AMD has announced that it will let the public get its hands on its new RX Vega graphics card in Budapest on July 18th. As AMD noted, on Tuesday, July 18 from 2 to 7 PM, it will be transforming the Akvárium Klub into a PC gaming zone in which it will be bringing rigs powered by Radeon RX Vega with today’s most popular games for gamers to try.
Although AMD did not reveal the games that will be showcased, our guess is that the red team will let the public test games that favour its graphics cards, such as DOOM, Sniper Elite 4, Battlefield 1 and PREY. Moreover, AMD did not reveal whether gamers will be able to use any framerate counters (you know, in order to see how these cards perform) or whether these systems will feature a single or two RX Vega GPUs in Crossfire.
AMD will also showcase the RX Vega in Portland (PDXLAN) on July 21st to July 23rd and in Los Angeles during SIGGRAPH 2017, when we expect the red team to official release it.
In somehow related news, Duderandom84 has released two new videos in which the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is put against the NVIDIA GTX1080 and the NVIDIA GTX1080Ti in Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Grand Theft Auto V. And the results were not that good for AMD’s GPU. Now as we’ve said numerous times, the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is meant for workstation users and not gamers. Still, these videos can give us an idea of what we can expect from RX Vega.
In both of these titles, the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performed worse than even the default GTX1080Ti graphics card. And while the performance difference in Ghost Recon: Wildlands was around 4-9fps, in GTA V the GTX1080 was able to surpass the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in some scenes by 30fps. Now that’s a huge performance difference, and we don’t know whether the gaming variant will be able to close this gap!
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wow that GTA V performance
1,079.99$ card for worse performance than a GTX 1080…
and i thought peasants were insane to pay for online but this card…
this company is Peasantry.
utter insanity.
edit: wow how did i miss that joke? 1079$ and it’s has performance BELOW GTX 1080
well memed AMD, well memed…
It’s a bloody prosumer card. It’s not meant to compete with the GTX 1080. AMD’s upcoming RX Vega is the one that’s intended for gamers. I don’t even like AMD but I don’t flush the facts down the toilet and say “LOL $1,000 CARD CAN’T BEAT A 1080 HAHAHA”. Think, man. Think!
know what? i’m gonna print screen this comment
and once the “gaming version” comes out we’ll see about the “it’s not meant for games lul”
I think it’s sad that you think I’m defending AMD. I have zero interest in RX Vega. I bought my GTX 1070 back in September 2016 and I’ve been using it ever since. Volta will wreck whatever the Radeon Technology Group comes up with and I kinda feel bad for them. All this waiting only to come up so short.
Deuces!
A quadro is a Pro card (above prosumer) and performs equally in games to its gaming GTX variant. You amduh fans are truly not convincing anyone but yourselves with that excuse,
First of all, I’m not an AMD fan. I have an Intel CPU and an NVIDIA GPU. I don’t have any plans to get anything from AMD. Not that it should even matter. Second of all, you’re 100% wrong. Performance parity doesn’t exist between the Quadro and GTX series. In nearly all cases, the Quadro cards don’t perform as well in games. If you even took mere minutes to check reviews, then you’d know that. I doubt you even know that Quadro cards are usually clocked lower for stability.
It’s a bloody prosumer card. Wait until the 18th for gaming vega
And people don’t show those quadro comparisons in these modern games, why? I’d love to see them, if they perform just as well as a 1080 and/or 1080 ti for $2000+
ehm, Quadro’s perform the same as their GTX counterparts in games. We all k now this already.
Proof, as they say. Searched the beloved 3D mark Firestrike people love to make vega FE comparisons for, but could not find Quadro listings.
A quadro is a Pro card (above prosumer) and performs equally in games to its gaming GTX variant. You amduh fans are truly not convincing anyone but yourselves with that excuse,
Are you that “Sean” guy who used to comment here before?
Will their be a frame rate counter and just one Vega card unlike last time?
Very unlikely
“the GTX1080 was able to surpass the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in some scenes by 30fps.”
Vega …go home !
I’m waiting on reviews and benches from reputable tech sites. I don’t pay attention to AMD marketing PR and what some guy on Youtube benched a Frontier at. The solid facts will come when AMD lifts the NDA on the RX Vega series and we get reviews.
Hoping for good results but skeptical that RX Vega will reach 1080 Ti performance except with the claimed very high power draw and the need for the extra expense of a water cooler. Well, we’ll see soon enough what RX Vega brings.
i’m wondering how many more years i can go on without having bottleneck issues with my 4770k, i know for a fact that i5 4690k bottlenecks gtx1080, i hate it when i’m forced to change cpu
what resolution you gaming at, a at 4k, my 108ti is still bottleck for my 357ok lol
you got to be kidding, 4690k bottlenecks 1080ti let alone 3570k, who told you to get that card?my main is running 4770k and 1080ti and i don’t have any issue whatsoever but i think i’m close to getting the most out of my current rig
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2986-amd-vega-hybrid-mod-results-overclocking-liquid-vs-air/page-3
Heavily overclocked FE(1700mhz water cooled) struggles to beat a stock 1080 at 4k in many cases
I’d like for them to test their cards against games that clearly don’t net them an easy “look at how godlike our cards are!” look. I want them testing those cards at 1080p, 1440p and 4k.
Also want to see them taking on games like Witcher 3, GTA V, Ashes of a Singularity etc.
So how come, you decided to make 2 different articles with major headlines in your site, when it was about the VEGA Frontier performance on DOOM being a bit better than the 1080 (which everyone knows is already a vulkan game that favours AMD), and then you did the same thing for the BF1 comparison and the Witcher 3 comparison, another article where the AMD pulls a tiny bit ahead of the 1080 FE, but then later you get the tests of GTA V (one of the best sold steam games on PC) where the 1080 FE completely trashes the 1 year younger VEGA that costs more than double the price, and you put it in the article but not even mention it on the title, and the PREY test (one of the most recent PC games) where again the 1080 FE plays much better than the VEGA, and it is not even mentioned?
Do I detect quite a bit of Bias here?
How are they talking? When? Where?
P5000 is slower than GTX1080 but the performance gap is not big. but most often quadro end up being a bit slower than geforce because the clock usually is less aggressive on quadro where precision and stability is more important that absolute raw speed. so what we see on Vega FE right now should give us the glimpse on how the RX Vega will perform. but some people did not want to accept this. they still want to believe that RX Vega will be significantly better than what we saw now.
witcher 3, 1080p, 4690k struggles
And that was my point all along.
At 1440p and 4k, the gpu usually becomes the bottleneck.i even said originally ” what resolution you gaming at, as at 4k, my 1080ti is still bottleck for my 3570k lol”.
bottlenecking on 1080p is almost guaranteed, i didn’t mean only cpu heavy games btw
most benchmarks Ive seen lately still allow for a 60fps at 1080p on i5, simply cause console cpu are weak as heck and only aim for 30fps in most cases.
Im not replacing my cpu at this point as there’s little benefit when I aim for 60fps and have gsync screen. My GPU is almost always what’s holding me back, as i can drop settings and hit 60fps at 4k in every game
In another year or two when something comes out that genuinely starts making me have to upgrade I will, but until then, there’s no point
Thanks but unfortunately that video negates much of what you guys are trying to knock AMD for.
Moral of the video: Yes you can play games on a $5000 graphics card, but no you shouldn’t buy a $5000 graphics card for that. Same thing everyone even AMD is telling you about Frontier Edition. Its not for that. Get a cheaper, non-workstation GPU for that.
Plus the video shows practically the same thing when comparing P6000 to Titan as comparing Vega FE to Fury X. Perform basically the same in gaming, but one costs very much higher than the other. But one thing we have seen about the FE is that it crushes Fury X in those production benchmarks, wheras the P6000 did not exactly crush Titan X in the benchmarks he performed. That should be saddening really. Gotta show more than just the 2 however.
How can FE play crisis btw?
Who here claimed we should buy a $5000 card for gaming? Your claim is because vega FE is prosumer it is excud for its bad performance. The argument was that a Quadro will perform as well as its GTX version. And it does. This does not negate anything about that argument, It proves it.
Bad spin you got there. 1 point for the pathetic attempt tho.
No one claimed anything. But everyones making the assumption that one should buy a prosumer card for mere gaming at any time, and consistently wants to compare high priced consumer cards to gaming cards. Does a $1500 card not perform as well as a $600 card at this point, while – STILL – not being for what people are comparing it to and -STILL – doing better than that card at what its made for? Its still a prosumer card and you shouldn’t buy it without any plans of prosuming. Nothing about that is different when it comes to Quadro vs GTX.
Plus I just noticed Anaron’s comment just now. Seems you just picked the vid that shows a favorable benchmark when there are plenty of unfavorable ones to choose from?
Yes you just did make that claim in your previous comment. or at least you tried.
Fact is Pro nvidia cards math GTX card in gaming. Pro-SUMEr AMD Vega cant even keep up with a 1080 when OC’ed to 17000 Mhz .
Case closed.
You just posted the same video as the guy above at practically the same time….
But no, the moral of the story is the same as with FE: yes you can play games on it, no you shouldn’t buy it to play games with. Its primary reason for being is for creation. Get a Titan Xp or something for gaming, costing practically 1/4 the price for what will be similar just gaming performance.