Time to say it again - it’s dead on arrival.
stand by what I said, vega just doesnt seem like it was ever aimed at gamers at all.
Everything seems vectored longer term towards cracking hollywood, to which I am sure it will be brilliant at… just that the ‘consumer grade’ scaled down version of vega is meh at high end gaming.
Radeon Instinct MI25 GPU accelerators = Headerless Vega64
If you check the stats they are virtually identical
https://instinct.radeon.com/en-us/product/mi/radeon-instinct-mi25/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0pHdxq201QIVTbHtCh2m4AUPEAAYASAAEgIvjfD_BwE
Thing is, as a cinema4d user who will most likely upgrade to Cinema4d R19, vega still looks good to me.
That card looks really nice. 
Vega56 to me seems like a decent competitor for the 1070, which is likely to be more future-proof (fp16 x2), and which packs a few interesting new features, including SR-IOV support. Shame it’s not really in my price bracket.
Uhm, you sure? Have a source?
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I don’t think they are talking RX Vega here. This is a WS card feature. As far as I know not even the FE has SRIOV.
If that were the case, then why write " The Vega also includes improved support for professional level features, things like SRIOV" in an article about RX Vega?
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The Instinct GPU accelerators (headerless versions of vega meant for rackmounts) have it so it stands to reason that they all do as its essentially the same card?
Vega & Zen were aimed squarely at data centres right from the start, so
gaming = okay-ish
getting shit done (with very specific customers in mind) = awesome
Because every second word in that text is architecture? Remeber, the Radeon Pro WX9100 is also Vega. And it was rumored in the past that SR-IOV could be a thing. But on the FE it isn’t as far as I know. So on RX it would definitively be a surprise to say the least.
I’d love to be wrong here but … I don’t think I am.
For AMD+Linux fans Phoronix has a new article laying the groundwork for Linux benchmarking on Vega.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-radeonsi-384&num=1
I also included this article about how bad the AMD+Linux situation was 2 years ago. AMD has come so far since then
http://wccftech.com/nvdia-amd-steamos-gaming-performance/
Gone are the days of a Fury X getting crushed by a gtx 950
Can confirm. 
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Saw this on hackernews
"Just curious any people own $AMD shares? I was surprised to learn that AMD is the second most owned company on Robinhood trading platform behind Apple. I bought in at $10.47 after last earnings absolutely destroyed it. Just sold right before current earnings at $14.12 and looking to maybe buy back in lower than I sold for. Closed today at $13.61.
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Who is this for then? I should just go Nvidia for my gaming rig?
The RX 480 last year had an amazing price/performance ratio. It was a very exciting product for the mid range gamer. It seems with Vega they are offering slightly worse than Nvidia’s high end for slightly less money.
Better performance at the same price would have been compelling. Slightly worse at a bargain price would have been compelling.
Plus, you won’t be able to buy these anyway because of mining. This is just sad. Maybe they should just remarket themselves as a mining company."
So that’s where all this bad press I see in youtube comments sections and other places is coming from! Filthy fucking short term investors who want to see vega to flop so they can scoop up AMD shares when they’re cheap and then sell just before/after Navi ( which will be amazing) comes out so they can make a killing!
Everyone buy vega so they have to buy AMD stock at a price higher than what they sold for! They’ll feel dumb and hopefully loose a job
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AMD’s graphics division brings in very little cash overall. The CPU market it much more lucrative. EPYC is where the money and share price is going to be coming from. It also isn’t from these tiny people either. More Goldman Sachs and other banks shitting on AMD and EPYC
(Taken from: http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=AE163547-6889-4073-BBF6-9DB2C45BB233&lang=eng)
do i see it right? fury crashing 1070’s in some benchmarks? derp.
its likely its supported since gcn gpu’s do support it. There was big hole in drivers for fury-x for ‘years’, especially since there was no ‘pro’ solution for a while so you couldn’t flash your gpu if you wanted to – amd products are mostly flash-compatible with pro version (there are some really custom consumer version cards like xfx where bios differs a lot.)
But amd released pro duo (fury-x x2) pro drivers couple months ago, adding sriov – it only supports 4, instead of 16 separations on pro bios. (Pro drivers also seem to work on my powercolor fury-x, i assume the work just fine with any fury-x gpu’s.) (newest vmware workstation + pro drivers). Thus RX Vega improved support of sriov should be a normal thing. I still think they only give 4 or 6 for normal consumer versions instead of full actual support of the gpu.
The limitation is driver based on your bios, simple flash would do the work in most cases as long as pro bios gets upload.
Bioshock Infinite it actually beats a 1080.
Dota 2 was not pretty however
Well, the settings are random AF though…
I mean, 4K @ medium? 
as an amd fan you take whatever you can get