Allen
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AMD Radeon RX Vega Challenge At PDXLAN – Gaming Vega Is Almost Here
PDXLAN and the RX Vega Challenge – An Experiance, not a reveal.
...what is PDXLAN? It can only be described as LAN party heaven. There is a hectic schedule of events, contests, and announcements that will keep you running around and busy winning prizes..
..AMD did reveal the results of the polling and that returned some interesting results. It was a near perfect split in thirds. One third of people said they absolutely could not tell the difference, one third of people preferred the right side, and last but not least one third of people preferred the left side. Now these are just the raw numbers. During AMD’s presentation of this data, they brought up the pricing difference between comparable freesync and gsync monitors, both curved wide screen. The Freesync monitor was $499 and the G-Sync version was $949...
At PDXLAN, gamers played both an RX Vega machine and a GTX1080 machine -- but did not know which was which (like the Budapest post above).
Statistically, they could not tell the difference between RX Vega and GTX1080.
On a similar note:
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3DMark Fire Strike performance
First 3DMark scores of Radeon RX Vega are here. It may be too early to post them, but to be honest I don’t think final performance will be much different...
GTX 1080 was 22585 and RX Vega was 22330 -- 1 percent difference (invisible to the unaided eye). The release version of RX Vega may perform a bit better due to driver optimizations.
If these results hold up across the board, GTX1080 and RX Vega will compete on system cost. For example, as noted in the quote, an AMD supporting Freesync monitor is usually cheaper than an Nvidia supporting G-Sync with the same features.
