The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

SpudMaster · 22 Oct 2017 at 19:56

Illuminist said:
Nice chun li sexual assualt desktop picture, I think i've seen that hentai lol

Yeah in project cars 2 it is stable i think it was just battlegrounds and evil within 2 that i tested with did not hold steady clocks.
That's a nice undervolt you have there, what driver do you use. (i'm jealous of your temperatures also )

That's Street Fighter 2 snes box art

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I don't have evil within 2 but I'll test pubg tonight. I'm using the Fall Creators update beta driver, 17.40 I think it is.

SpudMaster · 23 Oct 2017 at 15:43

That my vega56 activity during a round of PUBG. Doesn't boost as much as in BF1, about 20mhz less on average but maintains steady clocks.

Illuminist · 23 Oct 2017 at 16:12

SpudMaster said:
That my vega56 activity during a round of PUBG. Doesn't boost as much as in BF1, about 20mhz less on average but maintains steady clocks.

This is very useful, thank you for that.

This is not what mine does at all.... in the main menu it maxes out the gpu hmb and clocks to 935 and 1630 causing the fans to go 100% then in the warm up my hbm flickers from 500/800/935 (orwhatver hbm i set it to) the clocks go from 1237 to 1375 to 1500 around and giggle about between them. Then in game it starts for 10 minutes at very low clocks and 800/935/800/935 and then suddenly locks at 935 and the correct clocks, it's like it realises its being stupid and starts working properly, like its boss caught it on youtube at work and suddenly pretends its been working hard all the time XD

What could be the issue for me? On a side note, when waking from sleep mode windows 10 doesnt come back, instead it restarts the pc. not sure if thats related, coz is doesnt do that on the 56 bios.
On a side side note, when i get the Uv or OC wrong the whole system hangs and restarts the entire pc....

Evilmethod666 · 23 Oct 2017 at 20:36

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_sc5ERx_a1vaEkzeHE0LThEZDA

Received my Heatkiller 4 for RX Vega today so far really impressed really well made sadly wont be able to install for a few weeks!

LtMatt · 25 Oct 2017 at 12:18

Vega 56 beating out a GTX 1080 in Destiny 2. :cool:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/destiny_2_pc_graphics_performance_benchmark_review,5.html

Overlag · 25 Oct 2017 at 13:08

Vega definitely has the power, just isn't used properly at the moment.

WizardOne · 25 Oct 2017 at 13:46

AMDMatt said:
Vega 56 beating out a GTX 1080 in Destiny 2.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/destiny_2_pc_graphics_performance_benchmark_review,5.html

I just watched a Nexus video where he suggested it was Depth Of Field graphics settings that were impacting on the GTX card performance more than AMD. So he reduced the preset from Highest to High in order to show GTX cards performing on par/better than RX Vega.

I get people want to spite AMD for not living up to the hype for the RX Vega cards at launch, but surely manipulating graphics settings to support your stance is a bit low....

LtMatt · 25 Oct 2017 at 13:49

I'm sure plenty of benchmarks can be skewed by manipulating the settings one way or another.

I play the game maxed out and it looks very nice for the theme of this game i think.

ICDP · 26 Oct 2017 at 14:03

Perfect_Chaos said:
I gave up after 2 tries, 2nd time i checked to make sure it had contact with the core. Just in Windows temps fluctuated a lot, doing a quick test twice was enough to kill the GPU. So don't expect auto shutdown to save your card if it ever goes above the temp limit even for just a short period.

Air seems to be an issue with these things, if it's not that then I'm not sure.. We shouldn't have to buy any reservoir to fiddle around getting air out, it's supposed to be a cooler that you just connect 2 hoses and be done with it.

Seems like it's more trouble than the worth of it tbh, i might just end up getting a decent air cooled card next time. Never had an issue when i used to water cool the CPU, but the GPU has made me feel like not wanting to do it again.

Geck0 said:
Sounds like it's just a crap cooler, even with having to template and re-drill the G10 bracket and base plate the mod only took a couple hours end to end for me. I'm a mechanic by trade but still, I was being careful and drinking beer LOL.

Don't blame yourself, a product like that ought to be a no brainer.

I was planning to get an Eiswolf for my V64 but the excessive time for them to become available and Gecko's thread about the G10 mod forced my hand. I had a Kraken G10 and a Corsair H110 so I did the mod with my good hand broken and in a plaster cast. Even with that temporary disability I was able to do the mod in a few hours and it works great.

At ~220W total power consumption (1000mV with +50% PL) I get 1550 core clock, with 1100 HBM and temps as follows after an evening playing Witcher 3.

Core temp: 46c - 47c
Hotspot: 58c - 61c
HBM: 49c - 51c

Witcher 3 seems to consume more power at these settings than other games. For example Tomb Raider at the same settings consumes ~200W and runs 3-4c cooler on core, HBM and hotspot.

This is with the H110 fans at 70%-80% fan speed.

I'm kinda happy I didn't get the Eiswolf now. Sorry to hear you guys have had such problems with it.

Geck0 · 26 Oct 2017 at 20:56

Good to see something I said was of use for once haha.

The really great thing about AIO mods is the re-usability with little effort & cost for great performance.

WizardOne · 26 Oct 2017 at 21:12

Geck0 said:
Good to see something I said was of use for once haha.

The really great thing about AIO mods is the re-usability with little effort & cost for great performance.

I'm really gutted that I haven't gone down the AIO modded cooling route. Embarrassing as it sounds, especially for me, I don't have the right tools nor the confidence to drill the holes in the mounting bracket and backplate.
Having finally decided to pull the trigger on a Raijintek Morpheus ii cooler they have all gone out of stock! Now I am hunting for stock availability at less-than-reputable sites in the hope of trying to find one, but no real luck.
Any ideas?

Geck0 · 27 Oct 2017 at 13:15

WizardOne said:
I'm really gutted that I haven't gone down the AIO modded cooling route. Embarrassing as it sounds, especially for me, I don't have the right tools nor the confidence to drill the holes in the mounting bracket and backplate.
Having finally decided to pull the trigger on a Raijintek Morpheus ii cooler they have all gone out of stock! Now I am hunting for stock availability at less-than-reputable sites in the hope of trying to find one, but no real luck.
Any ideas?

Mate you don't need to be a pro and the mod does NOT need to be accurate to the mm. If I was local I'd shout you a beer and walk you through it - but make you do it so next time you'd not have a confidence problem. I do get your angst - it's a bit of a risk and not exactly a cheap card.

Can anyone in London give this guy a hand?

Bonjour · 27 Oct 2017 at 16:04

I have two Corsair HG10 brackets, which were previously fitted to 290s/390s. I'll have a look how feasible it would be to mod one of these for Vega..

silversurfer · 27 Oct 2017 at 17:14

Practice on an old card first, tons of hot old graphics cards to get upto speed with

Number_25 · 28 Oct 2017 at 12:53

Would a Thermaltake Smart SE 630W be enough to power a 56?

zophiel · 28 Oct 2017 at 15:03

should be fine. The wife has a 56 in hers using a evga 550gs and its works perfectly

solarp · 28 Oct 2017 at 17:25

Curious, I have set my vega 56 to stock levels for the moment whilst waiting for some case fans to be delivered (w/ morpheus ii heatsink upgrade, lots of hot air flowing around) and the maximum power draw at the gpu only whilst at load (according to GPU-Z) is 168w, is this normal? I thought it was much higher. Doesn't seem to throttle from what I can tell (temps hang well below 50 majority of the time)

silversurfer · 28 Oct 2017 at 22:31

Need to list a full spec really. Sometimes I use the vega and its not even above 100 watts the whole time, modern cards can operate so efficiently. The relevant part for power worries is really top end performance and what happens. So if you run the card at 4k always it'll start to stress it properly, even on a 1080p monitor in Radeon drivers under Display you can enable virtual super resolutions. Then in every game you can run it at 4k and it'll display on 1080p but in the background be processing at that higher res. So on most games this should be more of a workload for the card, it could be your CPU means at a lower res the vega is sitting around waiting and so it runs cool and low wattage.

Its a big issue that GPU have surpassed CPU, we should be leaving dx11 in the past or it'll get boring

solarp · 29 Oct 2017 at 11:19

silversurfer said:
Need to list a full spec really.

R5 1600 @ 3.8 (1.32v)
16gb @ 2933mhz
RX Vega @ Stock w/ morpheus ii cooler (idles @ 21, average load @ 50)
1080p

Mostly playing D:OS2 at the moment, and game activity jumps around like a ping pong ball. But under stress when using truly un-optimized games (AC4: Black Flag!) and games that eat the numbers (DOOM) I never see it rise above 168w. I was reading on another forum and someone said if it's below 215w then something is wrong? Perhaps they're wrong. My hotspot temps are way too high (30-35 degrees higher than core temps, thermal grizzly on the way) so perhaps it is thermal throttling? Not sure, should have checked these numbers before I fitted the morpheus.

zophiel · 30 Oct 2017 at 13:50

Well I cancelled my eiswolf orders with alphacool/aquatuning, bunch of cowboys have had stock on sale and available briefly over the last 2 weeks, but they are not fulfilling the back orders first. Had this order waiting from the 27th of sept. Kept being fobbed off with the blame the supplier. Had 2 confirmed dates for the order to be fulfilled, which didnt happen. Had to get in touch with them every time the deadline was passed as they didnt even bother to write to us about it.

Now will have to look for something else, or go full water cooling solution. Which I couldn't be bothered with to start with.