AMD GPUs

[SweatyFeetGirl]

Does the game feature them or no?

[spanki2]

Yes, 2 of them - AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64

[Metallos]

There are almost all nearly actual AMD GPUs in the game except the APUs.

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All AMD GPU's back to the R9/R7 200 series are in-game. Just not the FirePro series. No Workstation cards.

[spanki2]

Are you guys counting all those other brands like MSI and ASUS Radeons as AMD? Because I can see only two AMD graphic cards in the game. Vega 56 and 64.

[Jacknm2]

Originally posted by spanki2:

Are you guys counting all those other brands like MSI and ASUS Radeons as AMD? Because I can see only two AMD graphic cards in the game. Vega 56 and 64.

Yes, MSI / ASUS Gigabyte etc. are all "Board Partners" they typically design and manufacture their own custom PCB's and coolers mainly for power delivery and maximised cooling after they have applied their own stable overclocks if that tier of card has it.

However AMD and Nvidia still make the actual GPU and supply the board partners with them, it's only been in the last decade (broad guessing of time lol) really that the GPU manufacturers directly compete with their own partners, at least from what I can remember so don't quote me on that as I'm not completely sure about AMD's GPU division when it was still branded as ATI shortly after AMD bought them out.

Even though they compete the board partners typically provide the better GPU's but Nvidia and AMD both release their own Reference cards or "founders Editions" first then providing board partners with theirs, mainly on flagship / high end card releases. So they only compete for the first month of so and get those initial sales from die hards, then board partners come in and swoop the sales with the better performing cards due to the custom PCB's / cooling and overclocks.

[spanki2]

Ah, thatnks for the explanation! Very good read.

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Originally posted by spanki2:

Ah, thatnks for the explanation! Very good read.

Just to follow up the above posts: For the RX 480, RX 580 and RX 590 AMD does -NOT- produce any reference or "Founder's edition" versions of the cards. These gpu's are 100% entirely board-partner only. So all of those are all made by asus/msi/etc. There is no reference PCB either and all of these companies are completely free to make the cards any way they wish.

[Metallos]

Do you mean ingame or RL? In RL there were RX480 directly from AMD and board partners took also at first the reference design.
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/4/
https://www.tomshw.de/2016/06/29/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10-gpu/3/
(It's in German but shouldn't matter, you can see it also on the pictures).

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Originally posted by Metallos:

Do you mean ingame or RL? In RL there were RX480 directly from AMD and board partners took also at first the reference design.
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/4/
https://www.tomshw.de/2016/06/29/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10-gpu/3/
(It's in German but shouldn't matter, you can see it also on the pictures).

I was wrong. It's the 580 and 590 that were random board partner designs, and it's the RX 480 that did have a reference model. I wasn't thinking clearly.

[Metallos]

There was also a GPU on which the board partners had to stick to AMD reference design (PCB and crappy cooler) and later own designs were allowed. I don't know if it was the RX480 or earlier (like the 290).

The RX480 had also the "problem" with too much load on the 12 V over PCIe slot on some designs (even reference), didn't made problems with most boards but violates PCIE specs.
That was one reason why I've bought the Asus ROG Strix 480, keeps in specs and has a good cooler.