The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Rezident · 9 Nov 2017 at 13:41

OK, thanks for the info guys, always good to get some real life experience of the cards first.

Vega 64 performance looks pretty sweet now, should be some very nice gains over my Fury.

r22snapper · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:06

I went from a Fury to Vega and have been very happy with the improvement.

r22snapper · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:07

I went from a Fury to Vega and have been very happy with the improvement.

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:07

He was so happy he posted it twice!

r22snapper · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:09

Lol, you beat me. No point editing now!

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:11

r22snapper said:
Lol, you beat me. No point editing now!

That's the spirit. I left my mistake unedited in the Wolfenstein thread.

SumpNut · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:55

AMDMatt said:
Correct, optional = Beta driver. Basically the same as WHQL but without the MS stamp.

Not aware of any issues.

I thought the driver BSOD with VEGA on older PCI-e 2.0 motherboards was a common issue?

ubersonic · 9 Nov 2017 at 14:57

SumpNut said:
I thought the driver BSOD with VEGA on older PCI-e 2.0 motherboards was a common issue?

I very much doubt people using high end GPUs on obsolete motherboards is much of an issue (aside from the obvious bottleneck issue) :S

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2017 at 15:05

I imagine there could be issues relating to UEFI, but not aware of any specific BSOD issue.

TrixX · 9 Nov 2017 at 15:15

One for The Roll of Honour.

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2017 at 15:50

I just completed the Firestrike Ultra Stress Test with the settings below.

For anyone not in the know. The test runs the 1st sequence 20 times in a row and if frame rate fluctuates by more than 3% from run to run, the test fails. Peak wattage drawn from the GPU was 300W undervolted according to HWINFO64.

Bonjour · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:15

Golden sample..

EsaT · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:29

Could anyone tell if use of WattMan's power profiles disables control of WattMan's settings or are those profiles more like presets?

With availability/pricing stabilized here in Finland considering getting Vega and would aim to optimize power efficiency.
Power Save profile would be good starting point for that, but if settings can't be adjusted further tweaking would require setting everything manually.

ubersonic said:
I very much doubt people using high end GPUs on obsolete motherboards is much of an issue (aside from the obvious bottleneck issue) :S

Performance wise PCI-e v2.0 wouldn't be likely that big hit.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X_PCI-Express_Scaling/18.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_PCI_Express_Scaling/24.html
But considering PCI-e v3.0 was released in 2010 motherboard without it is about museum PC aged...

ubersonic · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:33

EsaT said:
Performance wise PCI-e v2.0 wouldn't be likely that big hit.

My point was that anyone using PCI-E 2.0 is using at best a 2nd gen i3/5/7 or an AMD FX, all of which will be a bottleneck for a modern high end GPU (some more than others).

nashathedog · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:40

JediFragger said:
I'd personally err on the side of caution with an LC and make it 750w+ (and a platinum one at that).

I'd go higher, I bought an 850watt platinum and the LC model wantd more, I'm now on an air cooled V64 with an 850 watt platinum and it's fine, It seemed okay on the EVGA G2 650 watt gold I had installed when I put the air cooled Vega card in my rig but I grabbed another 850 to be safe.

JediFragger · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:59

So remember kids, don't forget to factor in £150-200 for a new psu if you're going Vega

Bonjour · 9 Nov 2017 at 17:06

My full system load hovers around 450W (in-game) and never exceeds 500W at the wall. Admittedly, after a bit of under-volting / tweaking in Wattman.

LoadsaMoney · 9 Nov 2017 at 18:41

Someones doing the LC for £914!!!! :eek:

nashathedog · 10 Nov 2017 at 10:29

LoadsaMoney said:
Someones doing the LC for £914!!!!

The pricing's terrible, I'm guessing the non reference models will be just as expensive.
The only dislike I have for my Vega is the noise, When gaming the cards not only loud but fan speed goes up and down like a bloomin yoyo.
It's handling my 3440x1440 monitor nicely.
I got AC Origins a couple of days ago so that'll give it a good work out this weekend.

r22snapper · 10 Nov 2017 at 10:49

nashathedog said:
The pricing's terrible, I'm guessing the non reference models will be just as expensive.
The only dislike I have for my Vega is the noise, When gaming the cards not only loud but fan speed goes up and down like a bloomin yoyo.
It's handling my 3440x1440 monitor nicely.
I got AC Origins a couple of days ago so that'll give it a good work out this weekend.

I run mine on similar settings to the 950mv undervolt in the undervolting thread. Initially the fan spins up quite high but will settle to around 2400rpm which I find acceptable and still faster than the out of the box settings. 1050mv gives me some extra performance but the fan will be around 2800-2900 which is pretty rowdy.