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posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @04:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the graphic-news dept.

AMD has announced two new GPUs, the Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56. The GPUs are named in reference to the amount of "compute units" included. Both GPUs have 8 GB of High Bandwidth Memory 2.0 VRAM and will be released on August 14.

The Vega 64 is priced at $500 and is said to be on par with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080. The GTX 1080 was released on May 27, 2016 and has a TDP 105 Watts lower than the Vega 64.

Previously: AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:25PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:25PM (#548039) Journal

    The R7 240 is not high mid range. It is low end, a hint being the $70-80 price tag. You were fooled by the "High to Mid Range" description of the list at videocardbenchmark.net. From what I can tell it's more like the middle of a long list with the bottom being goddamn old and slow cards. You have to be careful with PassMark period, as the numbers can be misleading.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/9217/the-amd-a8-7650k-apu-review-also-new-testing-methodology/7 [anandtech.com]
    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html [tomshardware.com]

    Nvidia's GT 1030 [videocardbenchmark.net] is around that price and more than double the PassMark at 2281.

    Linux hostile? Maybe more like open source hostile [pcworld.com].

    Now we could call this an epic fail on your part right here, but from the AnandTech benchmarks linked above and this video [youtube.com], you can see that the R7 240 can run modern games at well over 7 FPS. So what's the problem then?

    I can only conclude that Trainz: A New Era is a crappily coded title. Lo and behold [steamcommunity.com]:

    Brand new system:

    Intel 5930k
    Asus X99 Pro MB
    16 GB Corsair 2666 MHz
    2x 980GTX (SLI)

    Fresh Win 7 Install, fully updated, newest drivers all around.

    Max settings both in launcher and in-game.

    Result: 8 FPS

    Total system price: 3000+ $

    So sad...

    Yeah that is a real tear jerker. On the bright side, no other game should give you any problems.

    let me guess...........you maxed out view distance and set shadows to 4096.........DON'TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT until it's patched more.

    Same here high end PC SLI 4GB cards and horrible FPS. People have been complaining since day one, this was nothing but a money grab and the next time they release something remember this. Burn me once shame on you burn me twice shame on me.

    Well. Back in 2015 and 2014, the game was poorly optimised for everything. SP1 Hotfix 4 makes the game a lot better. You only need to be patient.

    I know shadows are not the best yet, but what
    I noticed the most is, that 1920 x 1080 : 60Hz is the maximum resolution to get good FPS (30) Less than 30 FPS means lags. I can run the game with no lags. Shadows off, tree detail normal, scenery detail highest, post procesing low, draw distance 15 000 + meters (yes I ovverrided the distance)
    These are my current settings. Simply, download and install SP1, you get performanced trees. When you upgrade to SP1 HT4, you will get the best performance in entire game.

    Give it little time, and this game will be a lot better than any other trianz game.

    Back in July 2015 I was one of the people complaining about Trainz and how badly it looked and run but I have to say, after SP1 and now SP2 Trainz has improved hugely. I'm enjoying Trainz very much now, I think it looks very good, especially with some addons and runs very smooth.

    User created content and long view distances probably hurt too, but you picked the wrong title to judge the state of GPUs by. Make sure you update Trainz to SP2 (horrible patch names for a reason that should be obvious) and come back.

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