They couldn't compete in terms of high end performance for a long time. But nowadays they even lose the price-performance ratio of entry->mid level GPUs.
Not really. Entry->Mid level is RX 560, RX 570 and RX 580. RX 560 is a mixed bag, but both RX 570 and RX 580 are competitive and a bit superior to the Nvidia alternatives - as long as they are not overpriced, which they were till early this month. So the market just has to reach the regular prices AMD aimed for initially for those series to work fine.
But one can be concerned about the utter failure of high end Vega.
I personally have been running a RX480 8GB since the day they were released and I haven't hit a game that can't run at an excellent framerate even for my 144hz monitor, so I don't have a concern yet :) It was a amazing deal for just $263.98 at release. From the looks of the benchmarks the Vega 64 is leaps and bounds faster as well.
As far as VR goes, I think they're in the early stages still -- they need to improve the lenses, resolution and refresh rate before I will be buying in so I don't yet need the VR frame rates. At the current level I'm sure the Vegas would handle VR fine though since it seems to outperform nvidia slightly.
Ive got an RX-580 in my gaming desktop. Couldn't be happier.
And the integrated Vega graphics in their Ryzen mobile processors are nothing to sneeze at. Getting performance comparable to some of the low-end nVidia cards.
onli|7 years ago
But one can be concerned about the utter failure of high end Vega.
chemmail|7 years ago
radium3d|7 years ago
As far as VR goes, I think they're in the early stages still -- they need to improve the lenses, resolution and refresh rate before I will be buying in so I don't yet need the VR frame rates. At the current level I'm sure the Vegas would handle VR fine though since it seems to outperform nvidia slightly.
holtalanm|7 years ago
And the integrated Vega graphics in their Ryzen mobile processors are nothing to sneeze at. Getting performance comparable to some of the low-end nVidia cards.