The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

JediFragger · 31 Aug 2017 at 14:35

ICDP said:
Strange, I find the reference cooler on the RX 64 to be far better than that on the R9 290/X. Even at default settings of 2400 RPM it is just about acceptable to me, but with undervolting and custom settings in Wattman I have it set to 2200 RPM which is very acceptable.

Techpower reviews for 290 and RX 56.

R9 290 49dbA (stock)
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_290/25.html

RX 56 42dbA
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_56/30.html

This is in line with my experience of both, R9 290 was simply unbearable in comparison.

Ah, that's a pleasant surprise then! I'm sure the review I read said that it wasn't far off.

sjones1404 · 31 Aug 2017 at 18:13

Ready to install

But come on sapphire, not even a case badge in the box!!! poor show

Roob65 · 31 Aug 2017 at 18:21

There she is! Excuse the janky case as it's a temporary home for now....

MagicBoy · 31 Aug 2017 at 18:42

Arrived today, getting fitted tomorrow as I'm not around tonight...

sideways14a · 31 Aug 2017 at 18:51

Hi all, long time lurker.

I am now the proud owner of a Vega 56, i got lucky on the f5 roulette and a nice new card was in my hands today once parting with 380 folded pictures of her Maj.

So right out of the box and start the benching, system is my daily 5820k @4.5 big ones (water), 2133 ram :rolleyes:

ect.. all running timespy to start with as its quick and i am lazy and all are GPU scores only.

So standard mode, stock standard wattman settings, stock bios setting.. 6176
Ok on to turbo mode in wattman 6352.. nice boost

At this point i could have kept going with overclocking/undervolting but i decided, sod it get the v64 air bios out and onto it.

So next up v64 bios, all stock wattman - roughly 1518mhz core and 800 mhz memory - 6676
Not bad for just throwing on a bios.
Next up some clock fiddling.
Core still at 1610 but memory up to 1075mhz - 6892 - power limit 25% iirc
Core 1683 memory back down to 1ghz (due to clock bug) -pw limit back to 50% and fan allowed to go nuts - 6951

As the memory bug was er bugging me at this point, i couldnt hold 1075mhz like the second last run due to it resetting to either 500 or 800mhz which made me leave it at 1ghz while increasing the core, i decided to move to Firestrike.
Firestrike ultra core 1651 ram 1000 - 5376
Firestrike extreme core 1655 ram 1000 - 9557

After this i got really bored and cracked open a Guiness.
Max power draw with the last timespy run was hovering around 460w at the wall, and my cpu is not setup to sip power. Both state 6 and 7 were set at 1150mv, although they also seemed to be fine at 1100 as well but i ran them a little higher to see if i could extract more mhz but crashes ensued at circa 1700mhz.

So verdict at the moment, its great the Vega 56.
Lots of untapped overclocking/under volt potential, and when the driver bugs are fixed i dont see why mine wont do at least 1700mhz (with a little more grunt) and 1075 mhz on the ram which had shown promise with slower core speeds earlier.

Edited to say all figures for speed and voltage come from wattman and gpuz.. so take with massive pinch of salt.

Smudge · 31 Aug 2017 at 19:21

sideways14a said:
Hi all, long time lurker.

I am now the proud owner of a Vega 56, i got lucky on the f5 roulette and a nice new card was in my hands today once parting with 380 folded pictures of her Maj.

So right out of the box and start the benching, system is my daily 5820k @4.5 big ones (water), 2133 ram ect.. all running timespy to start with as its quick and i am lazy and all are GPU scores only.

So standard mode, stock standard wattman settings, stock bios setting.. 6176
Ok on to turbo mode in wattman 6352.. nice boost

At this point i could have kept going with overclocking/undervolting but i decided, sod it get the v64 air bios out and onto it.

So next up v64 bios, all stock wattman - roughly 1518mhz core and 800 mhz memory - 6676
Not bad for just throwing on a bios.
Next up some clock fiddling.
Core still at 1610 but memory up to 1075mhz - 6892 - power limit 25% iirc
Core 1683 memory back down to 1ghz (due to clock bug) -pw limit back to 50% and fan allowed to go nuts - 6951

As the memory bug was er bugging me at this point, i couldnt hold 1075mhz like the second last run due to it resetting to either 500 or 800mhz which made me leave it at 1ghz while increasing the core, i decided to move to Firestrike.
Firestrike ultra core 1651 ram 1000 - 5376
Firestrike extreme core 1655 ram 1000 - 9557

After this i got really bored and cracked open a Guiness.
Max power draw with the last timespy run was hovering around 460w at the wall, and my cpu is not setup to sip power. Both state 6 and 7 were set at 1150mv, although they also seemed to be fine at 1100 as well but i ran them a little higher to see if i could extract more mhz but crashes ensued at circa 1700mhz.

So verdict at the moment, its great the Vega 56.
Lots of untapped overclocking/under volt potential, and when the driver bugs are fixed i dont see why mine wont do at least 1700mhz (with a little more grunt) and 1075 mhz on the ram which had shown promise with slower core speeds earlier.

Nice run down

I ended up paying about 90 quid more (Denmark 25% tax) on the 64 but im super stoked the 56's are doing so well! The fact you can flash the bios over and get an instant boost is amazing. My timespy scores 7915 at the mo on the 64 air cooled. I think my whole system has more legs in it but I have it nice and cool and stable right now so im happy with what I paid for the performance return. People keep rattling on about the power draw on the VEGA's but if you are lucky enough to get your cards at the cheaper prices and then spend a couple of hours running benchmarks and under volting until you start seeing performance dip it makes a HUGE difference. My system sips power. Setting the Chill and a frame cap of 144hz (freesync 1440p, 144hz monitor), my games im currently playing dont even reach max boost clock and hold 144fps. Path of Exile, although not the most demanding game, holds 144fps with the core clock sat at 700mhz

card sits around 55c!

Try your power limit between 15 and 20% btw. I have settled mine on 18%, any higher didnt get me gains and lower just made it boost less.

Memory bug - try setting your gpu states 6,7 and the hbm voltage control(mv) to the same values. mine are all set to 1050. I think it fixes it.

Matt

sideways14a · 31 Aug 2017 at 19:35

Yeah i tried the set all states to the same trick but nope... it would take the gpu core but the hbm would squirm about, taking 1075 and then dropping to 800 or 500. I think i got lucky with the test where i got a good 1600mhz/1075mhz run, it held it.
Cannot complain about the power usage, while i aint put a clamp over the 12v lines the power draw at the wall doesnt seem excessive at all - especially after all the hype and reports of vega being a furnace...

One thing i did get was the dreaded black screen of doom on windows (10) startup. I had this occasionally with my fury as well but with the new drivers it just black screened on my hdmi TV. After fiddling around with the tellys resolution it booted to a normal mode 1080p res which allowed me to go in and reset a 4k resolution in windows which seems to have done the trick. Looks like it could partly be down to wonky timings or something.

Vince · 31 Aug 2017 at 20:43

Bosh...

All installed and ready to go.

JediFragger · 31 Aug 2017 at 21:14

Lookin' gooooooooooood there guys!! 56 does look like the pick of the two atm :cool:

icey_haj · 31 Aug 2017 at 21:19

Oooooh baby! :cool:

erazor51 · 1 Sep 2017 at 02:13

Please can someone share a print screen of their undervolt, mem oc etc on wattman? thanks

old gamer · 1 Sep 2017 at 07:35

erazor51 said:
Please can someone share a print screen of their undervolt, mem oc etc on wattman? thanks

heres a vid that will walk you through it step by step, takes about 5 min the settings worked ok for me although i did up the memory to 950, i tried lowering the voltage to 1050 but had a crash playing cs go so i put it back to 1100
oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=259&v=v6UJRNDOyHs

MikeB · 1 Sep 2017 at 07:37

old gamer said:
heres a vid that will walk you through it step by step, takes about 5 min the settings worked ok for me although i did up the memory to 950, i tried lowering the voltage to 1050 but had a crash playing cs go so i put it back to 1100

. .......no video

old gamer · 1 Sep 2017 at 07:38

MikeB said:
. .......no video

rectified

Daiyus · 1 Sep 2017 at 08:32

I'm feeling very happy right now.

Kaapstad · 1 Sep 2017 at 09:05

Welcome and on TROH.

The Roll of Honour.

Date 01/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Daiyus, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, icey_haj, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Vince, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, sideways14a, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, MagicBoy, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Roob65, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, sjones1404, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, bells, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Sybra, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, docsonic, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Disjunto, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, old gamer, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, FelixB, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, megatron, Link

To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Vega 56.

Narrack · 1 Sep 2017 at 09:45

Narrack · 1 Sep 2017 at 11:04

erazor51 said:
Please can someone share a print screen of their undervolt, mem oc etc on wattman? thanks

Kaapstad · 1 Sep 2017 at 12:20

Narrack said:

Welcome and on TROH.

The Roll of Honour.

Date 01/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Narrack, Link
Date 01/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Daiyus, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, icey_haj, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Vince, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, sideways14a, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, MagicBoy, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Roob65, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, sjones1404, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, bells, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Sybra, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, docsonic, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Disjunto, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, old gamer, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, FelixB, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference Air, megatron, Link

To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Vega 56.

erazor51 · 1 Sep 2017 at 16:05

old gamer said:
heres a vid that will walk you through it step by step, takes about 5 min the settings worked ok for me although i did up the memory to 950, i tried lowering the voltage to 1050 but had a crash playing cs go so i put it back to 1100
oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=259&v=v6UJRNDOyHs

Narrack said:

Thanks guys, will try tonight