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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

My Vega & GTX 1080 Experience…
Long time lurker, first post, hope my experiences will save someone much time/money.

Bottom line: Undervolted Vega 56 is a great card!


So have been waiting ages for AMD to finally produce a successor to my Asus Strix Fury. Lovely quiet card, excellent Asus cooler. Very poor over-clocking though.
Fortunately managed to sell that for a good price, thanks to the current crazy GPU market.

Got a Vega 64 for the £450 launch price. However found it very hot, noisy and not a great performer. Thankfully managed to sell it for a profit.
Had previously ordered a Gigabyte 1080 Gaming when they dropped to £460 ish. Much cooler/quieter and overclocks like hell!
Even got my Acer 34 Ultra-wide Freesync up to 85Hz and the 1080 ran it great.

However….. no freeysnc! I now realise what a game-changer freesync is. Not just for no tearing but it gives a much smoother experience. IMHO my monitor at 75Hz freesync with Vega looked noticeably better than at 85 Hz with the 1080. Others may see it differently but this was my experience.

So sent back the 1080 and got a Vega 56. Once i’d under-volted it and raised the power target it regularly exceeds 64 speeds but much cooler & quieter. Think I now have the best gameplay experience with Freesync and a powerful/quiet/cool GPU.


So at least I’ll say thanks AMD, Vega 56 is a great card!


Just pray Nvidia doesn’t start supporting Freesync :)

Lastly the Crimson/Wattman software is much better than the Nvidia control panel. Looks the same as when I had an 8800! 10 years ago?
 
Rup said:
So sent back the 1080 and got a Vega 56. Once i’d under-volted it and raised the power target it regularly exceeds 64 speeds but much cooler & quieter. Think I now have the best gameplay experience with Freesync and a powerful/quiet/cool GPU.
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Sounds like you got the ideal solution! Enjoy man :cool:
 
Reinstalled windows, atiflash is now happy again. Flashed the 64 bios, undervolted the core, and ramped the HBM up to 1050. Better performance that I could reach with the 56 bios with next to no effort.
 
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My 1070 at 2.1ghz/9.2ghz memory at 1080p test.
 
Hi everyone,

I'm back after a long time and I've jumped off the hype train straight on to the wagon and ordered a RXV 56 today and I'm wondering if I made the right choice going for the ref.cooler when the AIB boards are estimated to release around a couple of weeks, and I was told this from a ocuk sales guy when I was purchasing it, and I was also told It's around next month from a Sapphire rep. and he doesn't know about the price yet.

So I would like to know how much did you guys pay for it? Because the sales rep. told me when they first launched they went for £320 and got sold out in minutes, but I'm not sure if he meant before or after tax.

And will these ref. boards have higher quality components than the custom ones?
 
SHOGUNXSHINOBI said:
Hi everyone,

I'm back after a long time and I've jumped off the hype train straight on to the wagon and ordered a RXV 56 today and I'm wondering if I made the right choice going for the ref.cooler when the AIB boards are estimated to release around a couple of weeks, and I was told this from a ocuk sales guy when I was purchasing it, and I was also told It's around next month from a Sapphire rep. and he doesn't know about the price yet.

So I would like to know how much did you guys pay for it? Because the sales rep. told me when they first launched they went for £320 and got sold out in minutes, but I'm not sure if he meant before or after tax.

And will these ref. boards have higher quality components than the custom ones?
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He meant before tax.

Launch price was £380 for sapphire and £390 for powercolor, then sapphire price was raised to £390

As for whether ref design question, its up to you, AIB will have better cooling but probably will be more expensive than ref design cooling.

Edit: Do not know for certain about components quality of ref vs AIB but many reviwers praised quiality of ref design, in particular VRMs I think
 
erazor51 said:
1. Download ATIWinflash here: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-winflash/

2. Create a Backup of your high power BIOS (switch in standard position towards face plate).

3. Download the Vega 64 BIOS (use non liquid) here: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios...X+Vega+64&interface=&memType=&memSize=&since=

The one you want is the one WITHOUT _1.rom at the end. Check the details and you will see the one without underline1 has the higher power draw, i.e. is the non power saving BIOS.

4. Flash that ROM with ATIWinflash

5. Reboot your PC.

Check with the newest beta build of HWinfo if your memory voltage now shows 1.35V.

You've done it!

Note: You can't flash the secondary BIOS, it is protected.
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Just trying this at the mo - using winatiflash - i get gui prompt "cannot find discrete ati video card" when first running the .exe - any pointers?
 
All stock now sold. Think i may just jump on and get a pre-order of the Sapphire ref 56. £389 is still a lot of dough for a video card and as much as I'd want to wait for an MSI AIB card, they will be at least £20-30 more, pushing it to the mid £400s which i just can't justify spending really, especially MSI who usually price their cards a bit higher than most - ignoring Strix cards.

Should be a good upgrade from 4690k discreet onboard gpu, lol. (did have RX470 ref before that so hope will be a great improvement on that) along with my freesync monitor.
 
evening all, i took delivery of a powercolor vega 56 gpu earlier and since then i've been gaiming rock soild at 1440p at 75fps minimum, have ajusted the power target to +50 which gave me a 1576mhz core clock and i have managed 860mhz on the hbm2 atm (440.3gbs bandwith), the card is bloody awsome the frame rates arn't too far off my 1080ti, which blows my mind.
the card is noisy under load but thats because of a custom fan curve i set, temps on the core and hbm2 are around 70-71 degrees which i'm guesing are pretty good.
i then downlaoded gpuz 2.3.0 and looked at the cards spec's in detail and something caught my eye the reported shadder count was off and instead of showing 3584 shaders my card is showing 3648 also the pixel rate and texture rates had a small increase from specs i've seen online.
has anyone else noticed the above and if so is it a glich in software or is the card carrying the extra horsepower.
 
wookiee87 said:
i then downlaoded gpuz 2.3.0 and looked at the cards spec's in detail and something caught my eye the reported shadder count was off and instead of showing 3584 shaders my card is showing 3648 also the pixel rate and texture rates had a small increase from specs i've seen online.
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Tools like GPU-Z can't actually tell how many shaders there are, what the die size is, and things like that. That information is read from a database, it is entered by people making these tools based on information such as "specs found online". So yeah, it's essentially a glitch in the software.
 
just seems odd thats all, i've got techpowerup's database up and looking at the rx vega 56 specs, if it is a glicth they need to fix it fast
things that are reporting wrong

die size - my card 486mm compared to 484mm online
pixel rate - my card 101.8 compared to 94.14 online
texture rate - my card 362.5 compared to 329.5 online
tmu's - my card 228 compared to 224 online

other than this everything else is correct
 
Nerusy said:
He meant before tax.

Launch price was £380 for sapphire and £390 for powercolor, then sapphire price was raised to £390

As for whether ref design question, its up to you, AIB will have better cooling but probably will be more expensive than ref design cooling.

Edit: Do not know for certain about components quality of ref vs AIB but many reviwers praised quiality of ref design, in particular VRMs I think
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Thanks for reply and I thought as much about the price, and the guy also mentioned that the price will go up on the ref.model if I'm not mistaken so it looks like it will be a lot more on the custom models.
 
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