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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

It seems that people are using custom setting to lower power draw and improve performance with their Vega 64s. I'd imagine this is fairly common knowledge on these forums, especially this thread.
What settings are people using for their Vega 64 LC cards?
ICDP did a nice thread: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...king-undervolting-information-guide.18793012/
but that seems to be for the air cooled version.

A few posts back AMDMatt/WattMatt posted some settings but they seemed to mostly increase my power draw while only slightly improving my clock speeds. Does anyone have the Vega 64 LC running at similar/better performance (compared to stock) with reduced power draw?

Thanks.


I've been tinkering with my Vega 10 XTX (Ref AIO) for quite some time now. I have some things to share.

Here are some Superposition 4k Opt. scores to set a base line (All scores except Balanced use 1180 MHz HBM @ 950 mV and +50% PL )

Vega 64 LC "Balanced Mode" - ~6330

(P6- 1667 MHz @ 1050 mV / P7- 1712 MHz @ 1100 mV) My Vega 64 Undervolt - ~ 7100

My Vega 64 (ALL OUT) - ~ 7170-7210 (This was tested pre- Adrenalin , so I will discount this one).

That's about a 12% increase from Balanced Mode.

I've noticed that there are basically two ways of going about getting more clocks.

1) Find a desirable voltage range and find your stable clocks ( for me 1710 MHz p7 was the best I could get around 1050 mV).

2) EITHER increase voltage from that point (resulting in more Sclk) OR Increase both core and voltage to get higher p7 clocks to be stable

3) Increasing HBM eats up some core clock (for me atleast), I lost about 30-40 Mhz on the core going from 1000 to 1180 MHz

4) While you might be stable at 1800 MHz p7 @ 1000 mV, from my card and experience, the frequencies will be much lower than if you set p7 1800 Mhz @ 1.15V , that's a balancing act, what can you bear more? Better clocks? or Lower thermals/powerdraw i.e a better experience.

5) From what I remember, Turbo Mode was 2% better scores than Balanced mode for about a 70W more power draw.


Currently I'm stable and happy around My Undervolt ^ which gives me about 1680 MHz in-game like Assassin's Creed Origins and takes up about 210W ( That would be 260-270W in other titles). For some reason either AC:O is SCARY efficient or Vega runs this game way too efficiently.

A TLDR Conclusion I've come to personally like many other users - Going from my undervolt to my 'ALL OUT' mode will barely give me 1 fps (if not less) while consuming about 70-90W more (Because I'd need to push Voltage from 1.08-1.1V to 1.2V to go from 1710 to 1752 MHz @ p7).

I will update as I find more things.
 
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That's nuts. What's driving the high price? Are they particularly good at mining specific coinage?

They're excellent at mining Cryptonight-based coins such as Monero, especially with the beta blockchain drivers. They're OK at mining Ethash (e.g. Ethereum) too but I believe the miners prefer the green cards for that. Several months ago, AMD's official stance was to disregard cryptomining as a short-term thing (in contrast to Nvidia's embrace of it); I wonder whether their stance has changed.
 
They're excellent at mining Cryptonight-based coins such as Monero, especially with the beta blockchain drivers. They're OK at mining Ethash (e.g. Ethereum) too but I believe the miners prefer the green cards for that. Several months ago, AMD's official stance was to disregard cryptomining as a short-term thing (in contrast to Nvidia's embrace of it); I wonder whether their stance has changed.

emails from AMD to clients updating them on changes to drivers for mining leads to believe they value that market HIGHLY!

next update will be GPU+ CPU usage ... guessing this will play well for VEGA APU. most people buy a cheap CPU which does nothing, way not spend extra £50 on a CPU that doesn't sit idle but can work its GPU off...
 
Gigabytes Vega cards are now in stock for £830.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-19n-gi.html

I'm looking forward to seeing how they perform in a PC case.

I'm expecting that they'll be like my MSI 290x Gaming was, HOT!

That seemed to be built using bit's from the Nvidia parts bin as you couldn't tell which was which from the cooler and heatsink between that and my 4gb MSI GTX 770 gaming card.
 
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spend extra £50 on a CPU that doesn't sit idle but can work its GPU off...

There are at least a few coins that can be mined with reasonable efficiency and speed on recent CPUs anyway, so might not be much of a selling point!

£610 over what I paid for my 64 LTD :eek:

Forget mining - just buy Vega cards and wait for them to appreciate like gold!
 
Yeah, that Giga card doesn't look like a particularly good cooling implementation...

I don't think Gigabytes done a decent AMD card since we moved to 14nm. This colour design of black with an orange stripe seems to be Gigabytes budget version, The black and orange 480 got slammed in reviews, the black and orange 560 I had was a poor card and now they decide to not do an Auros Vega and instead give us another black and orange card.
 
Ridiculous, how is an honest miner supposed to get going.

I did order 4 LC versions from somewhere else but seems they have been discontinued or they just cant get them.

Yeah AMD don't do the reference cards anymore, so all you'll be able to buy now, are these extremely high priced custom cards.

I can't believe even the custom 56s are more than i paid for my Liquid Cooled 64 :eek:, only paid £599 for that in the Black Friday sale.
 
The cost of these cards is shocking, i got my 56 for £380 on release and at that price it is a fantastic card.
Now.... the price is awful, its also affecting Nvidia cards as well now.

Wish i hadnt broke it :p:p
 
Wow! Vega 56 and 64 have nearly doubled in price! The mining craze is back!

If I was short for cash i put mine on the bay. I've had my Vega 64 since release and haven't used it much for gaming.
 
Yeah AMD don't do the reference cards anymore, so all you'll be able to buy now, are these extremely high priced custom cards.

I can't believe even the custom 56s are more than i paid for my Liquid Cooled 64 :eek:, only paid £599 for that in the Black Friday sale.


My source at AMD says they are still making the reference liquid cooled cards as well as the air cards. However, supply is tight as they are switching to 12nm. Expect a possible announcement of sorts at CES is all he would go on to tell me.

I am just glad I got my RX Vega Liquid card when I did. Cause holy crap... I could literally sell mine for $1000 and make $450ish profit after shipping. lol.
 
The prices of the V64 cards is insanely stupid, For £100+ less you can get a 1080 Ti with aftermarket cooler which leaves V64 in the dust in general performance by quite a long shot, Power consumption and heat, What the hell are AMD thinking ? This is self sabotage.
 
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