Oh yes, I'll state it again. Personally I do appreciate Vega 56 better compared to the 64. Vega 56 offers and is a better proposition at 399 USD. That money just feels right for what you get. It's more or less 10% slower than the 64 (air-cooled model) yet 20% cheaper. Meanwhile the 56 passes the GeForce GTX 1070 and really is not that far off the GeForce GTX 1080. I can see the AIB partner board being clocked a notch higher, gaining in that remaining 10% difference. But sure, even in this default reference configuration there's a lot to say for Vega 56. Vega 56 will be more than sufficient enough for a wide scope of monitor resolutions and heavy games. It is a bit of a workhorse and really, not much away from it's bigger brother. And let's face it, the nice 8 GB graphics memory certainly is enough for toady's games and onces in the future as that is a proper framebuffer. The advantages in-between GDDR5X and HBM2 I'll leave for what it is, I do feel that Vega with GDDR5X would have been a lovely solution and if AMD had diverted to a Plan B product, they probably could have had Vega in stores by Christmas last year. Who knows, it is what it is though. Connect your Vega 56 towards a nice FreeSync monitor and you'll have a really nice gaming experience even in the highest resolutions. Much like the 64, the 56 model air-cooled reference products will not be silent, in fact even the RX 56 exhibits a fairly moderately audible airflow that you will hear continuously while gaming. The good news here is that it is not at an annoying sound or sound-level, but yeah it's not at all silent. We also heard a fair bit of coil-noise in high-fps games, again nothing too worrying in a closed chassis. Cooling wise we hope to see AIB partners offer solutions with much improved coolers, cooling levels and also noise levels as there is a lot to be gained there over the reference design. Gaming wise you are rock solid though. Nicely rendered game-play is what you get back in return whilst you enable the most intensive image quality settings. And isn't that what it is all about with PC gaming? Overall we can recommend the Radeon RX Vega 64, but I would recommend the Vega 56 over the 64. It just seems to make more sense. I can only hope that AIB partners and the mining craze will not artificially inflate the prices as really, both 56 and 64 air-cooled cannot be any more expensive relative towards their game performance levels. For PC gaming I can certainly recommend Radeon RX Vega 56. It is a proper and good performance level that it offers, priced right. And also I really want to factor this into your purchasing decision, the Radeon Crimson software suite has advanced so much with much better support and stability fixes compared to say two years ago. I highly applaud that fact alone. Recommended you guys. I do however will place a last side-note here, if you are all about silent graphics card then you will be better off, and wait a bit more until we have tested some board partner cards, with custom coolers.
