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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Nasher said:
After seeing the disaster the 20 series has been so far, AMD would be wise to hold off trying to do ray-tracing for a generation or two. Let Nvidia make all the mistakes.

There won't be many games using it anyway, only a few AAA games (with probably only small number of those games actually being any good). Most gamers don't care about RT. They just want a GPU that can do 4k and high-res VR for sensible money.
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I hope you're right,

I just got an email from Nvidia trying to entice me to buy a 10 series gpu with a free copy of the game Monster hunter: World thrown in for the holiday season. I've not been taking notice of the gaming market for that long but the way Nvidia are handling Turing & Pascal seems a bit odd, I'm hoping it really backfires and brings them down a peg or two along with the prices they've deemed fit to charge their captive audience.

I'm really glad I grabbed a Freesync monitor when I did. Principle along makes me want to avoid Nvidia whenever possible.
 
nashathedog said:
I hope you're right,

I just got an email from Nvidia trying to entice me to buy a 10 series gpu with a free copy of the game Monster hunter: World thrown in for the holiday season. I've not been taking notice of the gaming market for that long but the way Nvidia are handling Turing & Pascal seems a bit odd, I'm hoping it really backfires and brings them down a peg or two along with the prices they've deemed fit to charge their captive audience.

I'm really glad I grabbed a Freesync monitor when I did. Principle along makes me want to avoid Nvidia whenever possible.
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LOL. The game vega beats the 1080ti?:P
 
@Gibbo what's the chances of the vega 64 strix dropping to (or close to) 449 again? if you could work your magic there's a guaranteed sale (no easyrider malarkey!!) also did asus ever clarify their position on the warranty status if the user replaced the thermal pads?
 
@TonyTurbo78 just put the watercooled reference on the system. (used Kryonaut not liquid metal).
I set to Turbo mode and had a comparison between Turbo mode on air and Turbo mode under water

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/16918502/fs/16809517#

Thoughts about Watercool Heatkiller IV block. Must say is "german made" through and through.
Very nicely build no need for retention bracket just tight the screws to the end.
I am impressed with the after running 2 runs, especially the HotSpot temp which is pretty low compared to the Nitro.

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I will run benchmarks over the weekend and try to push the card. FYI I run the Predator 360 at 50% fan speed, which is quiet.
Also the coil whine is almost gone. Barely audible over the rest of the system now, you are hard pressed to focus listen to it.

From my normal position (standing desk) can only be heard in dead silence. Something that isn't the case.

Could you send me please the settings you had and beat Kaapstad?

@LtMatt just an FYI.
 
Steampunk said:
Red Dragon Vega 56 did not like the memory settings at all (insta crash and corrupted screen), but reducing State 6 & 7 as you suggested by 70 mv did allow it to boost consistently to 1547 in the medium Superposition test @1080p. Doing the extreme version of Superposition did lower the clocks slightly to around 1530, but the speeds were pretty much maintained with +/- 10 mhz fluctuation during the tests.

I think that's pretty good for a card that's only specced to boost to 1478, but now it can do a higher boost and hold it there. Thanks for the tip, it's a pretty big difference from the default spec of 1177 mhz
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You can't push over 1000 on the HMB2 on a 56....well I couldn't. If it's Samsung HMB2 then 950 is a good spot to push it to. Past that became unstable for me.
 
Panos said:
You need to flash the Vega 64 bios to add 1.356v to the HBM to OC over 1000 on the V56
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subbytna said:
He has only just got the card. BIOS flashing may be something for the future. For now 950 is a good spot for the standard 56 BIOS.
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Exactly. I'm happy to tune up the engine, but I don't want to start boring out the cylinders! I want to get my new V56 fast and completely stable so I can play games with it. Whilst the likes of Panos have done masses of tuning/testing, and have loads of useful information to pass on to others, I do think he likes fiddling with the cards more than he likes playing games with them! :p
 
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Panos said:
You need to flash the Vega 64 bios to add 1.356v to the HBM to OC over 1000 on the V56
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My Vega64 has Sammy memory but it would artefact if I push beyond 1000MHz, so I left it on 950v and 1000MHz for now. I did tried raising the memory voltage to 1100v and 1200v but it would seem the artefact would present itself, so just wondering if I was just unlucky with the memory lottery, or do I need to increase voltage further?
 
Marine-RX179 said:
My Vega64 has Sammy memory but it would artefact if I push beyond 1000MHz, so I left it on 950v and 1000MHz for now. I did tried raising the memory voltage to 1100v and 1200v but it would seem the artefact would present itself, so just wondering if I was just unlucky with the memory lottery, or do I need to increase voltage further?
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You cannot change the HBM voltage. The power setting under the HBM ram is the "floor" setting for the whole card.
Use HWInfo and check how much power your HBM is getting truly. Should be 1.356v.
 
Managed to pick up my Morpheus II from DPD depo after school so be having some fun later trying this. No more blower fan woo-hoo.

edit: Haven't had a chance to properly test yet but so far idle temps are looking good

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