The link you provided is a review of the Frontier edition. Isn't the Frontier edition a workstation level video card. I haven't seen any benchmarks on the RX Vegas.
The Frontier editions have drivers to play games but they are not optimized for it. The RX Vegas are the gaming video cards.
Would this be better than those Vega cards that people are holding out for?
The truth is we don't 100% know, since we don't have benchmarks for Vega gaming cards yet (Vega RX gaming cards are being announced at Siggraph which starts today). Stock is likely to be low (Vega uses HBM2 which doesn't have much supply right now) initially, and they probably won't be for sale for a couple weeks. The card quoted in a previous post is the frontier edition, which may or may not be reflective of RX Vega gaming performance. The FE is not being sold, marketed, or positioned as a gaming card (more of a content creation card that can game). All that said, it uses the same die, and it seems unlikely RX Vega (the gaming card) performance will be significantly better unless AMD pulls off a minor miracle.
It seems likely that the 1080 ti here will perform better than the top-end gaming Vega card. The top-end Vega card seems likely to be priced similar to a 1080 (lower tier card that doesn't perform as well as the 1080ti), and performance may be similar (and likely with higher power draw). Reasonable best case scenario would probably be performance between the 1080 and 1080 ti at 1080 prices. Reasonable worst case scenario would be FE performance at a price higher than the 1080s.
Another factor that may complicate things is if you want or use a G-Sync or Freesync monitor. G-Sync is proprietary to NVidia, whereas Freesync is an open standard. G-Sync monitors tend to cost a couple hundred dollars more for similar features and performance.
If I were buying a card right now without considering Freesync versus G-sync, I'd get this card.
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After my purchase... I earned $7+ in eBay bucks back too.
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Vega is pretty much a $hit show at this point...
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The link you provided is a review of the Frontier edition. Isn't the Frontier edition a workstation level video card. I haven't seen any benchmarks on the RX Vegas.
The Frontier editions have drivers to play games but they are not optimized for it. The RX Vegas are the gaming video cards.
http://www.techradar.c
Yeah, sad for me
It seems likely that the 1080 ti here will perform better than the top-end gaming Vega card. The top-end Vega card seems likely to be priced similar to a 1080 (lower tier card that doesn't perform as well as the 1080ti), and performance may be similar (and likely with higher power draw). Reasonable best case scenario would probably be performance between the 1080 and 1080 ti at 1080 prices. Reasonable worst case scenario would be FE performance at a price higher than the 1080s.
Another factor that may complicate things is if you want or use a G-Sync or Freesync monitor. G-Sync is proprietary to NVidia, whereas Freesync is an open standard. G-Sync monitors tend to cost a couple hundred dollars more for similar features and performance.
If I were buying a card right now without considering Freesync versus G-sync, I'd get this card.