The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Davedree · 28 Nov 2017 at 12:11

For the Mr Kaap.

1x Powercolor V64

Kaapstad · 28 Nov 2017 at 12:40

Davedree said:
For the Mr Kaap.

1x Powercolor V64

Welcome and on TROH.

The Roll of Honour.

Date 28/11/2017, Make Reference Air, Davedree, Link
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Date 21/10/2017, Make Reference Air, Martini1991, Link
Date 01/10/2017, Make Reference Air, sharmanov, Link
Date 29/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Dempsey22, Link
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Date 30/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, Chewie, Link
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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 64.

Rezident · 28 Nov 2017 at 13:22

Well impressed with this Vega so far, nice to go back to Dishonored 2 maxed out. Not even thinking about buying any new games yet, going to replaying previous games but maxed out now.

LoadsaMoney · 28 Nov 2017 at 14:30

5x of the Limited Edition Air Cooled in stock.

silversurfer · 28 Nov 2017 at 21:58

Rezident said:
Well impressed with this Vega so far, nice to go back to Dishonored 2 maxed out. Not even thinking about buying any new games yet, going to replaying previous games but maxed out now.

On windows 10 there is a good free game demo. One of the best I've played for looks and feel considering its just sitting there ready to play, Forza 7 demo. Very much a good test for Vega and it seems to do ok. Looks like its saturated one core but its fine with my 2.5ghz 8 core haswell when a few (older) games arent. Listed on windows store

Illuminist · 28 Nov 2017 at 22:10

silversurfer said:
On windows 10 there is a good free game demo. One of the best I've played for looks and feel considering its just sitting there ready to play, Forza 7 demo. Very much a good test for Vega and it seems to do ok. Looks like its saturated one core but its fine with my 2.5ghz 8 core haswell when a few (older) games arent. Listed on windows store

That game never starts for me, i press start and it just spins forever

GoogalyMoogaly · 28 Nov 2017 at 22:13

Does HBCC work as well with DDR3? How dependent is it on the speed of system RAM?

LtMatt · 29 Nov 2017 at 06:09

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Does HBCC work as well with DDR3? How dependent is it on the speed of system RAM?

I think it'll work but for the best possible performance, you'll want to be using a PCI-E 3.0 x16 lane (most important) and faster memory (DDR4) running at higher frequencies, tighter timings will also help.

Kaapstad · 29 Nov 2017 at 06:28

https://www.techpowerup.com/239246/powercolor-officially-launches-radeon-rx-vega-red-devil-series

Kaapstad · 29 Nov 2017 at 06:41

https://www.techpowerup.com/239247/gigabyte-launches-radeon-rx-vega-gaming-oc-windforce-2x-series

TrixX · 29 Nov 2017 at 06:47

That Gigabyte one looks tasty. For those getting the Powercolor, do check there's paste covering the HBM. GN highlighted their example (pre-production) didn't have HBM paste coverage. New ones off the main production apparently are ok, but it being Powercolor I'd be checking the card myself.

Kaapstad · 29 Nov 2017 at 06:50

PowerColor Red Devil review at Computer Base.

https://www.computerbase.de/2017-11/powercolor-radeon-rx-vega-64-red-devil-test/

shankly1985 · 29 Nov 2017 at 07:33

So now I guess we can put to bed AIB partners didn't want to touch Vega! Its take a long time though.

JediFragger · 29 Nov 2017 at 08:30

shankly1985 said:
Its take a long time though.

For all we know the reason it took so long is AMD finally caved a little on the pricing model

ubersonic · 29 Nov 2017 at 08:33

I feel sorry for all those Vega 56 cards, it's like watching Victorian kids turn old enough to enter the mines XD

Illuminist · 29 Nov 2017 at 15:59

ubersonic said:
I feel sorry for all those Vega 56 cards, it's like watching Victorian kids turn old enough to enter the mines XD

LOL !

GoogalyMoogaly · 29 Nov 2017 at 20:26

shankly1985 said:
So now I guess we can put to bed AIB partners didn't want to touch Vega! Its take a long time though.

And looking at the prices it now seems like they're getting much closer to 1080Ti prices, £650 for the Vega 64 Strix (admittedly the 1080Ti Strix is a tad more than that) but there are 1080Tis for about £650.

Rimsy · 29 Nov 2017 at 23:52

JediFragger said:
For all we know the reason it took so long is AMD finally caved a little on the pricing model

Surely that has to be the only reason? Been hinted at enough that Vega is one hugely expensive chip produce so does makes sense..

AngelofDeath69 · 30 Nov 2017 at 01:22

Hey guys, been watching this thread for quite some time and finally got my vega. Sadly enough..
I am quite happy to see so many people getting one but i had so many issues with mine that is crazy.
I got a gigabyte vega 64 watercooled and right of the gate several apps would freeze the pc when getting details of the system, such as 3dmark.
It did run the games fine but to my shock there was maybe only a 20% performance increase when comparing with my 970?!? And thats with my 970 at much lower temps with a kraken g20 and an aio wirh 280 rad.

Wattman refused to save profile settings, i set turbo change tab and when go back to it its in balanced again.
Turn freesync off or on and it was mostly off. Sometimes out of the blue it would turn it off or on on ita own.

Core temps quite fine but fps on most games and benchmark scores were really not what i expected. About 15k score on firestrike 1080p default :/ maybe its my 4690k bottlenecking? Cant be as in neither benchmarks nor games does it ever go above 50% usage.
1 day after installing it im playing rainbow six siege after several hours the pc just turns off and refuses to power on after that. I place my gtx 970 back and it powers up fine again. Guess that vega just died after 1 day... To my amaze as well core never went above 60C but when i checked the actual card physically it was around the 80'sC.

Anyone else experienced any kind of similar oddities or i just got a bad card on the lottery?

Now gotta wait 15 days for replacement ans it just gor out of stock on amazon uk

Thanks and best of luck to any new vega owner

Shiari · 30 Nov 2017 at 08:05

AngelofDeath69 said:
Hey guys, been watching this thread for quite some time and finally got my vega. Sadly enough..
I am quite happy to see so many people getting one but i had so many issues with mine that is crazy.
I got a gigabyte vega 64 watercooled and right of the gate several apps would freeze the pc when getting details of the system, such as 3dmark.
It did run the games fine but to my shock there was maybe only a 20% performance increase when comparing with my 970?!? And thats with my 970 at much lower temps with a kraken g20 and an aio wirh 280 rad.

I've had these lockups with 3DMark as well. Not sure if that's a problem with 3DMark, or the driver(s), or both. It strangely mostly went away after I installed additional benchmarks to it (until I did I couldn't navigate to the benchmarks page at all).

AngelofDeath69 said:
Wattman refused to save profile settings, i set turbo change tab and when go back to it its in balanced again.

Did you hit Apply?

It does reset back to balanced if the drivers detect a problem with the settings, but you'd have to be running something intense first to make it do that.

AngelofDeath69 said:
Turn freesync off or on and it was mostly off. Sometimes out of the blue it would turn it off or on on ita own.

Core temps quite fine but fps on most games and benchmark scores were really not what i expected. About 15k score on firestrike 1080p default :/ maybe its my 4690k bottlenecking? Cant be as in neither benchmarks nor games does it ever go above 50% usage.

Well, I wouldn't recommend anyone spending as much money for a GPU on 1920x1080 resolutions. And as to Vega specifically, it doesn't really get to stretch its legs much until the workload increases. At 1080p you won't see that much of an increase on your 970, aye ... plus as you acknowledge the bottleneck also shifts way more towards the CPU at lower resolutions.