Definitely a sad launch for me. I hoped to see a bit more improvement over Frontier Edition with the added bonus of Vega Specific drivers rolling around. V56 looks to be an okay option, depending on availability and price’s of partner produced cards. Still, V56 looks to be not that much faster, and still power hungry.
Although with Ethereum and Bitcoin doing well again, good fucking luck buying V56 or V64. I don’t think a $100 premium will stop all miners from going for those gpu’s reserved only for “pack” sales.
Would love to see how the previously reviewed Wasabi Mango UHD400 works with these. Both 56 & 64.
Might opt for AMD after all, if Freesync works well with this combo.
Why? Its Terflop value isn’t bad and I’m sure there is room for improvements on the driver side of things.
I just watched the review below and the rx 56 seems to match a Geforce 1080 in Total War: Warhammer and Dirt 4. While I don’t think that the rx 56 will match the 1080 in general, it may show that there is some room for improvement. (Unless of course, the author did something wrong).
AMD did promise a lot, plenty that they have yet to deliver. The fabled 2X perf increase per clock for the “New” Compute Unit for example. Or the increased performance per Watt.
Also, computerbase seems to claim that the primitive shader/discard is also not working/disabled. They’ve talked to AMD about it? My German is atrocious, so waiting for confirmation that it isn’t just a translation error.
