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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:
Well, I sure hope that RX Vega will be a lot better than Vega FE in gaming, because if it has the same IPC than Fury X, then it will be a huge disappointment.

Vega has much more DX Functionality which the previous itinerations of GCN are all still missing. However, these are not fully unlocked in the drivers yet and will take some time until they're ready (tiled ressources and rasterization functionality, to be specific).

In other words, AMD is concentrating now on it's drivers to get Vega's power to the ground. They are optimized for GCN 1-4 and are now working to optimize GCN5 too. I expect the first benchmarks to be not too great but have huge jumps as the drivers get better, closing the gap to the 1080Ti over time

My comment, was in response to those Gamernexus benchmarks results with Vega performing on par (or even a tad worse) than FuryX at the same frequencies. Of coursem this is based on the enterprise level Vega and we'll have to wait for the consumer version of it to take any conclusion, but it still looks a bit worrying.

 

And yes, AMD is already doing some of that MCM thing in their CPUs, and that has shown us  that the interconnection mesh is very important, and having it tied to the RAM speed in the Ryzen CPUs is a problem in some scenarios. They'll have to come up with something different for their GPUs.