Armenius
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I think AMD's divorce from GloFo is really going to help them. I am very anxious to see what they are going to be able to do on TSMC's 7nm.Vega struck me, since its release, as a stretch for AMD. They really had to milk it to get 1080-level performance out of it. Where Ryzen exceeded many performance targets, Vega only just barely made it.
Seeing these benchmarks, Vega isn't bad. But it's not what AMD really needed, either. It's somewhere in between. Neither an utter failure or an unqualified success. Still, this is better than no high end presence at all.
I hope the next GPU out of AMD brings us more competition. Nvidia is killing it from a performance angle, but their pricing and anti-competitive practices are just screaming for real competition again.
And, lol, my old 7970 still continues to serve in my HTPC, and dual 7970s still run my old arcade/console emulator build. GCN forever, lolol.