I don't think anyone forgot about this card. I was lucky enough to get one at 499 brand new right before the mining craze bought them all up. Great GPU.
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This and the r9 295x2 are the coolest GPUs ever released. Obviously not for gaming but they are just so cool.
My favorites were the 512bit bus monsters from 20 years ago. With raytracing being so memory and power intensive it kills me that we haven't gotten a monster like the 8800gtx again
The Radeon 290 / 390 had 512-bit. I had a 390, it was a beast, better than the Fury cards and Maxwell. Outlasted everything, especially when vulkan and dx12 started taking off.
GCN was NEVER BAD. The only thing wrong with GCN was AMD's drivers and optimization. Vega has the same functionality as RDNA1, but never got the optimization of RDNA1. EXCEPT if you install the NimeZ drivers, then you know AMD started deliberately sandbagging their drivers to sell RDNA.
It seems that today the best way to use GCN is using Linux, because you get support for the entire GCN stack AND real features like ReBar and driver optimization because you're using vulkan over DXVK.
That's right the 390 was a 512 bit card. And it was a beast. I had a 7970 that lasted for a long time as a capable GPU.
My partner's old R9 295x2 is sitting in a display cabinet with our anime figures. It's a obscene monster of a card, comparable in size to more recent flagship GPUs. It absolutely dwarfs other flagship GPUs of the time other than the equally stupid Titan X.
It was a pretty good deal when they got it, but Crossfire was almost never useful. Shame, that.
R9 Nano also...
I've got one in my pc atm and a broken one beside it, absolutely love it still
Bought my RVII in 2019 for $699 + tax and sold it for $2000 in 2021. Perfect card for mining.
HOT DAMN!
I always liked the card, but hated how they did the naming for these
RX 500 = > VEGA = > VII => RX5000 series
Like WTF is that?
Similar story I got my VII in 2019 but it was open box at a local Microcenter. 530$ out the door with tax. Sold it for 2200$ in 2021. I really wanted to try that card on water though but $$$ talks!
Kinda same here, had a RX580 8GB. Bought for $300CAD , sold for $700CAD in 2021.
I had one in between a 1080ti and a 2080. I wanted to like it, I had it under an EK vector water block in a custom loop and everything. It just did not play nice with games I played at the time and I ended up selling it to get a 2080. I wish I would have held onto it though because they were going for big money during the mining craze.
Same, returned the radeon and got the 2080
What are you running today? Still on the 2080? After the 2080, I went 3080 10gb and now I'm running a 6950xt.
Why did you replace the 1080 Ti? Both the VII and 2080 are barely faster
I thought my 1080ti was acting funny and might be dying so I picked up a VII to replace it while I could still sell it.
its a beast of a minig card.
The Vega FE was a pretty dang looking card to.
I had one. I sold it to some crypto nut for twice what I paid for it. It was a nice card, but had some issues.
Thing was a beast in every way. There was a ton if propaganda calling it a bad GPU or worse than Nvidia. But if you knew how to use it and cater to it's strengths, it was actually the most powerful GPU of its era.