AMD Radeon Deals & Offers

You're replying to yourself... Anyway, why do you insist I'm angry just because I think this card is inferior to other Vega 56 AIB builds? The dual fan model I linked is much better. I assume this is the review? https://www.geeks3d.com/20180129/msi-radeon-rx-vega-56-air-boost-8gb-oc-review/ It's not exactly a stellar conclusion. And if you go by the conclusion... The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a solid alternative to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. Both GPUs are neck and neck: depending on the test, the RX Vega 56 is faster or slower than the GTX 1070. The RX Vega 56 has a TDP of 210W but with two 8-pin power connectors, the Radeon RX Vega 56 can draw up to 375W. I set the power limit to 150% TDP (the max!) and the card has flawlessly passed all burn-in tests with a power draw close to 300W. The blower cooler is a bit noisy in load but does its job correctly. At idle, the card is quiet. The card has a backplate and the GPU tachometer (or GPUTach) is a nice gadget! The only issue with Radeon RX Vega cards is that… they are not available! This MSI RX Vega 56 is the first RX Vega graphics card I can play with. It was time! You can pick up the 1070 for cheaper and it's got 2 fans. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/zotac-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-mini-8gb-graphics-card-with-free-fortnite-bundle-22996-del-scan-3190654 Plus it has some bonus stuff with it. Anyway, I'm not saying the 1070 is a better buy, I'd suggest not buying it either.

Geeks 3d say it's a solid product.l think I'll run with their opinion and the people's opinions who own the card including my own. Keep up the good work.

There you go again full of anger.lol

This is not a great product. I've said why. I'm neither uncalm nor unchill. Tacavas puts up good deals, I agree, but that doesn't mean the product itself is good. I hope one day you can be impartial and not make the discussion personal.

I think the main point is being missed here. For the price it's a very good deal that's why it's 313 degrees heat. Also Tacavas only puts good deals up. I really can't understand your constant arguing with other posters Nate1492 not just on this product but other products posted. I hope one day you calm down and chill.

I had this card but the temp was somewhere between 88 degrees to 92 which was quite worrying for me so I sent it back.

Not just turn ray tracing off

Any recent card will do that. Also quad processor doesn’t mean much. The first quad cpus 10+ years old now. If by handling you mean editing, use Blackmagic Resolve and buy this very card, as the RX580 is one of the ones they recommend.

Great card if u have 24” or less monitor that has native resolution 1080 and u have no real intention of gaming at 4k. Comparable with the 1060GTX.

If its just strictly for films not gaming your main priority will be noise. Most cards have can decode video decently these days. I used to have a low profile fanless card for playing blu ray films back when I had my media server.

Cheers pal; I bought it in the end and it got delivered yesterday. Haven’t used it much yet but it definitely looks the part!

I have this Asus laptop, no complaints at all and for that price it's certainly worth it.

I have this laptop. Make sure you buy an m2 SSD to go inside it. With the ssd mine is more than good enough.

I just got an https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07HH6T3P4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 from warehouse... is like new .. for 650... which one is better? should i return it and get this one or the Asus is way better?

Cheers bud! I think it might be the Asus for me. Most games I’d want to play will work on anything to be honest, I’m more console nowadays for that. My current laptop is ridiculously old and it’s painful to use. So I’m after any upgrade but don’t want to be in a position of missing out on a game that I might want to play on Windows, therefore I’m after a gaming laptop just in case... Never bought a laptop before, always acquired them (sounds like I steal, but they just appear) 😄 I used to be more about building PCs and I was all AMD but it’s been a looking time, so no idea what I’m looking at anymore!

Seems by the looks of it half the posts needed replies lol.

Seems like it needed a reply ;-) 344 watts of power is insane, that's almost as much as some entire PC builds use.

I just replying to the question i was asked. It didn't require follow up posts containing graphs

Depends what you mean, but I've used these recently. Geforce 970, 1070, 660ti Amd 480

Turing is not 'more bothersome to overclock' at all. MSI afterburner sliders are all you need to do. The latest set of Geforce cards are by far the *easiest* overclocks for GPUs in ages. And you can have lesser coolers on these cards and still overclock very well. The Palit review you linked has an out of the box OC of 9.2%, which is pretty amazing given it's size. The Vega 56 only has 'more headroom' if you pump it to the gills with power. But to suggest the Vega 56 is easier to overlcock? Have you seen all the required reading involved? Bios tweaks? Bios flashes? C'mon, I don't know why you'd even suggest that. The performance is within margin of error, and I wouldn't be so hasty to say the Vega 56 will 'last longer'. The card launch is nearing 2 years now and support for older cards wanes when the company moves on to newer cards. AMD doesn't have any 'magic drivers' anymore, so we're looking at the maximum performance form this card right now. Either way, I wouldn't give either card the 'performance edge'. As you said 'it depends on which games you intend to play'. My point was simply that over 23 games, the gap was reduced to a smaller number. Who knows what your actual gap will be

do you get the free games with this retailer?

That depends on the application used.

These any good for video production ?

Supplementary power connectors:1x 8-pin There's some that don't actually need any molex but get all power from the pcie... But this wants 1x 8 pin

what power connector do these need, is it 2 x 4 pin or 1 x 8 pin? been a long time since ive upgraded

Thought the game offer ended 6th April? I.e. you had to have applied by then. Looks like they have removed the banner on the page now?

Good price for this exact model of card but seriously have no idea who is buying an RX 590 and overlooking the much better value of the RX 570/580 while not buying a Vega 56 instead - must be a really strict set of buying requirements!

Good price for a good model card. Still might be worth holding on until July for Navi as I expect similar levels of performance or better with updated technology.

The oc Air boost model has a slightly higher clock speed otherwise they appear to be the same.

I really did sit on these deals too long trying to decide, seems the free games has gone for most cards now :( for some reason this card seems about the last one to offer free games, I'm guessing since it's a blower reference card it'll be no different to the airboost ones floating on here lately (but free games offers ended on them) I'm torn, but I feel like the deal for free games might be gone after today.

It’s right in between a 1070 and 1070ti. For £250 ish it’s best value card IMO. At £300 it becomes a toss up

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html

What GPU does it compete with

With just how much faster the 1660 is over the 1060/580, it's very much worth looking out for the 180-190 priced 1660s. 20% increase for a small price bump is worth it. I've tried to put prices on the cards. 130-150 1060/580 180-200 1660 220-230 1660ti But we've got 2 things coming up at the low end of the numbers. The 1650 is launching April 22nd. https://www.techpowerup.com/254228/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1650-availability-revealed This should compete at the 150-160 range. The good news? This will drive the 1060/580 down even further. The other possibility is the computex announcement for Navi on May 27th. This may be a paper launch, or something nice. It really depends, I wouldn't personally rush to buy a 3+ year old GPU right now though.

How has AMD managed to keep this absolute rubbish myth alive for so long? https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-nvidia-driver-updates-performance-tested,review-34465-13.html Conclusion: As expected, new video drivers increase frame rates in most titles, but the differences are often subtle. AMD averages a 2.3% speed-up across our benchmark suite, while Nvidia averages 4.3%. In some games, you will see noticeable improvements, with frame rate boosts as high as 15%. But in others, the change is so modest that you might not notice it. It's unlikely that a driver update will make a game that was formerly sluggish or unplayable suddenly run well on the same hardware. Which graphics card comes out ahead in this experiment? Whether you count the overall improvement from 2016 to 2018 or tally the total number of average frame rate wins, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 6GB bags the greatest number of victories. That's why AMD followed up its Radeon RX 480 with the RX 580 less than a year later. That's right, after 2 years, AMD averaged 2.3% increases while NVIDIA averaged 4.3% increases. This is *not impressive for either side, especially AMD*. Why do we keep suggesting that AMD will 'improve over time' and Nvidia will 'degrade'? This is an unsupported myth that seems to be randomly brought up with no basis. Let's put it to bed once and for all.

See, now you hit on another problem, Nvidia driver efficiency goes down for older games as time goes on, some games can easily go from 70FPS down to 60FPS on newer drivers which support the latest games whereas AMD seem to be the opposite with FPS actually coming up a bit over time. I think at this point, just buy whatever you're happy with, that's the main thing.

Yes if you play everyday for 4 solid years. I will agree you will at this point in time you will get more performance from the Nvidia card. But as driver optimization for Nvidia's old cards slows it will loose much of that advantage. But either one makes sense.

Poor soul. Must have kids