AMD Shows off Radeon RX Vega in Budapest

Radeon Technologies Group allowed the public to play with the upcoming RX Vega GPU at its community event in Hungary.

Chris Jarrard

July 18, 2017 2:35 PM

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AMD’s long awaited high-end GPU is less than two weeks away from its expected unveiling at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. In the meantime, AMD’s Radeon team held an event in Budapest today as part of their pre-release RX Vega roadshow. While the RX Vega has been teased at various events over the last year, today marked the first time that the public got its hands on the GPU. The event was dubbed as an RX Community meet-up by AMD and was certainly different from your typical halo product demonstration.

The extent of the Radeon RX Vega demonstration was a pair of PCs at one end of the room for players to try. Both setups featured 3440x1440p ultrawide displays running at 100Hz. One PC included the RX Vega using Freesync adaptive sync and the other PC was using an unidentified nVidia GPU using G-Sync adaptive sync. Players were invited to try the machines under supervision of the Radeon team. Battlefield 1 and Sniper Elite 4 where the game reported to be running on the pair of PCs. No frame rate data was shown for either machine and reports from those in attendance said the AMD reps spent lots of time talking about how both setups offered an identical experience, with one of them costing $300 less to the end user. It was reportedly never revealed which PC contained the RX Vega GPU. According to some first hand accounts on Reddit and Twitter, the PC seated on the left hand side of the room felt noticeably smoother, despite claims from the marketing team that the experiences should feel identical.

The RX Community Meetup was not an event meant for the tech press, but for fans of the Radeon brand. Participants got a chance to see other Radeon products and get their hands on some swag.

Not all attendees were impressed by the event, as seen on Twitter afterwards -

Expect all the news, benchmarks, and reactions you can handle when the Radeon RX Vega is shown off at SIGGRAPH on July 31st.

Chris Jarrard

Contributing Tech Editor

Chris Jarrard likes playing games, crankin' tunes, and looking for fights on obscure online message boards. He understands that breakfast food is the only true food. Don't @ him.