Me and my upgrades are at it again... Help!

[Pemalite]

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

For me Ryzen was everything I expected. It allowed for AMD to play catch up to Intel, but not beat them. At a lower price.
More still needs to be done before we can say they knocked it out of the Park though, some high-end motherboards and chipsets would be nice.

I'm thinking in between the 1080 and 1080Ti from the information (Which would probably be outdated by now) that I have gleaned.
Vega should show it's true colours at high resolutions and Async Compute scenarios though.

I wish I was that optimistic. So far, we've only seen Vega demoed using Doom at CES at 4K, and it was roughly on par with a GTX 1080. Given that Doom was using Vulkan (iirc) and that AMD performs better than Nvidia in DX12 and Vulkan, I'm affraid that Vega will fall short of the 1080 in most cases.

By the way, have you heard the news of Vega having 4 & 8GB versions, or the news of new AMD CPUs with 12 and 16 cores, paired with newer chips (X390)?

To be fair, Vega is using the new NCU architecture... It's going to take time to bring performance up via drivers, they still won't take the performance crown from the 1080Ti, Titan X, Pascal Refresh or Volta. No chance of that.
Doom is an interesting scenario, it may not be pushing the full 8GB of HBM2 memory to it's limits, need more data from more games, Fury managed to age well once games advanced to a certain degree for instance. (And then hit a wall once games extended over 4GB of GPU memory.)
It gave the 900 series a run for it's money that's for sure.

We also need to remember that like Polaris there are two chips, one high-end, one low-end, the low-end Vega should be doing battle with the Geforce 1070.

AMD will then fill out the rest of the 500 series lineup with GPU's from the last half decade, the RX 480 8Gb rebadge+higher clocks? Should be taking the fight to the 1060.