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T-Minus (3) Days Until VEGA!!

Nde said:
I'm not trying to be rude or anything. I read many post about gaming here. What kind of game are we talking about? Battlefield 5, Fortnite, or Hello Kitty Adventure?
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Hello Kitty Aventure or perhaps Morrowind at 1080p :p

Seriously though, I suspect we are talking about new and/or demanding titles. Coming from the Nvidia Geforce 650m to the AMD Radeon Pro 460 was already quite a step up performance wise, so I think the Vega with its specs may give us a huge boost in performance again – assuming we get those updated Bootcampdrivers.com drivers and little to no CPU throttling...
 
i can gurantee there will not be that much of a performance gain....they always do this say the gain is this but in reality it is sub par....it will not be able to play any games at high settings
 
I went with the i7 and Vega 20 but was planning on putting it through its paces alongside a couple Windows laptops I have also. I have a thermal camera also, so I was going to see what kind of heat this thing has. Tracking says I'll have mine tomorrow.
 
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esaelias187 said:
i can gurantee there will not be that much of a performance gain....they always do this say the gain is this but in reality it is sub par....it will not be able to play any games at high settings
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I wouldn’t exactly say „any game“. If you are aiming at 60fps, 1080p and fully maxed details, then no, probably not. 900p at mostly high details should be quite possible however. Even the Radeon 460 was doing quite well at medium/high settings in Assassins Creed Odyssey. Fps ranging from 35 to 55.
 
Do we know the difference in performance between the Vega 16 and the Vega 20?
And also the difference between the Radeon 560 and the Vega 16.
 
mehdijobs said:
Do we know the difference in performance between the Vega 16 and the Vega 20?
And also the difference between the Radeon 560 and the Vega 16.
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You have two GPUs with the same core count.
You assume that both achieve the same level of performance per clock, and per core.

One has 900 MHz clock speed and 80 GB/s Memory Bandwidth.
Second one has 1185 MHz clock speed and 192 GB/s memory bandwidth.

How do you think it will affect performance?

Almost 300 MHz core clock increase plus over twice the amount of memory bandwidth. It will be around 30% faster. Around GTX 1050-1050 Ti performance levels.
 
Mine finally shipped from Mt Juliet Tn. I assumed others would be coming directly from China and not the USA. Says mine will be here tomorrow.
 
Would love to hear what specs your orders are if they're shipping; my CTO build is coming from Shanghai and taking its sweet time.
 
Seems like the 4TB option might've delayed mine. Oh well. Still hoping for tomorrow (it's in Alaska now) but I am guessing it'll be Friday...
 
Ugh this is killing me. I need to know so I can buy it! I want to replace my gaming PC with this and hoping it can play Windows games like BOPS4 ok with this new video card so I don't have to go the EGPU route for now.

I am seriously having a hard time deciding between it and the iMAC Pro, but the iMac is now dated hardware to me.
 
IdentityCrisis said:
Ugh this is killing me. I need to know so I can buy it! I want to replace my gaming PC with this and hoping it can play Windows games like BOPS4 ok with this new video card so I don't have to go the EGPU route for now.
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Black Ops 4 should run somewhere around 40-50 fps at FHD and medium settings. Give or take.
 
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The iMac Pro will still have a performance advantage over a laptop Vega.

I'm a happy iMac Pro owner but a high-end gaming machine it is not. You can build a dedicated gaming PC for the price of an option or two on a iMP or MBP.
 
leman said:
Black Ops 4 should run somewhere around 40-50 fps at FHD and medium settings. Give or take.
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I don’t know if playing games like that is worth it on a Mac. You’ll just end up hearing it scream bloody murder!
[doublepost=1542749567][/doublepost]All of you guys with super £4-5k spec’d rMBP Vega orders, I don’t know if you guys are brave or stupid. Everyday that Gen 3 butterfly thread, Reddit and YouTube keep propping up with some serious issues that would stop me even considering that now. Even AppleCare ends after 3 years and you’re £5k machine is subject to continuous expensive bills.

Other machines have issues to but it’s usually stuff like maybe a bit of cool whine, maybe the trackpad or keyboard isn’t the best, perhaps the backlight isn’t good on the keys, maybe it can sometimes run a bit louder than it could, or other software issues. At least those issues are either minor inconveniences or have some work arounds (eg fan profile settings, undervolting etc) but when a keyboard fails...

I’m also worried about some issues of restoring backups with the new T2 chips.

I bought the new Air but I’ll be returning it after being satisfied that not enough has been done to stop it from suffering the same fate as the MBP’s. Was secretly hoping for some minor revision seeing as this was a mass market product.
 
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RobbieTT said:
The iMac Pro will still have a performance advantage over a laptop Vega.

I'm a happy iMac Pro owner but a high-end gaming machine it is not. You can build a dedicated gaming PC for the price of an option or two on a iMP or MBP.
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The PC I built cost me $4k to build. So a little cheaper than a IMP, but not much.
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Cocoi said:
There's benchmarks in the other thread ("The "I just ordered / bought / got my new/refurb MBP" threads, merged.)
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Those weren't verified.
 
Ma2k5 said:
I don’t know if playing games like that is worth it on a Mac. You’ll just end up hearing it scream bloody murder!
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I do not understand what you saying. Who is going to scream what?


Ma2k5 said:
All of you guys with super £4-5k spec’d rMBP Vega orders, I don’t know if you guys are brave or stupid. Everyday that Gen 3 butterfly thread, Reddit and YouTube keep propping up with some serious issues that would stop me even considering that now.
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So I've checked that thread. Last pages are people arguing which gaming laptop has better battery life, then a report of an MBA user with a defective keyboard (didn't watch the video, so can't comment), plus a link to. reddit thread where one has a problem with the spacebar. Where are these "serious issues" you are talking about? You are aware of the fact that about 5-6% of MBP failures in 2014-2015 were because of keyboard? Before the butterfly keyboard made it to the MBP at all?
 
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