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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

ubersonic said:
Are you sure they're supposed too? Looking at Sapphires site only the Nitro 56 Limited Edition has the light up shroud, the standard Nitro 56 only has the light up backplate. If yours has two 8pins I would expect it to be the regular version with non RGB shroud.

You can easily check which version you have in GPUz, the Nitro 56 has a 1266MHz base clock and the Nitro LE has 1305Mhz.
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Goddamnit. Spent ages looking at this, it's not a special edition. It looks like they light up as it's inlayed with clear plastic. I guess it just doesn't. At least I got the backplate and side to light up in red. Hopefully they will atleast fix trixx to support its LEDs at some point.

Cheers for clarifying that.
 
nashathedog said:
My Fury Tri-x had a backend like this that helped with cooling and allowed it to out perform all the other Fury pro models in noise and temp levels, I was hoping all the Sapphire Vega's were going to follow suit.

The Fury Tri-x was the nicest card I've owned being built better than all the other cards I've had.
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Amen to that. Superb build quality.
 
Kaapstad said:
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https://www.techpowerup.com/241229/sapphire-launches-pulse-radeon-rx-vega-56-graphics-card
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This Sapphire card is in stock (shock, horror!) here in the US for $750.

Is it worth me snagging one? Hoping to build a new rig around Ryzen 2, and my credit card covers me a for price rewind if the price drops within 60 days.

One question I have is about the back of the card; obviously great that it blows hot air straight through the heatsink, but doesn't this all get dumped onto your CPU / RAM? I feel like that's probably a bad thing...!

Also are there any build quality difference between Pulse and Nitro? I have a Nitro R9 380 and think it's great, but want to make sure the Sapphire stuff is up to scratch also.

Cheers,

Su
 
^^ loud :eek:
Sumanji said:
Is it worth me snagging one? Hoping to build a new rig around Ryzen 2, and my credit card covers me a for price rewind if the price drops within 60 days.
Su
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Sounds like a great excuse, thats definitely not cheap but it seems a fair chance there could be a price blip down in 60 days (its really about stock being there right). Depends how tough the terms are or if its for any drop at all
 
silversurfer said:
Sounds like a great excuse, thats definitely not cheap but it seems a fair chance there could be a price blip down in 60 days (its really about stock being there right). Depends how tough the terms are or if its for any drop at all
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Price just dropped to $680!

I think I might hang fire... even if I buy it, I have nothing to put it into until Ryzen+ arrives.

Seems like prices might start tumbling across the board soon :D
 
Hi there chaps, I RMA'd my reference 56 and because its almost 28 days with no replacement I have been possibly offered a 56 Red Dragon as a replacement, does anyone know if there are water blocks for this? or if you can bios it to 64?
Or even if it is actually any good at all, the very small amount of reviews of it aren't to helpful in regards to any of this, and none of them compare it to a reference 56 so I'm bemused.
 
Illuminist said:
Hi there chaps, I RMA'd my reference 56 and because its almost 28 days with no replacement I have been possibly offered a 56 Red Dragon as a replacement, does anyone know if there are water blocks for this? or if you can bios it to 64?
Or even if it is actually any good at all, the very small amount of reviews of it aren't to helpful in regards to any of this, and none of them compare it to a reference 56 so I'm bemused.
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People have asked about this before, IIRC no blocks yet as it uses a proprietary Nano style PCB (the same one Powercolor have been showing off with a Nano cooler recently), it won'e take a reference 64 BIOS AFAIK but "may" take a red dragon 64 BIOS.

I would assume it performs like a reference 56 just with better cooling.
 
Just bought a Red Dragon from a few days ago, came with Samsung memory :D. I can tell you none of the EK blocks will fit (at this time). The circuit board is actually really short, like an ITX board, but the heatsink is massive. Due to the board size, the power plugs are kind in the center of the overall card, which is unique. The stock cooler does a great job and at 45% the fans are very quiet, so you may not need liquid cooling. Have not done much with the bios yet, just overclocked with Afterburner and Overdrive. Can't seem to adjust the memory voltage, I believe that is locked in the bios. Thinking about trying to flash it with a Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 bios, but I'm a little hesitant since its so new, and expensive.
 
starmax said:
Just bought a Red Dragon from a few days ago, came with Samsung memory :D. I can tell you none of the EK blocks will fit (at this time). The circuit board is actually really short, like an ITX board, but the heatsink is massive. Due to the board size, the power plugs are kind in the center of the overall card, which is unique. The stock cooler does a great job and at 45% the fans are very quiet, so you may not need liquid cooling. Have not done much with the bios yet, just overclocked with Afterburner and Overdrive. Can't seem to adjust the memory voltage, I believe that is locked in the bios. Thinking about trying to flash it with a Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 bios, but I'm a little hesitant since its so new, and expensive.
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Nice, keep me posted on that, that's great that it has samsung, i was told they were all hynix. Did you change the voltage in wattman or only in afterburner?
I was look at using a kraken g10 as that would probably fit on it but they are impossible to find anymore.
 
Okay, so I tried flashing my Red Dragon Vega 56 with a PowerColor Red Devil Vega 64 bios and it basically bricked it. Luckily these cards have a dual bios setup, so I was able to flip to the other bios and re-boot. Still have not been able to re-flash the corrupted bios back to stock, but I have a working card at this point so I'm not put out much.

I'll just have to stick with the stock bios and aftermarket tools for now. I did try Wattman, but yuck... Afterburner is much easier.
 
starmax said:
Okay, so I tried flashing my Red Dragon Vega 56 with a PowerColor Red Devil Vega 64 bios and it basically bricked it. Luckily these cards have a dual bios setup, so I was able to flip to the other bios and re-boot. Still have not been able to re-flash the corrupted bios back to stock, but I have a working card at this point so I'm not put out much.

I'll just have to stick with the stock bios and aftermarket tools for now. I did try Wattman, but yuck... Afterburner is much easier.
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Have you tried booting with iGpu (in safe mode) then using DDU to wipe AMD drivers, and re-flash to original bios?
 
No iGPU, using it in a Threadripper build. I think i have an old ATI GPU I can try to boot from. I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Also played with Wattman some more tonight and am able to up the voltage on the memory now. Not sure if I was having a problem before or what exactly. Can't clock the memory over 980 Mhz without getting artifacts, regardless of the voltage, so that's a bit of a bummer. Was hoping for more when I saw it was Samsung.
 
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