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I wouldn't call it truly scalable. All they did was add a revised interconnect and redesign the paths each core communicates with each other. It's still essentially the same thing they have now, if you want a more/less powerful cpu, you need to disable cores. It's not like Ryzen where they can quite literally remove a whole CCX and the CPU still functions properly or in the EPYC case, they just add more CCX's on a die. Intel is still in a 2 Dimensional phase per say compared to AMD, and no don't take that literally. It was the best comparison I could think of to describe it atm...
Not saying it's not impressive, but them saying it is entirely scalable is purely a marketing thing. It's a step in the right direction, modular micro architecture's seem to be the best way forward to keep up with Moore's Law until we are able to use a different material composition since Silicon is at it's limits.
 
Probably higher clock speeds. If a water cooled Vega is the performance we've seen so far that's beating a 1080, and that's the only way to do it, I'd be annoyed.
 
Probably higher clock speeds. If a water cooled Vega is the performance we've seen so far that's beating a 1080, and that's the only way to do it, I'd be annoyed.
But maybe its possible to custom air/watercool the XT, and then flash it to XTX
It would be annoying to have to buy a AIO watercooled card at an added cost, to just not use the cooler.
 
Probably higher clock speeds. If a water cooled Vega is the performance we've seen so far that's beating a 1080, and that's the only way to do it, I'd be annoyed.

It's Fury X all over again, hey hey, it's Fury X all over again. Sing it with me !

And from the look of it they are not allowing third party cards either. It's only clocked at 1630 too, which is probably the limit.

Bum Barp !

I like the way they hid the hoses in their sneak peak video a while back lmao. So the air cooled card will do 1430 in an air cooled office with an open test bench. In a regular case?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1U0qvtQnE8

I find it interesting that an AIO consumes 90watts...

It doesn't. That is how much power the card makes at those clocks.

TDP = Thermal design power.

The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component (often the CPU or GPU) that the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate in typical operation.

So basically that is how much power and heat the chip makes at those clocks.

Which makes sense, if it chewed through 300w on a binned card @ 1434mhz.
 
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It doesn't. That is how much power the card makes at those clocks.

TDP = Thermal design power.

The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component (often the CPU or GPU) that the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate in typical operation.

So basically that is how much power and heat the chip makes at those clocks.

Which makes sense, if it chewed through 300w on a binned card @ 1434mhz.

Good thing I already know all this.
You however seem to have missed what TBP means. That is what I was referring too as was the linked article.
 
I did miss that yes. However, the card is obviously what is using most of that not the cooler. Well, unless AIOs use that much power.

It's pretty obvious that as soon as you push the clocks on the card that power use goes batty. Which is understandable given how many cores/shaders/whatever you want to call them it has.

I tried clocking my Fury X a little while back. I got to 1150. However, anything above the stock clocks stuttered badly in gaming which was odd, because it benched fine.

I really hope this is not a repeat of that and the card actually has a tiny bit of headroom left in it (doubt it).

Mind you I guess that is one of the problems when you are behind. You have to do all of the overclocking yourself to stop your product looking gash.
 
Mind you I guess that is one of the problems when you are behind. You have to do all of the overclocking yourself to stop your product looking gash.
Agreed they need to be as close to/better than 1080, so they have probably given it everything. If they are on par/a bit better in a AMD happy games, they need to do everything they can to not fall to much behind in Nvidia games.
 
Remember guys, this is a quick news thread. If you want to create a proper discussion you should make a full thread on it.

Do we need to keep posting this over and over? Seems the same people are forgetting time and again that this thread is called quick news for a reason
 
Do we need to keep posting this over and over? Seems the same people are forgetting time and again that this thread is called quick news for a reason

I don't see the problem with it personally. There's not exactly loads of discussion going on in the forum any way.

Mind you if it bothers people we could open a "Quick news discussion" post. Sticky it and sorted. We can argue, I mean discuss things with each other, there :D
 
Far Cry 5: Game causes online outcry


Popular first-person shooter Far Cry returns for a fifth outing in 2018.
Normally set in "exotic" and fictional locations, the latest instalment of the game has caused an online controversy as this time the game is set in rural Montana and the bad guys are Americans.


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I cannot wait for this, love Total War, though the Epic Campaign map has me most excited. Effectively the Continents from TWW and TWW2 combined, though obviously, the region count will be lower to make it playable.


Interesting, nice to see results from this and that there actually is an improvement.

AMD cannot release the RX Vega fast enough. Will AMD's Gaming drivers help much, was AMD's new rasterizer disabled. Is the RX Vega bandwidth limited without the Rasteriser? So many questions!!!
 
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I cannot wait for this, love Total War, though the Epic Campaign map has me most excited. Effectively the Continents from TWW and TWW2 combined, though obviously, the region count will be lower to make it playable.



Interesting, nice to see results from this and that there actually is an improvement.

AMD cannot release the RX Vega fast enough. Will AMD's Gaming drivers help much, was AMD's new rasterizer disabled. Is the RX Vega bandwidth limited without the Rasteriser? So many questions!!!

Region count should be the same. They said something about it.. they are waiting to release more information. They aren't being clear about it that's for sure.
The combined campaign is even getting updates to the old world exclusive to W2. Should be fun!
 
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