Newegg is trying to screw me out of the two games, online with them now… bastards.
I don’t own any games and haven’t played games in years, but I was going to give them a try. Seeing that I had to pay a premium for the package I better damn well get them.
Update: they said my purchase did not come with the games, even though the avert clearly shows it does. Had game code by email in 10 minutes after I told them I would ship everything back. Threadripper, Asus Zenith, 960 Pros, 64GB memory and so on… including the RX Vega 64. Also closing my account.
I feel like Newegg has been getting worse over the last year or so. They used to be golden but if Amazon steps up their custom searches for PC hardware I sure won’t look back.
Moot point. Sapphire will not warranty the card once I remove the cooling solution for a waterblock.
Does anybody know if XFX will warraty? Tthat is my other card. Tried to get MSI but never even saw them available. They went on sale in the US for a few minutes before Canada so I think stock was depleted before available.
Nope, sorry. Just wanted this for myself and felt like sharing.
It is a bit of work to get the light right and in LR I didn’t even have to remove that much.
That would be very different for the whole thing.
From seeing allot of benchmarks and numbers,
i´m personally a bit dissapointed about how Vega performs in gaming.
We had to wait long for this…
Of course drivers will improve performance over time.
But still, i was kinda expecting a bit more out of it.
Still i dont see any reason not to buy it if the price is right.
According to the article done at GamersNexus, it has basically been confirmed that AMD themselves has increased the price due to no-longer offering an applied-at-sale rebate that was given to newegg and other retailers when they went to buy cards. Prices will creep up due to miners, but the increase from $500 to $600 on V64 and $400 to $500 on V56 is due to AMD.
This seems to all be an extension of Vega hardware not being meant for games, and AMD trying to force it to sell, then trying to bait and switch the prices into a profitable range.
But that begs the question, what is it about HBM2 or AMD’s new caching system that sucks/is-not-optimised-for on games, but makes enough of a difference on the pro/server side that AMD was willing to make Vega almost non-viable for gaming?
Put another way, why does Vega seem to be fine for the Radeon Pro and Instinct product lines, but for RX the costly HBM seems to make it overpriced and do little else?
Especially when they advertise Radeon Pro for VR, I really just don’t get it. How can games, and presumably VR games as well, suck, but not Pro VR?
Buildzoid mentioned that in his last rant video a day ago or two. Honestly, software not showing the correct whatever number for something brand new… should not be that shocking anymore to anyone who has been around for a few hardware generations.
I was under the impression that it under-performs for its price (when AMD does not subsidise via the now-discontinued rebate); or at least that the Vega56 does.
“Suck” was a bit harsh I suppose, but the disconnect between Game vs Pro performance is baffling to me when it sounds like it also applies to “Game VR” vs “Pro VR”.
Rendering/Compute vs Display having widely different performance makes sense to me, but Display vs Display does not.
but yeah, they’re like that towards a lot of customers, these days.
