lmao
Vega will be called...
Vega
Best. Troll. Ever.
I thought Vega sounded cool enough. The reveal was probably more fun(ny) factor than anything.
I know they are a business and their ultimate goal is to turn a profit, but they almost seem like a protagonist in a story.
They do well, have some obstacles, get knocked down, fight to the top and win.
I would like to think that if somehow AMD captured more market share than AMD and nvidia and became super successful, that they would not jack up prices like Intel has. At the very least they may want to, but know better than to do it since we all know how that worked out for intel.
Kinda like the name... Kinda don't the logo...
So there were 2 important things - the name and the Bethesda collaboration...
All else - VR, VR, VR... Nobody cares about VR... Valve doesn't care about VR...
The bethesda thing is huge i think. The logo was weak imo. I was like "Are those eyes or just a mighty duck looking-ass V?"
The cache thing sounds very interesting. I take it the HBM memory is what AMD mean by cache?
Also that first VR film world. I would like to see that in VR.
lol
Vega is called RX Vega. Saved you an hour and a half
Was there specification or performance talk?
No.
So this was a two hour tech demo and name reveal? I've got better things to do for 2 hours lmfao...
r/amd is currently tearing itself to pieces over that presentation
Well, I mean it is GDC so I wasn't expecting too much. It usually is more tech focused and they did go fairly in depth on a lot of the tech in it but nothing super exciting for consumers. Mostly VR stuff tbh
It's a shit show over there.
for the 5 minutes that I watched the only thing stated is the obvious stuff like the new gcn cores are designed to have a Higher IPC than polaris . (who would have guessed)
The only real takeaway is that the HBCC may be an actual good thing. I do not understand the Rapid Packed Math in the slightest.
It's a compute feature. Not really relevant for gaming. Vega is aimed much more at the professional compute market than anything else. Despite their claims of it being a gaming card
Watched it again and I'm a little confused. Doubling the available or usable video memory from using it as cache. How do you do that exactly?
If that's true, then why is there so much hype around it? I'm sure the technology will trickle down to consumer models eventually, but the hype makes no sense to me now, knowing this.
Vega hype at this point is 100% user driven, all of the concrete information we have about Vega is the name and that its a GPU. No performance numbers, no specs, and no pricing. Its all AMD fanboy hype train...
Preordering offers incoming :D