Building up to AMD's Vega GPUs
4,911When I made this video it wasn't even out, but I pieced together all of the information we knew about it building up to its launch in the hope of capturing what it felt like to be almost there... but not quite. Here, I cover its story, from announcement up until a few weeks before official benchmarks.
0:07 - Vega on the roadmaps, speculation about announcement
2:04 - Pre-announcement framerates and information
2:44 - AMD's After the Uprising
4:23 - Responses to announcement
5:07 - Later events that mention Vega
6:27 - Vega FE release
7:00 - RX Vega's marketing
8:04 - Fury X VS 1080 frametimes - Think I've found the reason: AA! https://youtu.be/zEfRi5pBQr4
8:26 - RX Vega's price and offers
9:40 - Finewine
Hoping that this video will get people up to date with the situation and that it will be interesting to look back in in the future, when things have long moved on. I've tried my best to be factual though I also share my hate of fanboys from both sides on a number of my videos as I thought it was quite a big part of the Vega story to date. In short: see this video as entertainment, and follow up on the references below if you want to learn more.
0:07 – AMD Roadmap - https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/03/amd-gpu-vega-navi-revealed/
0:15 – Pascal reveal - http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-geforce-gtx-1080-8gb-gddr5x-based-on-pascal-gpu-in-may.html
2:00 – Vega in H1 2017 - http://wccftech.com/vega-gpu-coming-1h-2017/
2:22 – Vega on Doom in Dec 2016, by Tekknological - https://youtu.be/4_oI1K6rt48
2:36 – Vega VS Geforce 1080 – by Bang4BuckPC Gamer - https://youtu.be/13V8lYS--Pg?t=2m46s
2:44 – AMD After the Uprising - https://youtu.be/9R8F-aN6W4g
3:07 – Vega’s new features - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vega-architecture-new-features,33265.html
3:15 - AMD’s Doom demo, January 2017 - https://youtu.be/Ku5OMWYVKSs
3:28 – AMD’s Making of drums - https://youtu.be/t6CrvyXeT9Q
3:35 – Think Computer’s Vega Star Wars at CES - https://youtu.be/fkvj-uij42M
4:07 – AdoredTV’s sandbagging possibility - https://youtu.be/C4BUb6wSSXk?t=14m36s
4:23 – AdoredTV saying it isn’t good enough - https://youtu.be/UuchUscHWSw?t=11m36s
5:07 - AMD’s Capsaicin and Cream event - https://youtu.be/ZVKDNeyfpAo
5:23 – Vega running Sniper Elite 4 – by DEE BATCH - https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg?t=49m58s
5:45 - AMD’s Computex 2017 - https://youtu.be/oWMGUdWVw2Y
6:12 - Vega’s release announcement - https://youtu.be/oWMGUdWVw2Y?t=53m20s
6:21 – Anandtech’s RX Vega release slated for Aug 14th - http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680/radeon-rx-vega-unveiled-amd-announecs-499-rx-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august
6:21 – Gamersnexus also covers launch price - http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3004-rx-vega-64-and-vega-56-power-specs-price
6:28 – Anandtech’s Vega FE release announcement - http://www.anandtech.com/show/11583/amds-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-formally-launches-air-cooled-for-999-liquid-cooled-for-1499
6:33 – Pictures of Vega from this review - https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Radeon-Vega-Frontier-Edition-16GB-Air-Cooled-Review
6:46 – Gamersnexus conclusion on Vega - http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2973-amd-vega-frontier-edition-reviewed-too-soon-to-call/page-5
7:05 – Pictures from WCCFTech’s article here - http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-gtx-1080-battlefield-1-comparison/
7:24 – Slides from AMD’s RX Vega launch - http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75782-amd-reveals-rx-vega-price-performance-specs.html
7:58 – freesync monitors - http://hexus.net/tech/news/monitors/92624-amd-lists-refresh-rate-ranges-freesync-monitors-available/
8:01 – gsync monitors - https://pcmonitors.info/others/nvidia-g-sync-variable-refresh-rate-technology/
8:11 – Fcat comparison - http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/fcat_geforce_gtx_1080_framepacing_review,16.html
8:16 – Anandtech comparison - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1714?vs=1720
9:22 – Vega’s page on Radeon’s site - https://gaming.radeon.com/en-us/rxvega/
9:53 - Anandtech’s Rasterisation article 1 - http://www.anandtech.com/show/11002/the-amd-vega-gpu-architecture-teaser/3
9:58 – Anandtech’s Rasterisation article 2 - http://www.anandtech.com/show/10536/nvidia-maxwell-tile-rasterization-analysis
10:03 – No tile based rasterizing enabled on Vega yet - http://digiworthy.com/2017/06/30/amd-vega-frontier-tile-based-rasterizer/
Impact Prelude Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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