The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2018 at 19:25

I have my Vega 64 set to 1602 at 1000MV and I've always considered it underclocked, obviously I outperform an out of the box reference Vega 64, but that's entirely down to the abysmal default settings.

Schnippzle · 23 Apr 2018 at 19:31

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Woooooow, I bought this for £679.99 on the 31st of March. Should have waited.

shankly1985 · 23 Apr 2018 at 19:38

henson0115 said:
martini is correct, however it appears to be temp based. noticed this quite a bit actually. note my chips has no problem running 1700 on air without any issue at around 70 degrees when overclocked.
https://imgur.com/a/T82zLLM

No he isn't read the convo..

You have two VEGA 64 GPUs the only change between the two is how they are cooled the rest of the GPU remains the same. On air P6 is the cards stock clock sure it will boost into P7 if the temperature is right but for normal use 1546 is the norm. Liquid VEGA will 100% always be at P7 state that is this GPUs stock clock!

Air Cooled = 1546 - Stock! with the ability to boost higher given the correct voltage.

Liquid = 1677 - Stock but mostly likely to boost higher because how its cooled.

Even AMD states this lol are the makers of these wrong?
Boost Frequency 1546 / 1677(liquid)

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2018 at 19:48

shankly1985 said:
No he isn't read the convo..

You have two VEGA 64 GPUs the only change between the two is how they are cooled the rest of the GPU remains the same. On air P6 is the cards stock clock sure it will boost into P7 if the temperature is right but for normal use 1546 is the norm. Liquid VEGA will 100% always be at P7 state that is this GPUs stock clock!

Air Cooled = 1546 - Stock! with the ability to boost higher given the correct voltage.

Liquid = 1677 - Stock but mostly likely to boost higher because how its cooled.

Even AMD states this lol are the makers of these wrong?
Boost Frequency 1546 / 1677(liquid)

If they're exactly the same but the only difference is how they're cooled then it doesn't really constitute a rebuttal. You've literally just said that the air cooled Vega 64 is set the same as the liquid, the only reason it can't maintain clocks is cooling.

AMD certainly list the P6 as the stock boost, but factually it's set to 1632 on the air cooler (Which you've also said. Which is basically my whole point)

henson0115 · 23 Apr 2018 at 20:14

Martini1991 said:
If they're exactly the same but the only difference is how they're cooled then it doesn't really constitute a rebuttal. You've literally just said that the air cooled Vega 64 is set the same as the liquid, the only reason it can't maintain clocks is cooling.

AMD certainly list the P6 as the stock boost, but factually it's set to 1632 on the air cooler (Which you've also said. Which is basically my whole point)

spot on.

henson0115 · 23 Apr 2018 at 20:19

shankly1985 said:
No he isn't read the convo..

You have two VEGA 64 GPUs the only change between the two is how they are cooled the rest of the GPU remains the same. On air P6 is the cards stock clock sure it will boost into P7 if the temperature is right but for normal use 1546 is the norm. Liquid VEGA will 100% always be at P7 state that is this GPUs stock clock!

Air Cooled = 1546 - Stock! with the ability to boost higher given the correct voltage.

Liquid = 1677 - Stock but mostly likely to boost higher because how its cooled.

Even AMD states this lol are the makers of these wrong?
Boost Frequency 1546 / 1677(liquid)

if it helps mine is a 56

LoadsaMoney · 23 Apr 2018 at 20:20

Schnippzle said:
Woooooow, I bought this for £679.99 on the 31st of March. Should have waited.

They're still over £100+ too expensive, as the faster 1080s are only £499.

Schnippzle · 24 Apr 2018 at 07:56

LoadsaMoney said:
They're still over £100+ too expensive, as the faster 1080s are only £499.

Wait a little while longer and it almost sounds like a multiple-GPU solution is on the cards

Illuminist · 24 Apr 2018 at 09:02

Well guys I'm back, and I now have a vega 64 ref to replace my burnt 56 .
Big shout out to Vince from the forum here for joining me on my quest to London to go and get it (absolutely awesome guy) turns out the guys place I went to he had 17 vega mining together and a stack of 13 ish more vega's in his bedroom and was a really really nice guy.(shame he got banned for coming on here to help me)

I will resist the urge to fiddle with this one.

l0z · 24 Apr 2018 at 10:25

LoadsaMoney said:
They're still over £100+ too expensive, as the faster 1080s are only £499.

Not faster in terms of compute power. Fast FP16 means that Vega 64 is a significantly better card than the 1080 for certain tasks like rendering.

Illuminist · 24 Apr 2018 at 10:27

l0z said:
Not faster in terms of compute power. Fast FP16 means that Vega 64 is a significantly better card than the 1080 for certain tasks like rendering.

The vega is just better full stop, it has character, you can fiddle with it and its faster than a 1080 when configured correctly.

LtMatt · 24 Apr 2018 at 10:37

Illuminist said:
Well guys I'm back, and I now have a vega 64 ref to replace my burnt 56 .
Big shout out to Vince from the forum here for joining me on my quest to London to go and get it (absolutely awesome guy) turns out the guys place I went to he had 17 vega mining together and a stack of 13 ish more vega's in his bedroom and was a really really nice guy.(shame he got banned for coming on here to help me)

I will resist the urge to fiddle with this one.

That's cool, glad you got one.

ubersonic · 24 Apr 2018 at 10:50

Schnippzle said:
Wait a little while longer and it almost sounds like a multiple-GPU solution is on the cards

My Vega crossfire kept me warm over winter XD

melmac · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:24

LoadsaMoney said:
My liquids doing around 1696 in ROTTR, with it capped at 60, and in GTA V, over 1700, with a 70 cap.

That sounds about right, You are reducing the work the card is doing, so it boosts a little higher than the Stock settings.

Vince · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:35

Illuminist said:
Well guys I'm back, and I now have a vega 64 ref to replace my burnt 56 .
Big shout out to Vince from the forum here for joining me on my quest to London to go and get it (absolutely awesome guy) turns out the guys place I went to he had 17 vega mining together and a stack of 13 ish more vega's in his bedroom and was a really really nice guy.(shame he got banned for coming on here to help me)

I will resist the urge to fiddle with this one.

Good to properly meet you mate! My head is still burnt from driving around London

melmac · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:44

henson0115 said:
martini is correct, however it appears to be temp based. noticed this quite a bit actually. note my chips has no problem running 1700 on air without any issue at around 70 degrees when overclocked.
https://imgur.com/a/T82zLLM

Except he isn't correct. He is talking about settings in custom mode, as are you. Put the original bios on and the stock cooler and run your Vega card with one of the 3 default options. The boost might start off high, but then it will average out to around the stock settings. The same happens with Nvidia's cards. The boost starts off really high before settling down. It's not a static figure though, it might boost a little higher at times because the card isn't doing as much work. The boost isn't just temp based, it's power based too. Actually there is a lot going on behind the scenes to work out the boost figure.

melmac · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:52

Martini1991 said:
I have my Vega 64 set to 1602 at 1000MV and I've always considered it underclocked, obviously I outperform an out of the box reference Vega 64, but that's entirely down to the abysmal default settings.

All I have to do is point out the AIB cards. They are all overclocked Vega 64 cards with better cooling solutions. Here is an example

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

1560 boost clock. Why is it an overclock? because the reference boost clock is 1546. Not 1632.

Schnippzle · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:53

ubersonic said:
My Vega crossfire kept me warm over winter XD

How are you finding Vega mGPU support at the moment?

melmac · 24 Apr 2018 at 11:55

Illuminist said:
Well guys I'm back, and I now have a vega 64 ref to replace my burnt 56 .
Big shout out to Vince from the forum here for joining me on my quest to London to go and get it (absolutely awesome guy) turns out the guys place I went to he had 17 vega mining together and a stack of 13 ish more vega's in his bedroom and was a really really nice guy.(shame he got banned for coming on here to help me)

I will resist the urge to fiddle with this one.

Great that you got sorted so quick and that you got a trip around London too

Good idea!! Try to make this one last a little longer!!

Vince said:
Good to properly meet you mate! My head is still burnt from driving around London

That was very nice of you. Lots of good Karma heading your way, I hope

Illuminist · 24 Apr 2018 at 12:01

AMDMatt said:
That's cool, glad you got one.

Vince said:
Good to properly meet you mate! My head is still burnt from driving around London

melmac said:
Great that you got sorted so quick and that you got a trip around London too

Good idea!! Try to make this one last a little longer!!

That was very nice of you. Lots of good Karma heading your way, I hope

Vince is a truly great guy, I owe him big time, fantastic to meet you too buddy (applies sun cream to forehead)
@AMDwattmatt Yes I was very lucky indeed