Is Vega 64 a good buy

Hardware GPU
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thought so.

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@haptizum

what games are you playing on windows/linux, whats your setup currently, whats your budget?

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@Eden

I am running a i7-5930k, 32GB, and a 980Ti. I was willing to spend at the most $500. It would be games like WItcher 3, Watch Dogs 2, not much FPS stuff anymore.

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RX-580 is pretty much unbeatable at $210. You could get a GTX1050ti but it’s a pretty big performance delta. GTX1060 would be roughly equivalent but would have to get the 3GB version to be price competitive, which is a shameful thing.

Cheapest card that would equal your 980ti is a GTX1070 or Vega56, and that’s talking like five hundred dollars. Lot of money just to benefit from freesync. I suggest keeping the 980ti and spending the money on hookers and blow.

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I dont see the need to replace it. Even with a vega 64 you’re not upgrading a ton in performance.

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@Adubs Since you put it that way sounds like I should just use my 980Ti for another year or so?

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I sure as hell would since theres still navi and volta to come. We dont know much yet but 7nm vega is supposed to be next I believe. IIRC the 980ti is still slightly faster than the 1070.

Personally I have the 1070 and its more than enough to do 1440p on my 144hz monitor with settings cranked in most games.

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yeah, why wouldn’t you

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at stock. the gainz when you OC are remarkable

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@Adubs Sounds like you saved me some money. Thanks for the help.

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just for future reference you should lead with the fact you own a high end card in the first place

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sure you can OC the 1070 to push it pretty far but in all fairness is that going to change the experience in gaming?

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@tkoham Yeah, I realized I should have mentioned that in the post :frowning:

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nah, it’s just a hit of nostalgia every time I think about nvidia chips that still scaled with voltage and gave you actual software controls to mess with

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This has basically damned my 290x into being my passthrough card.

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nothing like that patented finewine ™ tech

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One thing i will say is that if you ARE going to wait for RTX 2XXX, you better have your money ready to click “order” asap upon release.

I think these cards will be snapped up by miners very quickly. Buying a previous generation card (either AMD or Nvidia) at that point (NOT NOW) will be quite cheap due to the market being flooded with cards that are no longer energy:performance efficient enough to compete.

But if you buy a GPU right now if you COULD wait a couple of months, you’re nuts.

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Forget miners, they’ll be snapped up by gamers right away. I had a devil of a time buying my 1080 in the first month of its release. Had nowinstock.net watching for it, sending notifications, etc.

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which is goofy given the architectural changes

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Mining is down at the moment and unless the hash rate is insane the ROI won’t be there