TheF34RChannel
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When and where did they say they won't move onto Volta any time soon for that particular reason? I missed that or my memory fails me. I think they didn't quite say that and Volta is still on its original schedule.
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AlienALX
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I can't find it. Sure I saw it somewhere though.
AngryGoldfish
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I think I was the one that posted the rumour, IIRC. I don't think it's true though.
AlienALX
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In a way it already is. Volta was supposed to be with us in 2017. I would imagine probably a year after the 1080. However that has now changed to 2018.
Not that it matters too much. 1080s are still selling for more than they were at launch lol.
TheF34RChannel
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Prices better come down before Volta hits the consumer market...
AlienALX
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Well the 1080Ti FE officially hit £698 on OCUK today. Funny that.. A week after Vega launched and prices go up. I'm so glad I bought my Titan XP now. I can only see it getting worse..
AlienALX
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You could get a reasonable card for £650 for a while. All going up now though :S
TheF34RChannel
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I simply will refuse to buy a Volta GPU at such inflated prices. I don't care how good it is.
AngryGoldfish
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Isn't the price hike to do with the currency exchange?
AlienALX
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If you want value then buy Volta Titan as soon as it lands. I know, it sounds crazy right but I bought my Titan Blacks for £699 each and when Titan X launched I got around £450 each for them.
I bought my Titan X (M) for £500 all in. I had it 16 months and just sold it for £325 and if I had been greedy I could have actually gotten back every penny putting it on Ebay and separating the parts (back plate, EVGA Hybrid, stock card). I just wanted it gone quick though.
But yeah, basically I have paid £350 for a Titan XP with the sale of that card. That's not much money man, Titans hold their value strong like Apples and Alienwares !
It's also the longest lasting card in terms of performance. If you buy it on day one you get around 18 months being at the top of the ladder.
My philosophy with PCs has always been spend as much as you can afford to. Save up and dodge all of the light weight stuff that's like McDonalds. IE - you eat it all, burp and you are hungry again.
TheF34RChannel
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Angry: nah it seems prices shot up due to them miners. Hence every vendor rushed out dedicated mining cards; moar money in new market segment with halve the warranty.
Alien: you've done well! The thing is, I don't want a Titan nor a blower style card (or fiddling with replacing the cooler). I'd like a regular Volta but preferably a putative Volta Ti (and losing much value for my current 1080 but alas). - - I'm not sure what to make of your analogy sorry, must be my being Dutch?
Alien: you've done well! The thing is, I don't want a Titan nor a blower style card (or fiddling with replacing the cooler). I'd like a regular Volta but preferably a putative Volta Ti (and losing much value for my current 1080 but alas). - - I'm not sure what to make of your analogy sorry, must be my being Dutch?
Dicehunter
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Yep, The odd thing is many people expect the RX version which will be the same core, Core count, Exact same architecture etc.... with probably slightly less memory, To be magically 50% faster due to drivers ^_^
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
It's been done before.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Would be an instant buy for me if it turns out that way but I just can't see it.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Nobody expected it to be done before but it is possible. Do I expect 50%? No. But I suspect top Vega will be between a 1080 and 1080ti. There will always be those specific situations that Vega may top the Ti, but I do not expect it to be as fast/faster as a general rule
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
In DudeRandoms video he tested the FE with Crysis 3 at 1440P max settings and 2 x MSAA, It got around 40-60FPS with the majority of the time living in the 40's, The same settings and res and you are looking at around 90-100FPS with a 1080 Ti with the majority of the time living in the 90's, Even with drivers that raise the performance by 50% you are still looking at a good 40FPS slower than a 1080 Ti, That's quite disappointing.
I know it's only 1 x game but I'm a little worried for AMD, If Vega tanks they will lose a bucket load of cash
Korreborg
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As a Danish politician said the other day. "only fools argues from exceptions"
Just because something happened once in history, don't argue from that fact. Look at the 99 other times.
Beeing on par with a 1080 is still a fail, it's over a year to late.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
As a Danish politician said the other day. "only fools argues from exceptions"
Just because something happened once in history, don't argue from that fact. Look at the 99 other times.
Being on par with a 1080 is still a fail, it's over a year to late.
Looking at the "leaked" benchmark that shows it is roughly on par with the 1080 had me interested so I looked at other 1080 OC results on 3DMark11 and they overtake the results shown with some 1080's getting 34K and seeing as AMD cards as of late tend not to be too good at overclocking it looks like the RX-Vega will be behind a 1080.
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