The Radeon VII Owners Thread

Hades · 30 Jun 2019 at 12:19

What's the general opinion of Vega VII vs a GTX 1080Ti on an ultrawide or a 4k?

Donnie Fisher · 30 Jun 2019 at 19:34

I'd be interested in this... I have a 1080Ti mini ... but I so want a Radeon VII instead... I have no idea why. My heart says the Radeon, but sensibility stays keep what I have.

Besty · 30 Jun 2019 at 19:37

There is an army of us waiting for a good 1080ti upgrade path, be patient but this card is not it.

Poneros · 30 Jun 2019 at 22:22

The VII will generally be better but if you want to work it properly it's going to be noisy. It really needs water imo. At this calibre of GPUs though I wouldn't buy it unless you satisfy the following conditions: You want cheap 8K crossfire once DP 1.4 -> HDMI 2.1 adapters come through or you have a watercooled setup already. Or both.

I'll take RTXing Cyberpunk with a 2080 over a VII any day otherwise.

Hades · 30 Jun 2019 at 23:36

Thanks. I'm a bit up in the air with GPU's at the moment. I'm building my son a PC and was going to get him a mid range card. But it makes sense to give him my Vega 64 and buy something even better. I really like AMD for several reasons; promoting competition, open source drivers, better Linux support and works in a Hackintosh if I build one (which to be fair is probably not going to happen). But at the higher end it looks like nVidia probably makes more sense for me. Let's see what happens over the next few weeks as it might shake up the market a bit with Navi, Supers and possible price reductions on old stock from both sides. Maybe the 7 will make more sense if the price falls a bit.

Zernath · 1 Jul 2019 at 00:33

Has anyone had issues with the bios screen not displaying when booting? Since installing my VII, my monitor does not display anything until Windows has loaded. Google hasn't been particularly helpful so far, so just wondering if anyone here has encountered this issue? :confused:

Edit: Sorted. A quick poke around in the bios uncovered the culprit, the primary display was not set to PCI-E, which likely meant that the bios splash screen was being displayed on something other than my Radeon VII! I'm not sure why this happened, as I have used DP for nearly a year without running into this particular problem.

vapor matt · 1 Jul 2019 at 09:16

Hades said:
Thanks. I'm a bit up in the air with GPU's at the moment. I'm building my son a PC and was going to get him a mid range card. But it makes sense to give him my Vega 64 and buy something even better. I really like AMD for several reasons; promoting competition, open source drivers, better Linux support and works in a Hackintosh if I build one (which to be fair is probably not going to happen). But at the higher end it looks like nVidia probably makes more sense for me. Let's see what happens over the next few weeks as it might shake up the market a bit with Navi, Supers and possible price reductions on old stock from both sides. Maybe the 7 will make more sense if the price falls a bit.

I have said before the VII is a great card, offering great gaming along with great compute and 16g HBM2 under water cooling its even better.

Zernath · 1 Jul 2019 at 12:56

Well, I thought I'd sorted my issue out, but upon booting up today my monitor still doesn't fire up until Windows loads. I can only surmise that it has something to do with DP not being recognised during the boot process, but as to why that's suddenly happening.... I'm out of ideas.

TheRealDeal · 1 Jul 2019 at 13:06

Zernath said:
Well, I thought I'd sorted my issue out, but upon booting up today my monitor still doesn't fire up until Windows loads. I can only surmise that it has something to do with DP not being recognised during the boot process, but as to why that's suddenly happening.... I'm out of ideas.

I get this with Vega 64 and have done for ages now. Its intermittent though. Some boots are normal and some I don't see a thing until I need to enter my password. I always thought it was something to do with fast boot or csm on my Asus board. Its happened on 4 different bios. USB devices also seem to kick in slower when it happens.

Zernath · 1 Jul 2019 at 13:20

TheRealDeal said:
I get this with Vega 64 and have done for ages now. Its intermittent though. Some boots are normal and some I don't see a thing until I need to enter my password. I always thought it was something to do with fast boot or csm on my Asus board. Its happened on 4 different bios. USB devices also seem to kick in slower when it happens.

The weird thing is that I didn't have this issue with my Vega 56, so I have no idea why it has suddenly started. :confused:

Zerotre · 1 Jul 2019 at 13:34

i've a similar problem, but it only occurs when i reboot the system, i can enter bios but the monitor remains in standby, i've to reset and then it powers on....

vapor matt · 1 Jul 2019 at 13:43

Zernath said:
Well, I thought I'd sorted my issue out, but upon booting up today my monitor still doesn't fire up until Windows loads. I can only surmise that it has something to do with DP not being recognised during the boot process, but as to why that's suddenly happening.... I'm out of ideas.

Check it has the latest bios on the card, when they first came out there was a bios update to solve that issue.

Zernath · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:02

vapor matt said:
Check it has the latest bios on the card, when they first came out there was a bios update to solve that issue.

The bios appears to be up to date, and GPU-Z shows the card as being UEFI enabled.

Zerotre · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:08

i've the last asrock bios:

2019-01-19 version 016.004.000.030.011639

but the amd one is newer:

2019-02-11 version 016.004.000.038.011717 and it's the same version of the last sapphire and msi bios.

it's safe to flash on my asrock?

Zernath · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:12

Zerotre said:
i've the last asrock bios:

2019-01-19 version 016.004.000.030.011639

but the amd one is newer:

2019-02-11 version 016.004.000.038.011717 and it's the same version of the last sapphire and msi bios.

it's safe to flash on my asrock?

That AMD bios is the one my XFX card is running, so you should be fine. As far as I'm aware, all Radeon VII's are identical, regardless of the manufacturer.

vapor matt · 1 Jul 2019 at 16:08

the latest AMD bios released will be fine to flash, they are all the same cards, reference cards.

Jamin280672 · 1 Jul 2019 at 16:45

Zerotre said:
i've the last asrock bios:

2019-01-19 version 016.004.000.030.011639

but the amd one is newer:

2019-02-11 version 016.004.000.038.011717 and it's the same version of the last sapphire and msi bios.

it's safe to flash on my asrock?

Id be interested to see how this went for you ? I have the ASRock card too, a link to the bios would be good too so I can compare to the current bios on the card.

As for noise, I dont overclock GPU's, as long as they do what I want them to do perfectly fine at stock, im more than happy with it, this card that I brought off @Illuminist is a brilliant card, at stock its undervolted to 981mv and in gaming although I can hear it in intense games like BF5 in 4K, its not overly noisy, games like Day of infamy and Sandstorm I rarely hear it.

Illuminist · 1 Jul 2019 at 17:56

Poneros said:
The VII will generally be better but if you want to work it properly it's going to be noisy. It really needs water imo. At this calibre of GPUs though I wouldn't buy it unless you satisfy the following conditions: You want cheap 8K crossfire once DP 1.4 -> HDMI 2.1 adapters come through or you have

Jamin280672 said:
Id be interested to see how this went for you ? I have the ASRock card too, a link to the bios would be good too so I can compare to the current bios on the card.

As for noise, I dont overclock GPU's, as long as they do what I want them to do perfectly fine at stock, im more than happy with it, this card that I brought off @Illuminist is a brilliant card, at stock its undervolted to 981mv and in gaming although I can hear it in intense games like BF5 in 4K, its not overly noisy, games like Day of infamy and Sandstorm I rarely hear it.

She is a lovely one, very happy to hear you are enjoying it!

Zerotre · 1 Jul 2019 at 19:03

Jamin280672 said:
Id be interested to see how this went for you ? I have the ASRock card too, a link to the bios would be good too so I can compare to the current bios on the card.

As for noise, I dont overclock GPU's, as long as they do what I want them to do perfectly fine at stock, im more than happy with it, this card that I brought off @Illuminist is a brilliant card, at stock its undervolted to 981mv and in gaming although I can hear it in intense games like BF5 in 4K, its not overly noisy, games like Day of infamy and Sandstorm I rarely hear it.

you can check your current bios version using gpuz, but i don't know if you can save a correct bios with that, i think it's better to use something like atiflash to save it.

You can download the last bios from amd web site here

I've just updated the bios, i will check the card...

Jamin280672 · 1 Jul 2019 at 19:43

Zerotre said:
you can check your current bios version using gpuz, but i don't know if you can save a correct bios with that, i think it's better to use something like atiflash to save it.

You can download the last bios from amd web site here

I've just updated the bios, i will check the card...

Thanks, Just compared the bioses, this is exactly the same bios that is on the ASRock website 26/02/19 version 190221 https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G/#BIOS