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RX VEGA AIB Cards Information Needed?

LoadsaMoney said:
Probably needs the 3x, to hold the stock boost clock, as the ref card can't.
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It can with some tweaking. Heat is the big reason it can't out the box. This should have a much better cooler than ref.. This the reason AIO boosts higher out of the box heat is less an issue even though all voltage is the same out of the box.

That Ninja Edit :p
 
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Hope no one is hyping their head off thinking 3rd party will find the secret stash of performance.

Stock Vega was built pretty well. If anything gets better it'll be because 3rd party allows a bigger cooler.
 
Hotwired said:
Hope no one is hyping their head off thinking 3rd party will find the secret stash of performance.

Stock Vega was built pretty well. If anything gets better it'll be because 3rd party allows a bigger cooler.
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Thats what I dont understand though, if a cooler does improve VEGA that we do know because the AIO shows this. Then why add another 8pin?
 
Eh maybe they want you to feel as if you're getting something for the 3rd party pricetag beside a 3 slot cooler.

Glue on an extra power connector, pretend it polishes the voltage or something.
 
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil

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Hotwired said:
Eh maybe they want you to feel as if you're getting something for the 3rd party pricetag beside a 3 slot cooler.

Glue on an extra power connector, pretend it polishes the voltage or something.
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So your telling me a quad exhaust on a 1.0 corsa doesnt do anything :p I dont think Vega comes close to exceeding 2 8pins so why 3, Im going to be optimistic and say its for stability which might help clocks. Most likely cooling is the biggest advance possible and we're seen its not dramatically helping either. Its only really two elements, better temperature and noise and the really wild factor would be some amazing balance of factors, greater stability allowing higher clocks but thats a pipe dream. I think all the designs look better too.

I think stock is fine and the card is full fan rpm when the game is noisy at least for the games I play. But I was all for AIB I'd probably would want the Nano or some special derivative
 
The 290x lightning came with 2x8 pin and an optional 6 pin. It's probably for extreme overclocking.

Two 8-pin, and a 6-pin PCIe plug. The required plugs are the two 8-pins while the third 6-pin is optional. You would likely only need that third plug if there were some BIOS/voltage mods though, as the .1v out of the box will not likely take that far past its TDP.
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Telecaster said:
LOL, 'extreme' and 'overclocking' used whilst talking about AMD, are you in the right thread? :D
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Well stock Vega boosts around 1420 average. Guys in here have them up to 1800mhz under water. That's more room than pretty much anything Nvidia has on the market atm. I doubt any air cooler is getting you there but in theory these boards could be good for LN2 and the likes or even water. I doubt it's there just for show. Could just be some marketing gimmick though.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Well stock Vega boosts around 1420 average. Guys in here have them up to 1800mhz under water. That's more room than pretty much anything Nvidia has on the market atm. I doubt any air cooler is getting you there but in theory these boards could be good for LN2 and the likes or even water. I doubt it's there just for show. Could just be some marketing gimmick though.
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But if you look in the benchmarking threads there is a 1950 clocked vega that doesn't perform as good as lower clocked version of the same card, I think there's something fishy going on with vega clocks and just "bigger numbers" isn't the be all and end all.
 
Telecaster said:
But if you look in the benchmarking threads there is a 1950 clocked vega that doesn't perform as good as lower clocked version of the same card, I think there's something fishy going on with vega clocks and just "bigger numbers" isn't the be all and end all.
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Was a false reading. Think his real core was between 1700 and 1800 like the others. I believe this bug has been fixed and anything you see now is indeed the proper clocks. @AMDMatt should be able to clarify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBx73n-fgdE
 
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Telecaster said:
But if you look in the benchmarking threads there is a 1950 clocked vega that doesn't perform as good as lower clocked version of the same card, I think there's something fishy going on with vega clocks and just "bigger numbers" isn't the be all and end all.
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As therealdeal said, early drivers gave false readings. Although mine is barely faster at 1640 than 1580 as the HBM gets too hot and loosens timings dramatically.
 
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