customer base and AMD can’t compete at the top end. It’s times like this I miss 3DFX and their Voodoo cards.
this was RX Vega XL (on the left) beating 1080 (on the right)
The Vega I’m waiting for is the one in Raven Ridge.
While normally i’d be upset at gouging, Nvidia is at least delivering on performance gains for the last 3 generations. Intel on the other hand is gouging with nearly no gains.
Ya it all depends what you’re upgrading from and the games you are playing that requires the GPU power. I have a new Ryzen system with an old GTX660ti that i’ve been waiting to upgrade. I hope Vega was worth the wait to at least be 50%+ faster than Fury X as i didn’t want to purchase that at the time.
500 what? GTX1080’s are available in the UK for around £450, even Overclockers have them and they aren’t normally the cheapest, if you meant dollars I’d imagine they are cheaper than the UK, we normally get screwed over pricing. Prices were even a bit cheaper a month a go but they are creeping up as Vega launch approaches, maybe the stores know something we don’t, like Vega will have limited availability.
You are going to have quite a huge performance boost. I on the other hand I am upgrading from a GTX 980, which doesn’t seem like an upgrade I need, BUT I know my GPU can’t handle 4K at more than 35-40FPS, that means it won’t handle my ultrawide too at high FPS (560 vertical pixels less). I on the other hand want to play the Witcher 3 at 60 on this monitor…
Ya that makes sense, I got a new 1440p 144hz freesync monitor and my gtx660ti is barely getting by (30-40fps) on low-medium settings on most titles lol. Luckily Overwatch runs at 80-90fps on low-medium at that resolution so i’m holding out. I want to crank them visuals up to enjoy the graphic fidelity progress over the last 5 years lol.
hehe, I am buying both RX Vega and Acer XR382CQK – an ultrawide monitor with 3840×1600 resolution and 75Hz. Looking at Joker’s benchmarks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_9LrJEVcu4&t=200s
If I take these benchmarks and assume that RX Vega will perform in the middle of GTX 1080 and 1080Ti, then I would probably get ~60~FPS at this resolution in the Witcher 3 and some of the other games…
However I am buying this monitor mainly for programming, game development and Star Citizen.
But for you, if you are only going to game on your PC, then your choice of 144Hz monitor is excellent!
Um, €, should probably have included that info 😛
Its always costlier in Germany :/ Prices range from 540€ =493£
to 600=537 (and more ofc), as far as i can see actualy.
My only worry on Vega is the power comsumption, anything over 250W might be a dealbreaker.
Almost same here. Going with i5-2400 and an GTX 760, will upgrade autumn/winter everything.
Lets all just buy it anyway and show our support.
The drivers will improve as well.
And if you don’t want to miss Radeon by year 2020, you might want to have a more positive view on Vega.
Radeon is AMD’s hobby, an attempt at heterogeneous game. The rest of the competition quit, because it was not sustainable, AMD is the only company that prevents total monopoly. It has already freaked Intel out, and, while it can’t do the same to Nvidia, it doesn’t mean that it delivers bad products.
Practically each AMD card over the past 5+ years has got cult following, has aged well and improved over time. While, yes, always being second at launch.
Vega may seem disappointing, but a bigger disappointment lies if there is no Vega.
Here’s my take.
You got 3 events…
the lower end vega XL targets the 1070. XT targets the 1080 and the xtx targets the 1080ti.
since we know that a 1080 would perform 4k@60fps in bf1 and amd would not be stupid enough to show a clearly underperforming card against their competitor, I believe they’ve pitted a 1070 against the XL card. It would make sense of the numbers, 40-50fps vs around 60 at 4k in BF1.
Need to keep in mind a fury x reaches 50fps in that game so it is absolutely impossible that we’ve seen the higher end unless the sky is falling on AMD.
why show support to a company continuously letting it’s loyal fans down. The hype surrounding Vega has had people hoping a year after the 1080 release that amd will at the very minimum beat a 1080.
And now all of a sudden it can only just keep up with a 1080, not good enough, and rumour has it that it uses way more power and much more expensive components, and still only matches a 1080, so all this hbm rubbish has made no difference at all it still can’t beat a 1080.
I think people are fools supporting this company, it’s clear they simply cant keep up. You shouldn’t just buy it to support them, I mean are you people stupid, you would take a performance hit yourself to support them? Your suppose to buy for you, you are the customer that wants the best cards out there. Pathetic ?
They will like us if we do and make the drivers better.
I think its nice of AMD to help nivida 1080 ti sales, its not the card we wanted it to go up against.
We only wanted a card to beat the 1080.
Let’s all buy inferior products.
How about no.
If it’s faster than 1080, and cheaper than a 1080…how is that inferior? My guess is they release a card that competes with the 1070 for $100 less, and then the same for 1080. There top notch card will almost reach 1080ti levels, at again $100 less.
1070 for $100 less??? That’s the price of RX 580 and FYI I’ve seen 1070 as low as $349.
Moreover HBM is expensive.
AMD brings a GTX 1080 competitor 17 months later!!!!! Hurrah let’s support this company…
When The upcoming GTX 2060 and 2070 will have 1080 and 1080Ti lvl of performance for $300 and $400-450. While consuming much less power.
BTW you’re forgetting that Nvidia cards can be OCed heavily. I’m sure that Max OCed 1080 11gbps will r@pe Vega
Because that’s two ifs you are relying on.
Considering how massive Vega’s die is known to be and considering how expensive the memory is known to be Vega will not be cheap cards. Nor cool ones or power efficient ones. That is called inferior.
Nvidia hold all the (ahem) cards
They’re only going to put HBM2 on their top end ‘Fury’ type card. The cards competing against a 1070 will have GDDR and be just as fast but cheaper.
No the 1080 dropped in price only because the 1080ti was released lol. That’s NVIDIOT logic. Let’s sell a Kia for 70,000…then when we release our Tesla we’ll drop the Kia to 40,000 and sell the Tesla for 70,000! Max profits baby, screw the consumer
Ryzen wasn’t a let down, it was a big surprise. Wait till they release Ryzen Refresh with much higher clock speeds. It will smash Intel hard, Cannonlake better bring 6 cores at 4.5+ GHZ or else they in trouble. Lord knows Intel can’t actually get serious IPC gains, so it’s all about cores and onboard graphics for them which very few give a damn about.
Vega won’t use GDDR. It’s HBM only
So why didn’t Nvidia just leave the GTX1080 at $700 and install the 1080ti at $1000 seeing as though there was still no AMD competition?
You’re pretty stupid.
Nvidia didn’t even have to lower the price of the GTX1080 but they did when they brought out a faster card. Stop whining.
You should set your standards higher, the only reason ryzen was not a let down is because it finally released something competitive, but depending on the main application of your system it still can fall short.
I use my PC predominately for gaming, ryzen is not the best choice for me.
Why oh why can’t amd aim for once to obliterate the competition? Why is it simply OK to only challenge them and let them still keep the lead in performance?
If people wasn’t so accepting of simply keeping up AMD may finally try to push for the win.
wei feng you nasty faggit
thanks