AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Reviews [*UPDATED* Aug 28]

[IEC]

Vega 64 looks bad, especially at Newegg's price of $599 for the terrible reference blower model. Hot, loud, and basically trades blows with a GTX 1080.

Vega 56 custom cards on the other hand may be quite viable. The reference cards are 90% of the performance of Vega 64 at $399, and use roughly 2/3 the power.

So some better binned Vega 56 cards with custom coolers could potentially match reference Vega 64 performance at a GTX 1070 pricepoint.

 

[Zstream]

Vega 64 looks bad, especially at Newegg's price of $599 for the terrible reference blower model. Hot, loud, and basically trades blows with a GTX 1080.

Vega 56 custom cards on the other hand may be quite viable. The reference cards are 90% of the performance of Vega 64 at $399, and use roughly 2/3 the power.

So some better binned Vega 56 cards with custom coolers could potentially match reference Vega 64 performance at a GTX 1070 pricepoint.

I bet you could low volt Vega 56, hoping that a 3rd party will do that for us.

 

[insertcarehere]

Are there any reviews that pit the Vega 56/64s against aftermarket 1070/80s, instead of the founders editon that no one sane buys anymore?

 

[tential]

Vega 64 looks bad, especially at Newegg's price of $599 for the terrible reference blower model. Hot, loud, and basically trades blows with a GTX 1080.

Vega 56 custom cards on the other hand may be quite viable. The reference cards are 90% of the performance of Vega 64 at $399, and use roughly 2/3 the power.

So some better binned Vega 56 cards with custom coolers could potentially match reference Vega 64 performance at a GTX 1070 pricepoint.

So after all the price was the price of the bundle.
There is ONE card at $499. Just to be true to the marketing.... lol.

 

[mohit9206]

Really impressed with Vega 56..in many benchmarks its only slightly behind the Vega 64 and ahead of the 1070 in most tests that i've seen.

Yes me too am also very impressed with Vega 56. Its cheaper, faster and consumes less power than 1070 right?

Sorry But whatever you want to say,I'm sure you say this, base on Your level of Hate toward AMD , Fermi is one of worse GPUs in the History because :

1) Temperature
2) Lack of DX12 Features
3) Power Draw
4) Compatibility With DX 12

There is still potential performance inside Vega that AMD will pull it soon.Remember R9 290 Vs 780 , Now look where R9 290 stands.no one care about 780 but only R9 290/390.
Vega is a failure because :

1) 15 Month
2) for same performance , It needs to draw more power

But It's not worse than Fermi.Go google it,there are ton of memes about Fermi.

DX12 wasn't even a thing is 2010,DX11 was still very new. That's like saying Vega sucks because it doesn't have support for DX13.

 

[ozzy702]

Are there any reviews that pit the Vega 56/64s against aftermarket 1070/80s, instead of the founders editon that no one sane buys anymore?

I haven't seen any yet but aside from power consumption (which NVIDIA would still be way ahead on) the aftermarket NVIDIA cards would widen the gap considerably and show VEGA losing hard at every price point.

 

[mohit9206]

Also its kinda weird for anandtech to label it as
"The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright "
Not sure where the Burning bright part is?
Vega 56 is competitive but burning bright? Maybe for heating purposes.

 

[PhonakV30]

Yes me too am also very impressed with Vega 56. Its cheaper, faster and consumes less power than 1070 right?

DX12 wasn't even a thing is 2010,DX11 was still very new. That's like saying Vega sucks because it doesn't have support for DX13.

You forgot Tahiiti ? You forgot Hawaii ? heh ? i'm just saying Vega is not worse than Fermi.

 

[exquisitechar]

Sorry But whatever you want to say,I'm sure you say this, base on Your level of Hate toward AMD , Fermi is one of worse GPUs in the History because :

1) Temperature
2) Lack of DX12 Features
3) Power Draw
4) Compatibility With DX 12

There is still potential performance inside Vega that AMD will pull it soon.Remember R9 290 Vs 780 , Now look where R9 290 stands.no one care about 780 but only R9 290/390.
Vega is a failure because :

1) 15 Month
2) for same performance , It needs to draw more power

But It's not worse than Fermi.Go google it,there are ton of memes about Fermi.

Fermi wasn't as late and its performance was good, unlike Vega's.

Vega may downright be the worst GPU ever, gotta agree with raghu.

 

[LTC8K6]

Yes me too am also very impressed with Vega 56. Its cheaper, faster and consumes less power than 1070 right?

Vega 56 actually consumes considerably more power than the 1070FE in the reviews I read, unfortunately.

 

[IEC]

Also its kinda weird for anandtech to label it as
"The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright "
Not sure where the Burning bright part is?
Vega 56 is competitive but burning bright? Maybe for heating purposes.

Polaris/Vega/Navi are all named after stars. Stars burn bright so it's just a play on the naming.

 

[Borealis7]

i cannot buy a vega, i have a baby sleeping in the house.

LF used AIB GTX1080s

 

[urvile]

LoL, Newegg sold out in 2 minutes.

That's because they only had one card and Lisa Su's mum bought it.

That settles it gtx1080ti for me.

 

[Mopetar]

Hopefully the AIB cards are better. I'm not expecting massive performance gains, but the noise levels AT reported for the reference cards are a bit much.

Vega 56 could make for a good entry-level 4K card, but Vega 64 doesn't seem worth it for what it's asking. Hopefully they get some better drivers out for games like GTA because there were some really bad games for Vega.

 

[richierich1212]

Miners snatching up supplies.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Vega 56 actually consumes considerably more power than the 1070FE in the reviews I read, unfortunately.

True, but it doesn't cross into crazy territory. Vega56 power and heat should be quite manageable with aftermarket coolers. Not so with Vega64.

 

[Bouowmx]

What's going on here? http://pclab.pl/art75140-7.html

Situation flipped at higher resolution:

 

[IEC]

Miners snatching up supplies.

Seems unlikely. Stock ETH performance is around 30-31 MH/s. At $600 and current difficulty your Vega card would never attain a ROI.

 

[LTC8K6]

With the power consumption, miners should not be too enthusiastic?

 

[Borealis7]

Seems unlikely. Stock ETH performance is around 30-31 MH/s. At $600 and current difficulty your Vega card would never attain a ROI.

yeah but what if a miracle driver appears and doubles mining performance? you'd want to bet on getting one now instead of being left behind later.

https://www.techpowerup.com/235813/...rmance-reportedly-doubled-with-driver-updates

 

[LTC8K6]

What's going on here? http://pclab.pl/art75140-7.html

Situation flipped at higher resolution:

Vega doesn't do 1080P very well?

 

[PeterScott]

Really, only the Vega 56 makes sense, and that is only because 1070 is price inflated by mining, and making the assumption that Vega 56 will be available at MSRP. If GTX 1070 was selling at MSRP ($350) Vega 56 wouldn't make any sense either.

 

[stahlhart]

Sorry But whatever you want to say,I'm sure you say this, base on Your level of Hate toward AMD , Fermi is one of worse GPUs in the History because :

1) Temperature
2) Lack of DX12 Features
3) Power Draw
4) Compatibility With DX 12

There is still potential performance inside Vega that AMD will pull it soon.Remember R9 290 Vs 780 , Now look where R9 290 stands.no one care about 780 but only R9 290/390.
Vega is a failure because :

1) 15 Month
2) for same performance , It needs to draw more power

But It's not worse than Fermi.Go google it,there are ton of memes about Fermi.

Warning everyone here to keep this discussion focused on Vega reviews -- take your personal confrontations and unfinished arguments about legacy hardware to PM, and stop polluting this discussion with fanboy garbage.
-- stahlhart

 

[Udgnim]

GamersNexus Vega 56 review:

If I'm reading it correctly, 13 to 21% (varies by resolution) increase in FPS in Wildlands with power limit set to 50%. Don't think GPU clock & VRAM clock was increased. Just power limit increased to allow for boost clock to be more likely maintained.

 

[Despoiler]

Vega looks similar to the 290/x reference cards all over again. It's not quite as bad with thermals, but the cooler still cannot keep up with the chip, which then exacerbates its issues. The AIB cards will be noticeably better. That's what I am waiting for. I personally don't care about power use. I have an 850w PSU. These cards won't tax it.

As far as mining, the last chatter I saw on Github was 37 m/h @ 85% efficiency. They said they can squeeze over 90%. This is just from general optimization. I saw nothing about implementing the new instructions.