The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

subbytna · 14 Jun 2018 at 16:02

Set up iChill fan profile in the software, you can control fan speed from there (indirect fan speed via temp range). When ichill is active it'll follow the profile you've told it to use.

silversurfer · 14 Jun 2018 at 19:29

The whole point to me of the aftermarket card is the nicer refined fan setup. afterburner has a whole graph point of speeds to set and so it doesnt oscillate .
Thats a very fancy PSU platinum, self tester, eco mode and modular. Use all options, rearrange things a little and see if it helps.

One time I spent ages sorting something and it was just 1 cable, must have partly shorted itself somehow. I had assumed not to bother switching it out, till I disassembled everything at the end. I have coolermaster 850 80+ for comparison

Heinz57 · 17 Jun 2018 at 17:01

I managed to make the fans start at a lower RPM, so that's reduced some of the noise.

Absolutely nothing seems to reduce the coil whine though, eg reassembling bits of the PC or reducing the FPS. Not even my Nano or Fury whined on the desktop or in Chrome, I think it's going to have to go back.

LoadsaMoney · 20 Jun 2018 at 17:05

Kei · 20 Jun 2018 at 21:33

Heinz57 said:
I managed to make the fans start at a lower RPM, so that's reduced some of the noise.

Absolutely nothing seems to reduce the coil whine though, eg reassembling bits of the PC or reducing the FPS. Not even my Nano or Fury whined on the desktop or in Chrome, I think it's going to have to go back.

Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.

Heinz57 · 21 Jun 2018 at 17:26

Kei said:
Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.

Indeed, I'm still undecided. I had to RMA a Fury before and the new one whined just as much (although RMA was for another reason).

However I'm not sure how another one could be worse, it's whining away whilst I'm merely typing this. The other option is return for a refund and try another model or stick with the 580 (which would feel painful now). Decisions, decisions.

LoadsaMoney · 4 Jul 2018 at 13:49

ASRock Phantom Gaming Lineup Gets Reference Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Graphics Cards

https://wccftech.com/asrock-phantom-gaming-radeon-rx-vega-graphics-cards/

Davanius · 5 Jul 2018 at 17:42

A little late to the party.

I went with the Vega 56 as I already had three Pascal cards this gen and was bored with them. Gotta say this thing is very exciting to tweak and bench with.

Kaapstad · 5 Jul 2018 at 18:47

Davanius said:
A little late to the party.

I went with the Vega 56 as I already had three Pascal cards this gen and was bored with them. Gotta say this thing is very exciting to tweak and bench with.

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LoadsaMoney · 6 Jul 2018 at 17:36

The 480s a beast!

D1craig · 6 Jul 2018 at 19:13

Kei said:
Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.

i hate this coil whine lark. all they ever say to you is "your PSU isnt good enough". seems like some very deep ploy to get you to spend more money as you can go through PSUs until you get the most expensive PSU they sell and then they sort it out. maybe? you buy a PSU suggested as really good quality - EVGA silver etc etc and still because they use 2000watt max price range PSU to test thats where your problem is... really grates on me. i will be trying GPUs fully on the day or week i receive them in future so i can send them back with coil whine and use the 14 day returns thing. credit card purchase for insurance aswell.

really want a vega 56 but cant justify that sort of money right now.

MagicBoy · 6 Jul 2018 at 19:18

No hint of coil whine on my reference Sapphire card. My old MSI R9 390 had a bit occasionally but this one doesn't emit a peep.

Bombas · 6 Jul 2018 at 21:27

@Gibbo any plans for selling Vega nano?

LoadsaMoney · 27 Jul 2018 at 19:04

coale39 · 28 Jul 2018 at 10:09

Hi, could anyone help me with a problem I currently have with my Vega 56 red dragon? Just got a 4k monitor, and now when the pc starts up after about 30 seconds on desktop it gets very sow/unresponsive. This is fixed by putting the resolution down to any other resolution (say 1440p) then putting it back up to 4k, however I dont want to keep doing this every time I turn on the PC. Ive reinstalled drivers and flipped between the two bios settings and it still does it... Any ideas?

Tommy_Here · 29 Jul 2018 at 20:39

LoadsaMoney said:

Vega56 competing with 1070 ( which launched a year earlier ) which is also 980Ti performance and both overclocked to max the Ti pulls ahead is not great for AMD the only card they have which is a clear win over a 3+ year old 980 Ti is Vega64 even then the power consumption and price is laughable compared to it.

We need AMD to be competitive again, if Nvidia launch the 1180 soon and it's a 30-35% performance boost over 1080 Ti then you've got a card that's going to be around 50-60% faster than Vega64 use less power and all the more reason to price it insane (n)

Panos · 29 Jul 2018 at 21:56

Guys regarding coil wine. One way to fix it some times it to losen the screws.
Use a screw driver and losen all the screws but those around the GPU and those having stickers to not void the warranty.

When you losen the screws, tighten them again but not with strength, just apply the strength you hold an egg.
If issue continues, loosen a bit those around the end of the board.

I resolved like that the coil whine on the GTX1080Ti Xtreme, and also on the Vega 64 Nitro+, especially when watercooled it and was short of screws. By not having any at the end of the board the coil whine went away.

But again make sure you do not touch the screws with stickers to void any warranty, nor the screws that hold the block to GPU.

Panos · 29 Jul 2018 at 22:13

Tommy_Here said:
Vega56 competing with 1070 ( which launched a year earlier ) which is also 980Ti performance and both overclocked to max the Ti pulls ahead is not great for AMD the only card they have which is a clear win over a 3+ year old 980 Ti is Vega64 even then the power consumption and price is laughable compared to it.

We need AMD to be competitive again, if Nvidia launch the 1180 soon and it's a 30-35% performance boost over 1080 Ti then you've got a card that's going to be around 50-60% faster than Vega64 use less power and all the more reason to price it insane (n)

Imho we should stop care. I personally do not see the point any more.
Anyone who has a Freesync 120/144hz monitor and it's card can do 80fps+ at max out settings on the games he/she likes is fine.
As for power consumption I will tell you only this. When I play WOT/WOWS etc, I have the card on power saving mode. Is burns 175W while still ditching 90-105fps.
Going "turbo mode" true I will get 110-130fps but it will consume 276W.
When I play EU4/CK2 etc it burns between 76-80W.

My GTX1080Ti Xtreme was burning 330-334W constantly doing 170fps on a game without Freesync and no ability to cap FPS to refresh rate. (vsync on WOT is out of question due to sheer input lag). Having the game looking like a fast slideshow with a tear at the bottom third of the screen.
Same applies to EU4/CK2 where vsync isn't working, trying to push FPS to high 500s burning 300W+.

Sorry but the all "AMD more power consumption" is a lot of crap.
Maybe not for the reference cards but custom like the V64 Nitro+ is. I have yet to see that card burning more than 276W on it's default speeds (1630). Can hit 332W when I have pushed to 1750 core 1080 HBM.

Davanius · 29 Jul 2018 at 23:07

We do need AMD to be more competitive long term but as for Vega 56 vs 1070, well my Vega is faster than the 1070 ftw that I had.

The drivers have also been more stable across the same range of games that I play. I also have a Samsung HG70 monitor which has great colours and image quality and I'm glad to see the back of the banding that I had with my GSync TN monitors from both Dell and Asus even though I ran a 1080ti.

I noticed better image quality on this setup so I will be keeping this arrangement for a good while even when faster cards arrive from the green team. I even thought about exchanging my card for a 64 Strix for a little more but I don't see the point.

Panos · 30 Jul 2018 at 00:53

Davanius said:
We do need AMD to be more competitive long term but as for Vega 56 vs 1070, well my Vega is faster than the 1070 ftw that I had.

The drivers have also been more stable across the same range of games that I play. I also have a Samsung HG70 monitor which has great colours and image quality and I'm glad to see the back of the banding that I had with my GSync TN monitors from both Dell and Asus even though I ran a 1080ti.

I noticed better image quality on this setup so I will be keeping this arrangement for a good while even when faster cards arrive from the green team. I even thought about exchanging my card for a 64 Strix for a little more but I don't see the point.

Exactly. Must agree on the image quality. Went from 1080Ti Xtreme to V64 Nitro and everything looks better at the same settings.
I have posted an extensive analysis in relation to some games one of them is WOT. I do get less FPS than with the 1080Ti but everything looks better, including the foliage on trees and bushes is doubled (same settings), fires and smoke look betters, water also, from puddles to the big lake at Lakevile look better, also the windows on the Paris map are eye catching with the mirroring of the Eiffel Tower. Compared it also with the GTX1060 on my laptop, exactly the same max settings, yet everything doesn't look like that.

Also there was someone else who posted from CS:GO screenshots comparing his AMD & NVidia cards. Same max settings and NV (1080 if remember) was rendering half the foliage on the trees!!!