Golden Vega 56?

[$ilent]

Hi All

Recieved my new Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 couple days ago, I really seem to have some decent clocks for mega low voltage. Check my screenshot. This is stable at folding and gaming. During folding core runs at ~1609mhz, memory 950mhz and ~960mv. During gaming core clock runs at ~1600mhz and memory 950mhz again at 960mv. Power draw is ~160W and my temps are great, core, memory and hotspot run between 55c-70C with fans at 70%.

Could this be considered a golden 56 considered the relatively decent clocks at the voltage?

Thanks

 

[$ilent]

Memory looks to be 900 in your screen shot.

Sorry I upped the memory this afternoon and it's running at 950mhz. Would you say that's golden given the voltage? I can't see many other reports of similar people with same clocks at the low voltage?

 

[$ilent]

My Pulse happily runs similar clocks. I think it's pretty normal for 56's with a decent cooler.

At the same voltage? 960mv?

Thanks

 

[$ilent]

Looks average or just above average to me, not like it's doing 1700+ @ 1100mv

Righto I'll give that a try see if I can do it. I had it getting just shy of 24k graphics score at 1690mhz at 1000mv few days ago but apparently the score was abit low for the clock speed.

 

[$ilent]

What would be the maximum recommended voltage for benchmarking on air cooler?

 

[$ilent]

Core clocks looks very good, but my very old Vega56 (first batch from OCUK) can run memory at 1090mhz on Vega64 bios. Got a EKWB on it. I wonder how yours will perform water cooled. Shame its custom PCB.

Currently testing 1635mhz core and 950mhz memory at 960mv. Can't push memory past 950mhz on this bios atm. It's Samsung memory though so I could flash it.

 

[$ilent]

This is quite normal, the Pulse are very good clocking cards as Vega responds to low temps, so the improved cooler helps a lot there.
We see them generally all sustaining 1600-1650MHz in gaming, the golden ones sustain 1650-1700MHz core with some exceptional ones holding 1700+ on the pulse cooler, switch these to water and we have seen them around 1800 at which point they are Vega 64 / 1080/1080ti performance. Which at £280 really shows you the insane bargain these cards.

We generally leave the memory alone but of course.

Latest testing results, any good? I've also got p6 and p7 both set to same voltage, don't know if that makes a difference I've read they should be different.

 

[$ilent]

Just been to recheck my folding and it's now running. ore at 1680mhz. So it's gone up on it's own. Is this normal depending on the stress level?

I'm guessing so long as the core clock is under or level with what is set in p7 is normal?

 

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Today is cooler than yesterday, so could be down to lower ambient. Boost clock works from several sensor inputs.

Yeah, I was thinking that the difficult in folding units in F@H has effected it so that one particular unit was not as stressful as the first, thus the different clocks. Still this aint bad right?