AMD fans, we’ve got some news for you today. DudeRandom84 has benchmarked the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition with NVIDIA’s GTX1080 and GTX1080Ti in Resident Evil 7, and the results are quite interesting. Moreover, the first 3DMark Fire Strike results for AMD’s RX Vega graphic card have been unveiled, putting it at the exact same place with the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.
Contrary to a lot of titles, in Resident Evil 7 the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition was able to compete with the NVIDIA GTX1080. In some scenes the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition was faster and in other scenes the NVIDIA GTX1080 was faster. Now since we are talking about a 3-4fps difference, we can safely say that these cards are evenly matched in this particular game.
On the other hand, Videocardz has shared the first 3DMark Fire Strike results for the gaming variant of the Vega architecture, the AMD Radeon RX Vega. And the results are similar to those of the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. And that’s precisely why we’ve been sharing these past days articles comparing the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition with both the GTX1080 and the GTX1080Ti.
As we’ve already said, we expect the gaming variant of the Vega architecture to be somewhere between the GTX1080 and the GTX1080Ti. And from what we’ve seen so far, the AMD Radeon RX Vega will be really close to the performance of the GTX1080.
Of course we hope that the AMD RX Vega will be better priced than the GTX1080, and that its performance will be better than the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (and the GTX1080). However, one thing is certain: NVIDIA has really nothing to be afraid of as it will retain the crowd of the faster graphics card. Not only that, but it will also be able to postpone the release of Volta in order to capitalize on the success of the GTX1080Ti.
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So vega won’t be shaking up the market as much as we thought.
That depends on the price. Remember, high end gamers are vastly the minority. The money is in the cheaper cards, and these days, integrated graphics.
Ive said all along it will depend on price, as $400 1080 performative would be a huge success, but rumours suggest that it’s not cheap at all.
$600 seems to be the price that’s doing the rounds.
Given hbm so expensive it seems unlikely they will be able to offer very cheaply.
i’m not sure if that’s really true anymore. the mid range section have the most volume sale but most revenue now coming from high end hardware. last year Jon Peddie report shows that the most revenue for gaming hardware market comes from the high end.
I’d have to see that research before I could comment on it’s validity, but I don’t see how it could possibly be true. I don’t, personally, know anyone who has ever purchased a high end video card aside from myself.
He is correct on this.
Minority doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have competition at that segment of market. I was hoping AMD to break the market in the high end graphics market too.
AMD should step up it’s game is all I’m saying. When a gamer even if being in the minority segment goes to buy high end gaming cards he/she should’ve a choice. It’s nice that way.
Actually 66% of profit comes from Nvidia’s high end GPU’s.
I won’t read it this time, but let me guess: it’s about a benchmark in which Vega FE performs about the same as a 1080, then the author says that as he already said many, many, many, many times, they expect the gaming variant to be somewhere inbetween GTX1080 and GTX1080Ti.
No, if you even read the title you’d know what the story was about…. big surprise that actually reading something helps eh??
Amd pros be like
“ohhh a 1080ti killer, fu nvidia etc etc”
and when it turns out it doens’t cut it vs the 1080ti
“OHHHhhh it’s about price range and lower market blablah…”
meh.
There’s been a lot of comments to effect of “Vega FE isn’t a gaming GPU, these benchmarks are pointless, FE has non gaming drivers, even some suggesting drivers would push it closer to TI performance etc etc”
And when people like myself pointed out this was highly unlikely, we got told we were Nvidia fanboys
Do you own a Ryzen cpu? I’ve noticed most AMD fanboys don’t. They seemed to be waiting for the cheaper models to drop. You would think y’all would be throwing money at AMD on day one of Ryzen’s release instead of just pulling for them. I’m sure AMD would rather have your money instead of your love.
But But…. it’s not a gaming gpu….. and the drivers…. oh wait, it is a gaming gpu and it has drivers…..shiiiiiit, guess we out of excuses lol
Pretty sure it hasn’t been released yet.
Is that the new excuse now? Denial ?
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If this card is more than £300, I’ll pass.
No. And Why would think that?
RX Vega should come it around $500 though.
The 1080 came out in May of 2016. If this does indeed match that, what’s the point, might as well wait for Volta in a few months time.
Why rush it if this all AMD has, smh
matching 1080 while drawing almost 100% more power?
Amd small manage to bring fight to Intel. I doubt that they have plenty money left for Gpu. And even then they be quite close to Nvidia performance wise. Less budget the same effect a bit late. Effort to make the amd afloat its done . Now it can go only better. Sorry for my English
I’m still buying a RX Vega, and then I’m putting my old 980Ti and my new RX Vega in the same build, just to confuse and p!ss people off.