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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

Having an issue with my Vega 56. Suddenly in FIFA 17 or Photoshop Lightroom, rarely and randomly I get the white noise (actually slight pink grey) screen in the photo attached. PC becomes unresponsive, keyboard and mouse lights are on. Have to hard reset. Reinstalled drivers with DDU, no help. Happened with both Radeon Relive driver from August and with the latest ones. With my GTX 1070 never had this problem in the same PC.

I had many GPUs in the past but I've never seen this error before. You guys saw this before?
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Overclocker321 said:
Having an issue with my Vega 56. Suddenly in FIFA 17 or Photoshop Lightroom, rarely and randomly I get the white noise (actually slight pink grey) screen in the photo attached. PC becomes unresponsive, keyboard and mouse lights are on. Have to hard reset. Reinstalled drivers with DDU, no help. Happened with both Radeon Relive driver from August and with the latest ones. With my GTX 1070 never had this problem in the same PC.

I had many GPUs in the past but I've never seen this error before. You guys saw this before?
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I had a similar issue from time to time with my old rx480 using a certain displayport adapter, all i used to do was turn the screen off and then on again and it would sort itself out. Haven't seen this on my 56 yet but am not using any adapters.
 
Overclocker321 said:
Having an issue with my Vega 56. Suddenly in FIFA 17 or Photoshop Lightroom, rarely and randomly I get the white noise (actually slight pink grey) screen in the photo attached. PC becomes unresponsive, keyboard and mouse lights are on. Have to hard reset. Reinstalled drivers with DDU, no help. Happened with both Radeon Relive driver from August and with the latest ones. With my GTX 1070 never had this problem in the same PC.

I had many GPUs in the past but I've never seen this error before. You guys saw this before?
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MSI reference card : "... Features: All Solid Capacitors
• 10 years long lifetime under full load.
• Lower temperature and higher efficiency.
• Aluminium core for higher stability..."

The Sapphire and Powercolor reference models lack this in their descriptions. Also, MSI could be using better quality SMD components on their PCBs? They have better quality suppliers.

:confused:
 
jimhaumman said:
MSI reference card : "... Features: All Solid Capacitors
• 10 years long lifetime under full load.
• Lower temperature and higher efficiency.
• Aluminium core for higher stability..."

The Sapphire and Powercolor reference models lack this in their descriptions. Also, MSI could be using better quality SMD components on their PCBs? They have better quality suppliers.

:confused:
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All the reference cards are identical, none of the AIB's make any variants. They are all produced on the same line using the same process and components. The only difference appears to be the 56 vs 64 interposer.
 
I just received my Vega 56 a few days ago, done some testing over the weekend and wanted to share my thoughts with you.
overall its positive, performance is very good, but the main issues i have relate to the drivers that are still buggy, i had the white noise screen, blank screens, some random crashes, and there is bug with radeon relive that maintains 100% gpu load even after existing the game and the card should normally go back to idle, the work around for this is to manually turn relive off then on.
I tested the card at stock, turbo and undervolted with overclocked memory and increased power and fan speed.
difference between balanced and turbo was not much, however with undervolting and overclocking the memory along with power offset and custom fan profile it makes a big jump in performance.

the results were as follows:

1- CPU OC 3.7GHz and GPU balanced
Time spy: 6232
graphics 6042
CPU 7584
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/2357279
Avg clock 1325
peak Temp 64

2- CPU OC 3.7GHz and GPU turbo
Time spy: 6402
graphics 6240
CPU 7515
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/2357326
Avg clock 1400
peak Temp 70

3- CPU OC 3.7GHz and GPU undervolted 1075-1100, HBM 945, power +50%
Time spy: 7006
graphics 6908
CPU 7620
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/2357466
Avg clock 1540
peak Temp 64

4- CPU OC 3.7 and GPU balanced
Fire strike: 15218
graphics 19013
physics 18483
combined 5510
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13581529
Avg clock 1310
peak Temp 71

5- CPU OC 3.7 and GPU turbo
Fire strike: 15581
graphics 19752
physics 18992
combined 5462
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13581446
Avg clock 1350
peak Temp 71

6- CPU OC 3.7 and GPU undervolted 1075-1100, HBM 945, power +50%
Fire strike: 16794
graphics 22202
physics 19045
combined 5591
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13581352
Avg clock 1535
peak Temp 68

Finally a video showing actual gaming performance: https://youtu.be/bTyLEwnFca8
 
jimhaumman said:
MSI reference card : "... Features: All Solid Capacitors
• 10 years long lifetime under full load.
• Lower temperature and higher efficiency.
• Aluminium core for higher stability..."

The Sapphire and Powercolor reference models lack this in their descriptions. Also, MSI could be using better quality SMD components on their PCBs? They have better quality suppliers.

:confused:
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Yet I've had more failed MSI hardware than literally any other brand and I am not just talking graphics cards, it is everything, laptops, motherboards literally everything I have owned with an msi badge on it. My r9 280x Gaming couldn't even manage its stock OC clocks, it went back several times and still can't manage its stock clocks. When people say MSI I think of shoddy build quality and almost non existent customer service. MSI has become a brand I associate with disappointment so I will no longer buy their products.

Edit: I would love to know the failure rates by manufacturer per generation not including reference cards, that would make some pretty interesting reading. In terms of reference cards though I don't think I have ever had a failure. My old 5850's mined ltc for about 3 years solid, going full pelt and running up above 80 degrees and to this day work perfectly apart from one fan that has grinding bearings. All they do these days is sit collecting dust. Mind you perhaps including the reference cards wouldn't be such a bad idea, I worked for a business that selected a laptop and owned a few myself that had the Nvidia geforce 8000 series in them and the failure rates were horrific.
 
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henson0115 said:
Are you able to test another monitor or type of cable, dp or dvi for example?
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Nope, my monitor got only HDMI and DVI ports. The Vega 56 got only HDMI and display ports. Reseted the settings on my monitor and waiting to see if will happen again. I'm still on Windows 7 (DX11) so maybe AMD drivers are more stable for Vega on Win 10 (DX12). Will install soon Win 10 though.
 
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