AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 versus AMD Radeon R9 Fury @ [H]

Taldren said:
I have a 2x R9 Fury X in cross fire and a 3440x1440 freesync monitor. Do I upgrade to Vega 56/64 or wait for the next cycle?
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Perhaps wait for the next cycle - or until prices drop due to Volta. I should have. My Fury X pair were painfree. You probably aren't running into limits on anything are you at your res.

I've got some quirks with the Vega they'll have to iron out in drivers. A hardware acceleration bug with chrome, a bezel correction bug with eyefinity, and frankly my AAA games, for the most part run slower on a single Vega liquid cooled, than my pair of Fury X. (Exception being when I bumped up against the 4GB RAM limit on the pair of Fury X, which happened at ultra settings on my 7680x1440 res).

I sold my Fury X pair on eBay for $135 less than the $810 Vega cost me. I'm having a wee bit of regret. I'm sure they'll get the new GPU kinks worked out given some time, so I'm sitting tight - not like I'd reverse course and buy back two Fury X, but at this particular junction it feels like a downgraded experience. I'm not very willing to spend another $800 on Vega for crossfire at this moment, but I might spend $300 or $400 more for a second card in the future to crossfire. (if crossfire on Vega was working). I have a pair of Vega 56 I bought to mine with. I might try those when they get the crossfire profile working.

Ultimately my experience with Crossfired Fury X for the last 7 months was absolutely flawless. Vegas drivers aren't to flawless status right now. If you wait a little while, prices might trend back to MSRP, and driver bugs should be ironed out. Win/Win. If you wait a year I bet you might see some $300 Vega cards (like we did with Fury)
 
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Taldren said:
I have a 2x R9 Fury X in cross fire and a 3440x1440 freesync monitor. Do I upgrade to Vega 56/64 or wait for the next cycle?
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The 56 with the 64 bios is a winner... and the next cycle is gonna be a long ways off.
 
ManofGod said:
Really?????? Where do you live? Newegg has them listed at $399 for the card alone and the prices have NOT gone up.
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They are all out of stock at Newegg. The listed prices haven't gone up, but you can't buy them.
 
Mackowitz said:
They are all out of stock at Newegg. The listed prices haven't gone up, but you can't buy them.
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I agree, you cannot buy them easily but, I think the person I quoted was insinuating that the prices are not $399, not that you could not easily buy them.
 
Olle P said:
Perhaps the most talented engineers went to work on Zen instead?
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I think they run out of money, as well as i'm sure I read a while ago that they had lost a lot of GPU talent to Apple a year or so ago.
 
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