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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

I may as well post this in here, some update news on MSI Afterburner for use with Vega Graphic Cards.

Development news for MSI Afterburner, posted by Unwinder the developer. Just so happens it's got AMD enhancements and MSI sent the developer a new engineering sample of a custom design flagship model. Could be a Lightning model though for Nvidia?

Source: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/rtss-6-7-0-beta-1.412822/page-79

MSI Afterburner development news | Posted: 21 November 2018:
  • New MSI custom design flagship engineering sample is on the way to me now. This MSI non-reference design product line traditionally have exclusive multi-channel voltage control and multiple additional memory and VRM thermal sensors, so I’ll need to implement support for this card. Once it is implemented, we’ll probably release official 4.6.0
  • While the sample is in the way, I’ll be working on some additional features which I planned to add to 4.6.0 before it goes final:
  • Voltage/Frequency curve editor will be unlocked for AMD cards. There is no exactly equal NVIDIA-styled voltage/frequency curve tuning support on AMD side but this GUI (in slightly altered form) can be used to allow editing all P-States instead of adjusting just the highest P7 now. Screenshot is demonstrating new planned GUI prototype.
  • Voltage/Frequency editor functionality will be slightly upgraded for NVIDIA cards too, it will be possible to override visible range of clocks/voltages so those who use V/F curve editor to lock voltage and reduce power consumption (mostly my “favorite” miners) will be able to go below the previous GUI minimum (800mV) if necessary.
  • There will be dedicated button for launching OC scanner from main window GUI (also shown on prototype screenshot in top left corner)
  • Monitoring tab GUI will get additional useful helper keyboard shortcuts. It will be possible to override OSD/LCD group name for all graphs in the group at once (now you have to manually rename “CPU1” to something like “i7 8700K” for all grouped graphs). It will be also possible to use <Alt> modifier when changing some monitoring options (e.g. when toggling “Show in OSD” option) to apply it to all similar graphs at once (e.g. holding <Alt> and ticking “Show in OSD” for “CPU1 temperature” graph will also synchronically enable “Show in OSD” for the rest “CPUx temperature” graphs”).
  • ___Probably___ we’ll unlock OC scanner button for GTX 1000 family (no promises on it, there is no final decision on it yet). NVIDIA are working on their NV Scanner implementation for GTX 1000 family in recent drivers so the scanner is already breathing on previous GPU generations. There are still some open issues left, but I’m thinking about allowing you to play with scanner “as is” in the next beta.
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I only use Afterburner for fan profiles since WattMan doesn't do that with enough granularity. For P state voltages and speeds, what does Afterburner offer over WattMan?
 
DragonQ said:
I only use Afterburner for fan profiles since WattMan doesn't do that with enough granularity. For P state voltages and speeds, what does Afterburner offer over WattMan?
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Nothing. Wattman with per game overclock profile is far superior, especially when you can set the minimum speed on some older games which throttle the vega to 750mhz. (ESO, SWG etc)
 
DragonQ said:
what does Afterburner offer over WattMan?
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Far, far better monitoring with much more information (and what it can't handle natively you can bring in from aida64 or hwinfo64 through its plugins). I don't use the OSD, but I have the graphs always running on my 2nd monitor. Doesn't cause me any measureable performance loss and no problems from it.
 
Well my start to vega ownership has so far been a nightmare.

Hours after ordering the card on thursday my boot SSD died. So I ordered a m.2 which I didnt get till yesterday. :mad: My gpu arrived the next day so was sitting in the box for days.

Once I got everything installed and running a windows update messed up my network settings so I couldnt get a internet connection on my PC. After reinstalling windows twice I finally got that sorted.


I played a few games on battlefront 2 to test things out and it was running great so I bought battlefield V. But my PSU doesnt like that and shuts my pc down.

I suspected 650w wouldnt be enough but thought I would try it before spending more money after some other people said they were managing on a 650.


Looking at the kolink continuum 850w now.



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Shiari said:
Far, far better monitoring with much more information (and what it can't handle natively you can bring in from aida64 or hwinfo64 through its plugins). I don't use the OSD, but I have the graphs always running on my 2nd monitor. Doesn't cause me any measureable performance loss and no problems from it.
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Yeah that's true, I actually used to use the Afterburner graphs, specifically GPU usage, to check whether the "random FPS drop" bug had occurred in Overwatch after alt-tabbing. It's easily noticeable in combat but not so much when just sitting in spawn so it's nice to know whether I need to apply the work-around (disable and re-enable Reduce Buffering) or not before the match starts.

However, I haven't had that bug appear with my Vega 56 yet.
 
ryhoper1 said:
I played a few games on battlefront 2 to test things out and it was running great so I bought battlefield V. But my PSU doesnt like that and shuts my pc down.

I suspected 650w wouldnt be enough but thought I would try it before spending more money after some other people said they were managing on a 650.


Looking at the kolink continuum 850w now.
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Are you running at stock? If so you could try undervolting, you can save a LOT of power by doing that and might make your PSU happier.
 
Everything is up and running. Im not sure if it's coil whine or not but im getting a very low howling sound separate from the fan noise. Still there when the cpu fan is turned down. @Panos ive used your Wattman settings. Will have to explore Wattman properly over the next few days. Time to start learning overclocking all over again. Cant tell you guys how amazing it is to be back on a desktop again.
 
TheSwede said:
To those that own, or has owned, a Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro+ card. Did you use the fan connectors on the card and connected to the MB ?? Just wondering if it is needed, because if it is I need to buy those cables. :p
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I made the same mistake of misunderstanding that.

You actually plug in external fans to that connector and they are regulated by GPU temps
 
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