Video Cards & GPUs - Page 326
All the latest graphics cards and GPU news, with everything related to Intel Arc, NVIDIA GeForce, AMD Radeon & plenty more - Page 326.
PCIe 4.0 arrives in 2017, PCIe 5.0 comes in 2019
We're currently going through the first few weeks of AMD's new Radeon RX Vega graphics card launch, and we're now hearing about PCI-Express 4.0 and 5.0 from PCI-SIG, the organization behind the PCI-Express standard.
The upcoming PCIe 4.0 standard will ramp up the interconnect bandwidth from 8GT/s to 16GT/s, and will arrive sometime next year.
Then the big leap happens with PCIe 5.0 which will push it right up to 32GT/s, offering 128GB/sec through the PCIe 5.0 slot (compared to just 32GB/sec from PCIe 3.0 and 64GB/sec from PCIe 4.0).
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AMD launches Radeon RX Vega 56, priced at just $399
AMD has just launched its Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, which is available right now in reference form, for $399. I talked with AMD on the phone yesterday, where they reiterated their stance on the $399 price, ensuring that AMD are underlining the sub $400 pricing.
Unfortunately, there aren't many Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics cards available with the limited supply being eaten up ridiculously fast, with more stock coming in the next couple of weeks. If you can get your hands-on the RX Vega 56, you'll be able to enjoy some 1080p and 1440p gaming at 60FPS+ which competes directly against the GeForce GTX 1070 from NVIDIA.
Pricing and availability aside, the Radeon RX Vega 56 is AMD's best Vega-based graphics card in my opinion. Radeon RX Vega 64 is priced too close, and in some cases more than the GTX 1080 and closer to GTX 1080 Ti, without having the performance to back up its massive price tag, power consumption and heat. Radeon RX Vega 56 is a much better alternative to the GTX 1070 if you're a FreeSync monitor owner, or Team Red supporter.
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AMD ships over 25,000 Radeon RX Vega graphics cards
You can't knock AMD for getting Radeon RX Vega onto the market, and while it might have been late and not received as well as some thought, the cards are here - and there are tens of thousands of them so far.
I spoke to an industry source who didn't want to be named today, who said that AMD have shipped over 25,000 cards in the last two and a half weeks since Radeon RX Vega hit the market. Remember that AMD has only launched Radeon RX Vega 64, and not the Radeon RX Vega 56, which will be the more popular card of the two.
AMD will be launching Radeon RX Vega 56 very soon, and as we get closer to it, I will be doing much deeper testing into the real-world gaming performance of it. We'll be doing tests with DOOM, Quake Champions, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and more at 1080p, 1440p, and 3440x1440.
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AMD Radeon RX Vega shortage until October
Earlier this year my exclusive story about AMD only having around 16,000 units of its Radeon RX Vega graphics cards for the most proceeding the launch, and here we are now - with news that AMD will experience stock shortages until October.
According to DigiTimes' sources, AMD won't have Radeon RX Vega in larger numbers until October. Other sources claim that AMD are having issues with their Advanced Semiconductor Engineering packaging technology, but you know what? It doesn't matter what problems AMD are having, from their perspective - the Vega launch is nothing but a gigantic success.
But then you read the comments from people all over the internet calling the Vega launch the "worst GPU launch ever" and that it's "worse than the Fermi/GTX 480 launch"... and all I can do is agree. This isn't good, and we're not getting the full truth from AMD. The other thing that sucks is that AMD had such a great year from Ryzen and Threadripper, but Vega wasn't just mediocre, it has bombed.
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WTF: Radeon RX Vega 64 costs $675 minimum for retailers
If the scandals surrounding Radeon RX Vega 64 pricing weren't bad enough already, with AMD announcing it for $499 and then jacking the price up to $599... well now retailers are coughing up over $675 for the card.
A new report from TPU states that San Jose-based Ma Laboratories Inc. are charging $675 per Radeon RX Vega 64 air cooled card to computer stores. Now remember that AMD themselves launched RX Vega 64 @ $499... allowing retailers to make profits. But at much higher cost prices, retailers are going to be hurting significantly. I worked IT retail selling consumer PC components for 10 years, and if this were the case for my store - I would simply not stock Radeon on the shelves until the prices settled down.
Miners can't be blamed for this, as even with the new crypto-specific drivers and the Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition, I'm only getting 40MH/s of Ethereum mining performance. This is a good result, but considering I'm chewing close to 600W to do it... yeah, it's not good at all... and very unstable.
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GeForce 385.41 drivers released, LOTS of improvements
NVIDIA is strengthening its position with gamers, offering up their new GeForce 385.41 drivers which are Game Ready and optimized for what will surely be one of the biggest releases of the year: Destiny 2.
There are also some major improvements to ARK: Survival Evolved, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, F1 2017, Quake Champions, and more. Here's what to expect from NVIDIA's new GeForce 385.41 drivers, which you can download right here - or through GeForce Experience.
Feature Changes
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ASUS tease ROG Strix RX Vega 56 OC Edition graphics card
It seems ASUS is working with AMD closely on the new Radeon RX Vega series of graphics cards, with ASUS being the first with a custom RX Vega 64 graphics card, and now again with RX Vega 56.
The new ASUS ROG Strix Vega 56 OC Edition 8GB features Aura Sync RGB technology, a triple-fan cooler and 2.5-slot design.
The card requires dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and rocks a DVI connector if you're still running an older LCD.
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64: now $700+ on Amazon and Newegg
AMD might have launched Radeon RX Vega 56 at "$399" and the slightly faster Radeon RX Vega 64 at "$499" but those prices quickly changed for a reason that is, well... I don't even freakin' know. Remember our world exclusive piece on AMD having less than 16,000 units of Radeon RX Vega post-launch, and this continues to ring true as time goes on.
Both AMD and NVIDIA blame miners for global GPU shortages, and then gamers (for buying them so quickly with so much enthusiasm), and then there's reports of $100 rebates to partners and retailers that had exhausted them so quickly (from the lack of actual RX Vega cards) that the price shot up $100 overnight. Well, now it's even worse.
Having a quick look on Amazon and Newegg shows us that Radeon RX Vega 64 air-cooled is $719... far from the "$499" - and I keep using inverted commas because AMD launched RX Vega 64 at $499, but then it was $599 - and now it's $700+... I just don't know what to say anymore. But hey... you get Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Prey.
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Hollywood, not miners, gobbling up Radeon RX Vega supply
I remember AMD starting off their Ryzen Tech Day earlier this month in LA talking about how cryptocurrency miners are eating up all of the global GPU stock of Radeon RX series graphics cards. They were careful in launching their AMD Radeon RX Vega series of cards with miners waiting with bated breath on Vega performance.
Then came the #FakeNews that AMD Radeon RX Vega was pushing 100MH/s mining Ethereum, and anyone who mines Ethereum (like myself) knows that was pure "Hollywood magic", a spectacle. A performance; something that wasn't real, but perceived, as real. This turned out to be so completely unfounded, as I'm looking to my left and seeing the top of the line Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition and it is only pushing 33.6MH/s... This is only one-third of what the #FakeNews on RX Vega 64 mining performance.
But now Digital Trends has a story about AMD "Radeon" Studios, which is one of the better moves that AMD has done in the last couple of years - something you can read about here. One of the facts of Radeon Studios is Project 47, another one of the better things AMD has done in the last couple of years. Project 47 is a beast of a PC that has 1 petaflop of performance... perfect for Hollywood level operations.
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HTC slices $200 from Vive price, now costs $599
Oculus cut the price of the Oculus Rift + Touch combo not too long ago now, but now HTC has followed through with a price cut of its own: $200 off the HTC Vive headset, bringing it down to just $599.
HTC said that the new $599 price on Vive isn't about getting rid of its first-gen headsets, but it's a competitive move against Oculus and its cut throat pricing. Oculus Rift + Touch is still $449, but at $150 cheaper is Oculus offering a better deal? Well, considering you get the controllers in the package - with HTC and Valve building the Vive with the Lighthouse controllers in mind - while Oculus sliced their developers in half offering an Xbox 360 controller in the box and then releasing Touch separately.
Now that the HTC Vive is $599. will you be stepping into the world of VR?
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