The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

JediFragger · 3 Mar 2019 at 23:03

I'll check mine later @greatash and see if it's doing the same. Don't think it is though, idle temp seems about right.

greatash · 4 Mar 2019 at 02:36

Thanks. Just ran a couple benchmarks. Monitor at 60hz it applies the undervolts correctly and usually sits at 1v in games and 900mv idle.. changing to 144hz the card is stuck at 1.1v so ignoring the undervolt settings and drawing the same amount of frames.
Tried a fresh install of drivers no luck... will play around with a couple more things I guess I liked the card at 1v and 1600~ mhz. I dont really want to run it at 1.1v but if I have to i will just put the core clocks up to 1700+ for now

Im just confused why it does this

death_looms · 4 Mar 2019 at 09:24

Poneros said:
First of all, even an RX 480 will trump anything a PS4 Pro can do (let alone the base version)...

This is 100% true, I tried playing FFXV over steam link on a 2500k and an rx480 (4gb) and it loaded faster, played smoother and just looked better than the PS4, and that was going over a powerline ethernet from the PC and wireless to the steam link! Going to have to re-purpose to a living room game box when my 56 gets here for the main pc hopefully today, then I have to start looking at all this undervolting nonsense....

Poneros · 4 Mar 2019 at 13:04

death_looms said:
This is 100% true, I tried playing FFXV over steam link on a 2500k and an rx480 (4gb) and it loaded faster, played smoother and just looked better than the PS4, and that was going over a powerline ethernet from the PC and wireless to the steam link! Going to have to re-purpose to a living room game box when my 56 gets here for the main pc hopefully today, then I have to start looking at all this undervolting nonsense....

Yup, I was speaking from experience as I had an RX 480 8gb before, which was meant to be for parity with the X1X. I have a PS4 Pro, besides the PC, so I knew what it could and couldn't do, but frankly I found the whole console experience to be sub-par, and kept it now just for exclusives (which I didn't enjoy too much either)/ as a blu-ray player mostly. Should have just sold it but meh, can't be bothered. I was just shocked when in my first month of PS+ I got the TellTale Batman game and gave it a try just for the lulz but the damn thing was unplayable, it was so stuttery! Thought, okay, maybe it's just a poor game, but plenty of other games had the same issues. And this was on the pro! Clearly, it couldn't be my main gaming machine.

And the loading times, oh god, the loading horror... Persona 5 suckered me in, good on them for that, but they're not gonna get me again. Double the idiot I am, because I also had a PS3 and could've just played it on that, but couldn't get the order through on their store; should've just waited on a physical disk delivery.

death_looms · 4 Mar 2019 at 14:57

I can deal with it being lower quality visually, but frame rates and particularly load times are super important to me these days - I've only got so much time!

On the thread topic, my 56 arrived! Seeing more of an improvement than I thought, with CPU usage up as well. Got a few more games to try tonight, then traveling for a couple of weeks, but will get the cooler re-seated and undervolted/OV once it's had some bedding in time to make sure it's stable from the factory

Marcus Böpple · 4 Mar 2019 at 15:24

Somone played Assassins Creed Odyssey on 1440p ? (2560x1440)
Would be interested how many FPS you can get with Vega56

Zernath · 4 Mar 2019 at 17:31

Marcus Böpple said:
Somone played Assassins Creed Odyssey on 1440p ? (2560x1440)
Would be interested how many FPS you can get with Vega56

I can get 30-35 at 4K, before tweaking settings, so at 1440p that should be an easy 50-60 I'd imagine. I can try downscaling to 1440p and let you know if you're really interested?

dante6491 · 4 Mar 2019 at 18:44

Marcus Böpple said:
Somone played Assassins Creed Odyssey on 1440p ? (2560x1440)
Would be interested how many FPS you can get with Vega56

Paired mine with a 3570k now clocked at 4.4Ghz. Vega56 is stable at 900 on the memory. State 6 at 1602MHz 1025 mV and Stage 7 1612Mhz 1025 mV. Minimum frames I am seeing is around 48fps averaging high 50s.

Depends very much on your CPU as much as GPU as I am getting 100% utilisation across my cores apparently.

Marcus Böpple · 4 Mar 2019 at 19:10

@Zernath
I´m interested.. sure

@dante6491
I have an i5 4670k@4,2Ghz.
I know.. AC needs much CPU Power.
Did you play on High or mixed settings ?

My Sapphire Pulse is running @950 Memory 910mV / P6 1547 920mV / P7 1622 940mV

Zernath · 4 Mar 2019 at 20:35

Marcus Böpple said:
@Zernath
I´m interested.. sure

@dante6491
I have an i5 4670k@4,2Ghz.
I know.. AC needs much CPU Power.
Did you play on High or mixed settings ?

My Sapphire Pulse is running @950 Memory 910mV / P6 1547 920mV / P7 1622 940mV

Okay, so at 1440p with the Very High preset, I was seeing between 50-60 frames per second, as I suspected would be the case. It rarely dipped below 50, and the overall experience was very smooth. Very High is the second highest preset option, so that's rather impressive results in my opinion, especially for such a demanding game.

I'm running the MSI Vega 56 Air Boost OC, and haven't changed the stock values yet (although I do plan to in the near future), so with your overclock I would expect even better results.

Edit: Native 4K at 40 frames per second is possible with some tweaks to graphical options, particularly AA to low, shadows to high, and clutter to high. So the Vega 56 seems very capable, considering it isn't really a card aimed at 4K gaming, and I'm sure I could squeeze a little bit more out of it if I tweaked further.

$ilent · 4 Mar 2019 at 22:34

Anyone else tried playing division 2 with overclock? My game crashed other day which seemed strange since I can play bf5 for hours on same setting.

Zernath · 4 Mar 2019 at 23:14

$ilent said:
Anyone else tried playing division 2 with overclock? My game crashed other day which seemed strange since I can play bf5 for hours on same setting.

It seems to have major issues with DX12, did you have it enabled?

jebidia · 4 Mar 2019 at 23:16

$ilent said:
Anyone else tried playing division 2 with overclock? My game crashed other day which seemed strange since I can play bf5 for hours on same setting.

I crashed a few times playing Overwatch actually.

MG42Maniac · 4 Mar 2019 at 23:25

$ilent said:
Anyone else tried playing division 2 with overclock? My game crashed other day which seemed strange since I can play bf5 for hours on same setting.

I'm running at 1610/900 and it's been totally fine. It's a beta so I'd say any crashing is likely the game, not the OC.

$ilent · 5 Mar 2019 at 08:27

Zernath said:
It seems to have major issues with DX12, did you have it enabled?

No I'm win7 so dx11

Zernath · 5 Mar 2019 at 14:06

$ilent said:
No I'm win7 so dx11

There was also a config file with triple buffering enabled, which isn't in the options menu for some reason, so I disabled it, saved the file, and the game seemed a lot more stable. Hopefully these issues will be fixed for launch!

Marcus Böpple · 5 Mar 2019 at 16:55

Zernath said:
Okay, so at 1440p with the Very High preset, I was seeing between 50-60 frames per second, as I suspected would be the case. It rarely dipped below 50, and the overall experience was very smooth. Very High is the second highest preset option, so that's rather impressive results in my opinion, especially for such a demanding game.

I'm running the MSI Vega 56 Air Boost OC, and haven't changed the stock values yet (although I do plan to in the near future), so with your overclock I would expect even better results.

Edit: Native 4K at 40 frames per second is possible with some tweaks to graphical options, particularly AA to low, shadows to high, and clutter to high. So the Vega 56 seems very capable, considering it isn't really a card aimed at 4K gaming, and I'm sure I could squeeze a little bit more out of it if I tweaked further.

Thank you

Sounds good .. with some OC/UV there is a good chance to get the 60FPS permanent

Zernath · 5 Mar 2019 at 17:01

Marcus Böpple said:
Thank you Sounds good .. with some OC/UV there is a good chance to get the 60FPS permanent

No problem, it's a fun game, so testing this wasn't a chore. You'll definitely be able to get 60 with some OC/UV, I wasn't too far off it being a stable 60, and that's without touching MSI's stock settings.

I'm really happy with this card, the fact that I can get decent 4K performance out of it really made the asking price an even better deal!

Moobert · 5 Mar 2019 at 21:49

Wattman is allowing me to modify states 3, 4, 5 etc however 6 and 7 would be lower than 5. Would this be an issue or would i also need to lower the previous states?

Marcus Böpple · 6 Mar 2019 at 09:10

Zernath said:
No problem, it's a fun game, so testing this wasn't a chore. You'll definitely be able to get 60 with some OC/UV, I wasn't too far off it being a stable 60, and that's without touching MSI's stock settings.

I'm really happy with this card, the fact that I can get decent 4K performance out of it really made the asking price an even better deal!

Yes i love this card too. Hard times for Ngreedia atm.
My stable Settings above. Memory @950Mhz with 910mV