I just wish that AMD Vega will at least be on par with the 1080Ti... That in itself is a big task for them.

If they had achieved a breakthrough and got the MHz up. It shouldn't be architecturally such a behemoth that it would beat the 1080Ti if it's running really slowly, especially with the custom 1080Tis being factory OCed. Fury-X vs 980Ti taught us as much.

If they had achieved a breakthrough and got the MHz up. It shouldn't be architecturally such a behemoth that it would beat the 1080Ti if it's running really slowly, especially with the custom 1080Tis being factory OCed. Fury-X vs 980Ti taught us as much.

just in some chosen case... that's maybe because the last of them were sold around 250Euro on sale (btw it was less expensive than the 390X 8g). just let Vega do it's path to the review 🙂 (don't forget that the RX480 was intended to destroy the GTX1080 in any condition if you were listening too much the hype...)

Very very slow. I get the feeling they try to bump up the vega hardware stats as much as they can since Ti got released. Otherwise why it takes them SO LONG? By the time they release, Volta will come out, and then its a big fail.

Very very slow. I get the feeling they try to bump up the vega hardware stats as much as they can since Ti got released. Otherwise why it takes them SO LONG? By the time they release, Volta will come out, and then its a big fail.

Volta isn't coming out till like March next year. Vega is coming out in like a month or two. Relax.

1.50GHz 4096SP 16GB HBM2 275W Behemoth must crush 1080Ti lol

Not too often I see Linux news here (though being a Phoronix reader, I already knew about this).

I just wish that AMD Vega will at least be on par with the 1080Ti... That in itself is a big task for them.

As much as I like AMD, I don't think they're going to beat the 1080Ti, especially not without needing 3 PCIe power connectors. What they really need is something that consistently outperforms the 1070 while also being more energy efficient. Right now the 1070 is the only efficient, "reasonably priced", single-card GPU that can reliably play games in 2K. There are other options to play games in 2K, but they're either too power hungry, they can't sustain constant good framerates, they're too expensive, or you need more than one of them. If Vega is a solid competitor to the 1070, that will be a good product. I think AMD needs more time to make something 4K-ready (in other words, something that will beat a 1080Ti).

One of the most important parts of the article is that AMD is doing a big rewrite of their driver that needs to be accepted first. It has already been rejected once.

One of the most important parts of the article is that AMD is doing a big rewrite of their driver that needs to be accepted first. It has already been rejected once.

Not the entire driver, primarily just the parts involving DAL/DC. This is needed for HDMI/DP audio on existing products, and is necessary for all future products, like Vega. The rewrite was required since it was repeatedly rejected from being added to the Linux kernel, and for good reasoning. It's nice to see AMD has [hopefully] managed to set things right in time for Vega's release.