Recent content by Schmave

I managed to snag a 5800x directly from AMD on their own website last week. The day I bought it they actually were in stock for a couple of hours.

I voted NO. That said, if you feel it is in your best interest to sign it, then go ahead and do so. But I wanted to throw a few things out there: As a long time [H] reader, I will always read [H] GPU reviews, even if they were to come out a couple of weeks after launch. I think most regular...

Crap like this is one of the reasons my last two cards have been AMD cards. Nvidia has a history of engaging in anti-consumer business practices. I think all gamers need to seriously factor this into their next GPU purchase. I totally understand that Nvidia has a technology advantage these...

Actually, Kyle, do you know which Radeon chip is in this product? It says it is custom but it must be closest to some family of chips (Vega maybe)?

I just want to say kudos to Kyle for getting this info so long ago and sticking to his guns when all the haters were calling him a liar. Good job Kyle. :-)

Yeah, he is probably right. How many years of experience does he have in the industry? 30? He knows basically the entire history of 3D graphics development and probably understands why the hardware and software are what they are today better than most people that work at AMD or Nvidia. The...

Thanks for the article guys! It sounds like getting everything working just so was a PITA. It makes me wonder WTF AMD was up to during the entire development of Vega. Were they simply adding pipelining registers to the logic to allow it to clock higher? You guys pretty much summed it up in...

I guess that's why they are marketing this more as a compute type card (Vega FE, Instinct). It seems to have the raw compute power, but things like memory bandwidth, geometry throughput, etc. are holding it back for other applications.

One thing I got from the PCPer article on the H2O cooled FE edition is that on the synthetic tests (3D Mark, Unigine Heaven) Vega is not much faster than Fury X. On Firestrike Extreme it is 34.5% faster, Firestrike Ultra it is 31.2% faster, and Heaven it is only 23.3% faster. These are all...

Damn, this thing is barely faster than a 1070 in most of those gaming tests. WTF?

I don't think they are going to be sending any to reviewers. AT has this brief article up: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11583/amds-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-formally-launches-air-cooled-for-999-liquid-cooled-for-1499 In the comments Ryan Smith says they are not being sampled a Vega FE...

Who knows, maybe it is a cut down Vega chip with HBM2 on the same package as the CPU. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Yes, they say that RAW files are identified as photos, but when I started using Amazon cloud drive the RAW files from my camera (Canon 70D) were not counted as photos but instead counted toward my storage quota. I think it depends on the camera that produced the RAW file. Maybe like the cloud...

After seeing this thread I checked ebay and Sapphire Nitro RX 480s are going for well over $350...this is tempting me to sell mine and get a 1070 or maybe even move up to a 1080. I'm seriously thinking about it...

Well this sucks. I primarily just use my Amazon cloud drive for photo/video storage, BUT they don't count RAW files and video files toward your free uploads. So those types of files get counted in the amount of data you are using. I guess I'll have to find a different cloud provider for backup.