The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

LoadsaMoney · 5 Nov 2017 at 19:58

Id get one if they were under £400

EsaT · 5 Nov 2017 at 21:36

AmateurExpert said:
but your claim of my very probable need to replace it much sooner than otherwise is somewhat over egging it when you don't know the temps these caps are actually subject to.

No need to know precise temperature.
Electrolytic capacitors have well researched behaviour and better capacitors last similarly longer in any temperature inside operating temperature range.
Also higher ripple current capability and lower ESR can increase endurance difference further, because of cap working at lower "load/stress level".
Besides lower rated hours those are typically clearly worser in "entry level" caps.

PSU manufacturers aren't going to put there bigger higher capacitance cap just to counter that, because price goes up heavily with size. (besides available space limits)
Just like they're not going to put extra efforts to other areas when making cheaper PSU.

docious · 5 Nov 2017 at 21:38

Dianbobo said:
Wolfenstein runs like a dream on vega, wish more games would use vulkan

Agreed, it's incredible seeing 300 fps in the corner. Maybe those 240 Hz monitors are not ridiculous after all.

TonyTurbo78 · 5 Nov 2017 at 23:34

you guys think Vega64 will power 3 1080p screens for triple screen setup in Project Cars 2? looking for 60fps, lots of eye candy. I'm doing well over 100fps maxed out at 1440p as it stands, I want to buy 3 1080p's for the triple setup and a racing rig.

TrixX · 5 Nov 2017 at 23:40

Should be ok for it. Though pCARS 2 is Nvidia favouring. Got the ***** with the CEO and their rather inane policies towards hardware support.

gupsterg · 6 Nov 2017 at 00:07

docious said:
Agreed, it's incredible seeing 300 fps in the corner. Maybe those 240 Hz monitors are not ridiculous after all.

I'm running with V-Sync, otherwise I get tearing on 144Hz screen, 1440P Mein Leben! preset. Even AA isn't slowing it down!

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AmateurExpert · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:41

TonyTurbo78 said:
you guys think Vega64 will power 3 1080p screens for triple screen setup in Project Cars 2? looking for 60fps, lots of eye candy. I'm doing well over 100fps maxed out at 1440p as it stands, I want to buy 3 1080p's for the triple setup and a racing rig.

On just those numbers it looks like you'll be fine. How good are the drivers these days for multi-monitor setups?

LtMatt · 6 Nov 2017 at 11:28

gupsterg said:
I'm running with V-Sync, otherwise I get tearing on 144Hz screen, 1440P Mein Leben! preset. Even AA isn't slowing it down! .

FYI Mein Leben does not select Uber Image Streaming, so you need to select that yourself for true maximum settings. You'll want to enable HBCC too.

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Nov 2017 at 11:43

AmateurExpert said:
On just those numbers it looks like you'll be fine. How good are the drivers these days for multi-monitor setups?

im pretty sure if you have identical res monitors, eyefinity is awesome. And Project Cars 2 has the best built in triple screen support so far I think, it's 3 properly rendered screens not just stretched like other racers.

gupsterg · 6 Nov 2017 at 13:07

AMDMatt said:
FYI Mein Leben does not select Uber Image Streaming, so you need to select that yourself for true maximum settings. You'll want to enable HBCC too.

Yes I noticed that last night, I didn't change it so I could compare with past testing. I will be tweaking it

. I'm running the beta branch, so should have Async Compute active as well.

Yesterday I did ~6 runs of SP 4K and HBCC off was ever so slightly ahead or no difference, same with 3DM FS. This echos even some of W1zzard's latest testing in COD:WWII. He is using v17.11.1 drivers as well. I'm now turning off HBCC TBH.

LtMatt · 6 Nov 2017 at 13:21

gupsterg said:
Yes I noticed that last night, I didn't change it so I could compare with past testing. I will be tweaking it . I'm running the beta branch, so should have Async Compute active as well.

Yesterday I did ~6 runs of SP 4K and HBCC off was ever so slightly ahead or no difference, same with 3DM FS. This echos even some of W1zzard's latest testing in COD:WWII. He is using v17.11.1 drivers as well. I'm now turning off HBCC TBH.

Yes test it per game is what i do. I have it off in BF1.

Once you use Uber Image Streaming, it adds performance as memory climbs well over 8GB at 4K.

old gamer · 6 Nov 2017 at 14:48

LoadsaMoney said:
Id get one if they were under £400

Only one, surely crossf oh nevermind

LoadsaMoney · 6 Nov 2017 at 17:24

old gamer said:
Only one, surely crossf oh nevermind

id need a new PSU as well anyway for that, only got an 860w

GingaNinja · 6 Nov 2017 at 17:28

HEADRAT said:
Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 Liquid Cooled (GV-RXVEGA64X W-8GD-B)

Hey Headrat - how are you getting on with your WC Vega. Thinking about making the move from Fury X also, and would like to know if you think it's worth it.

Cheers

Ginga

djbully · 6 Nov 2017 at 17:56

TonyTurbo78 said:
you guys think Vega64 will power 3 1080p screens for triple screen setup in Project Cars 2? looking for 60fps, lots of eye candy. I'm doing well over 100fps maxed out at 1440p as it stands, I want to buy 3 1080p's for the triple setup and a racing rig.

Well i've been running it with 3 1440p screens! It stays around 60FPS dipping into the 40's at times with lots of cars around, you dont really notice though with freesync running 7872x1440 is my gaming resolution at the mo.

If I could only get crossfire to work in pcars2 i'd have a go at triple 4k 11808x2160.

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Nov 2017 at 18:23

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djbully said:
Well i've been running it with 3 1440p screens! It stays around 60FPS dipping into the 40's at times with lots of cars around, you dont really notice though with freesync running 7872x1440 is my gaming resolution at the mo.

If I could only get crossfire to work in pcars2 i'd have a go at triple 4k 11808x2160.

Nice thanks for that. 3 1080p screens will be a doddle then.

LtMatt · 6 Nov 2017 at 18:26

djbully said:
Well i've been running it with 3 1440p screens! It stays around 60FPS dipping into the 40's at times with lots of cars around, you dont really notice though with freesync running 7872x1440 is my gaming resolution at the mo.

If I could only get crossfire to work in pcars2 i'd have a go at triple 4k 11808x2160.

Have you tested enabling HBCC for some extra performance?

old gamer · 6 Nov 2017 at 19:10

Still can't my head around the hbcc settings, with 16gb of ram what is the recommended hbcc setting

LtMatt · 6 Nov 2017 at 19:21

old gamer said:
Still can't my head around the hbcc settings, with 16gb of ram what is the recommended hbcc setting

There is no recommended settings. As a rule of thumb, if the game uses less than 7GB of video memory, you typically don't need to enable it. However, some games/benchmarks do benefit from enabling it even if they have modest video memory requirements, so you have to test it and see if it adds performance for x application.

old gamer · 6 Nov 2017 at 19:35

AMDMatt said:
There is no recommended settings. As a rule of thumb, if the game uses less than 7GB of video memory, you typically don't need to enable it. However, some games/benchmarks do benefit from enabling it even if they have modest video memory requirements, so you have to test it and see if it adds performance for x application.

I was hoping it was just a case of set x amount and forget it