The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

Nexus18 · 31 May 2020 at 11:39

dante6491 said:
Seems a little high for idle although it does depend on your case and room. Is that pre/post/during gaming?

Yesterday I changed the thermal paste on mine and currently idling between 33-36'C in a Phanteks Enthoo Pro M.

Sorry should have said, so the columns going from left to right are current, min, max, average temps, this will be with all usage i.e. idle and gaming.

Case is fractal meshify c and the room is pretty toasty last few days tbf.

SonicSW20 · 31 May 2020 at 14:04

With default fan settings, it won't go above 50% fan speed (around 2k RPM) which is fine for stock power limit but with +50% things will get toasty pretty quick.

Stewart Mclean · 23 Jun 2020 at 21:29

Have many of you water cooled your Vegas? I have an Asus Strix (yes I know) vega 56 which I've repasted and also changed thermal pads on. It's undervolted and not overclocked, which runs fine if warmer than most.

I had an issue with a recent game which was easily fixed but the temps on the card went up a lot and its got me itchy about cooling etc again.

I'm tempted to buy an alphacool eiswolf. I game at 1080p 60hz currently but I'm also tempted to go 1440p 144hz. Rather than change card, would the alphacool allow this at a better £ per frame cost?

Also, thanks to everyone who posted in this thread, especially those with their custom profiles etc.
I was too impatient with my build which is why I got an Asus card and not a red dragon or sapphire.

SonicSW20 · 23 Jun 2020 at 23:22

Used Vega 56 Strix sells on eBay for somewhere around the £200 mark.
Quick Google suggests an Eiswolf is about £160 or so.

So effective "cost" of £360.

Sticking to AMD, a Sapphire Nitro 5700XT is "only" £70 more...

Stewart Mclean · 24 Jun 2020 at 00:29

SonicSW20 said:
Used Vega 56 Strix sells on eBay for somewhere around the £200 mark.
Quick Google suggests an Eiswolf is about £160 or so.

So effective "cost" of £360.

Sticking to AMD, a Sapphire Nitro 5700XT is "only" £70 more...

Interesting way of looking at it. Guess you'd have to weigh up the FPS uplift to 1440p at 144HZ for the extra £70 and hassle of selling a cracked open Vega 56

SpudMaster · 24 Jun 2020 at 02:31

I've have my Vega 56 cooled with an EK full cover block since the cards released. I run at 1630/1100mhz with a V64 bios, core temps are normally around 45°C when gaming.

Boomstick777 · 24 Jun 2020 at 10:39

Could sell the VEGA 56 and pick up a new card with the money towards it. RTX 2070 Super and 5700 XT are absolute beasts.

Stewart Mclean · 24 Jun 2020 at 12:11

Thanks guys. I'll have a think on things. Maybe I'll wait and see what happens later in the year with new cards.

I suspect I'll keep the 56 for now as I don't know when I'll change monitor yet.

fastwunz · 24 Jun 2020 at 15:44

Stewart Mclean said:
Thanks guys. I'll have a think on things. Maybe I'll wait and see what happens later in the year with new cards.

I suspect I'll keep the 56 for now as I don't know when I'll change monitor yet.

the 56 is still a stonking card. No need to upgrade for most people at the moment

Poneros · 24 Jun 2020 at 17:36

Stewart Mclean said:
I'm tempted to buy an alphacool eiswolf. I game at 1080p 60hz currently but I'm also tempted to go 1440p 144hz. Rather than change card, would the alphacool allow this at a better £ per frame cost?

That product has problematic QA and the performance it would allow extra is minimal. 100% do not spend any money on the Vega card outside of thermal paste & vrm pads. NOT worth it.

Stewart Mclean · 24 Jun 2020 at 18:49

Poneros said:
That product has problematic QA and the performance it would allow extra is minimal. 100% do not spend any money on the Vega card outside of thermal paste & vrm pads. NOT worth it.

Cheers for the heads up

michty_me · 13 Aug 2020 at 22:13

I recently undervolted my Vega 56 and didn't think there was much of a difference, I've since realised that my fan settings are set to silent so will need to see what like when ramping up the fans. It seems to be sitting around 69-70 deg playing warzone with the fans set the way they are.

linwelin · 13 Aug 2020 at 22:26

This may have already been asked in this thread but not gonna look through it all but, has anyone had any success with flashing to Vega 64?

gpuerrilla · 13 Aug 2020 at 22:31

What RAM does it have?

linwelin · 13 Aug 2020 at 22:37

Th0nt said:
What RAM does it have?

gpuerrilla · 13 Aug 2020 at 22:49

I think the Samsung ones can be flashed. Your in luck!

I have Hynix and its not great so didnt bother.

linwelin · 13 Aug 2020 at 23:34

Th0nt said:
I think the Samsung ones can be flashed. Your in luck!

I have Hynix and its not great so didnt bother.

I have the Sapphire PULSE RX Vega 56 but im not sure it can be flashed, or would it just be better to overclock it ?

gpuerrilla · 13 Aug 2020 at 23:43

linwelin said:
I have the Sapphire PULSE RX Vega 56 but im not sure it can be flashed, or would it just be better to overclock it ?

Good driver, undervolt, slight overclock.

Poneros · 14 Aug 2020 at 01:47

linwelin said:
I have the Sapphire PULSE RX Vega 56 but im not sure it can be flashed, or would it just be better to overclock it ?

You have 2 bioses so you can safely flash it. I'd do it for sure, the extra HBM juice is gonna do wonders.

phatboy · 14 Aug 2020 at 08:45

I did it on my old 56 reference, was well worth the effort a which tbh wasn't a lot!

As long as you have dual BIOS on the card it's safe to do and the increases you see because of the raised voltage HBM are pretty impressive.

I undervolted the core and overclocked the HBM, Card ran great and cool

Only big important things are:
1. backup your original BIOS first
2. make sure you use the BIOS from EXACTLY the same brand / model of 64 that your 56 is.

There is a full library of BIOS files here -
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/