The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Cancel original question.

So, I've settled on a clock now, done my benches higher to test stability and now dialled back down to 1650/1050 for 24/7 gaming. Just been playing Ghost Recon Wildlands mix of Very high and Ultra with SMAA, got a 72fps cap on and game is sticking to that cap like glue. Maybe the odd occasion it drop to 60fps but man its so damn good and smooth.

I think this card is bloody brilliant in all honesty, no idea what all the hate is for.

I don't think the hate is really around the performance, I think it's more about the power efficiency (which other than temps, doesn't bother me that much), the current pricing and the fact you could get this same level of performance ~16 months ago. I think there'd be an equal amount of 'hate' if in 16 months Nvidia's top-end card performed at Vega 64 levels, cost more and ran hotter.

To a degree I think it's as much disappointment as it is hate. Lots of people wanted to upgrade their 290X/390X/Fury cards but AMD didn't release anything, so the people ended up getting a 1080 with the hope that AMD would eventually deliver something better that they could switch to, but they're finding it hard to justify the cost of switching for so little gain. This is sort of the situation I was in because I own a Fresync monitor I'm happy with. I still hope to get a Vega 64 at some point though.

 

[LtMatt]

Doom gameplay at 3440x1440 Nightmare.

 

[Brazo]

I think this card is bloody brilliant in all honesty, no idea what all the hate is for.

I think Googaly Moogaly sums it up well in that it's more disappointment than hate. Taking your own example of ghost recon. Whilst in isolation Vega may perform very well but the elephant in the room is back in Feb you 'could' have had better performance in this game for a fair chunk less money by buying a 1080. That is disappointing!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/review/1476-amd-radeon-vega-64/page4.html

 

[docious]

Does anyone else get a freeze of 2-3 seconds (not crash type freeze, just temporary lock up) every single time a Flash or HTML5 video initially loads in (doesn't happen after the player initially loading?

Yes! It was doing my head in but then I tried turning off hardware acceleration in Chrome (about 5 minutes ago) and it hasn't happened since. Driver issue I guess.

Edit: Oh, already solved above. Thought I was being heroic and everything.

 

[Nemesis.ie]

As an aside, what are the criteria to be able to edit on'es own posts? 100+ posts or something? It's a tad frustrating to post late at night and notice a typo and not be able to fix it.

On topic (kind of) I hope some stock appears this week and my back order gets filled.

 

[Kaapstad]

Added to the OP

AMDMatt gaming on Vega64.

Doom - 3440x1440P Nightmare Quality

Resident Evil 7 - 2160P Very High Quality

F1 2016 @ 3440x1440

Battlefield 1 - 2160P Ultra

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[Mauller]

Someone over on reddit managed to Glitch out their Xcom2 revealing something interesting. Something that does not show in the tool used to reveal tiled rendering.

So it shows that Xcom2 at least may have DSBR active.

 

[iihavetoes]

As an aside, what are the criteria to be able to edit on'es own posts? 100+ posts or something? It's a tad frustrating to post late at night and notice a typo and not be able to fix it.

On topic (kind of) I hope some stock appears this week and my back order gets filled.

I just joined and I was able to edit my post. I think...

 

[iihavetoes]

So I've since went back to 17.8.2. Had some stutters ever 2-3 seconds on those drivers and was able to solve it by disabling Windows Game Mode. Fast forward hours later, I turn on an OC for my 1700x ([email protected]) and now I have the stutters again. Is the OC the cause of this?

 

[nashathedog]

Ppl just love bashing stuff, its easy isn't it to fit in with the bashing crowd Jedi lmao. Couldnt be happier with it, at £449, think it's bloody brilliant performance and now with it under water, heat and fan noise zero problem.

here's my GPUz anyway. No Samsung here.

It's not about bashing things if there is a real issue, You're lucky enough to have gotten an air cooled model which has a C1 revision chip package, I'm wondering if part of the delay was because AMD couldn't get the C0 chips stable in the Air cooled model and had to fab a newer version with the issue fixed, Which is why we have the two different revisions on launch with the earlier revision having a really high failure rate. I remember a member here posting such a possibility ages ago, I'm not sure who it was but it seems he may of been closer to the truth than any of us guessed.

 

[Mauller]

So I've since went back to 17.8.2. Had some stutters ever 2-3 seconds on those drivers and was able to solve it by disabling Windows Game Mode. Fast forward hours later, I turn on an OC for my 1700x ([email protected]) and now I have the stutters again. Is the OC the cause of this?

Some people are having the odd stutter issue when using monitoring software. Make sure things like HWmonitor, aida, Wattman, Afterburner etc are closed and check.

 

[nashathedog]

As an aside, what are the criteria to be able to edit on'es own posts? 100+ posts or something? It's a tad frustrating to post late at night and notice a typo and not be able to fix it.

On topic (kind of) I hope some stock appears this week and my back order gets filled.

I wish I still had my order but I cancelled it and bought a card that was in stock the next day.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Relive playback doesn't seem as smooth as live gameplay to me, or is it just me

 

[LtMatt]

Relive playback doesn't seem as smooth as live gameplay to me, or is it just me

Plays smooth here when watching, but the video bit rate looks low which means the quality is poor.

 

[iihavetoes]

Some people are having the odd stutter issue when using monitoring software. Make sure things like HWmonitor, aida, Wattman, Afterburner etc are closed and check.

Wow yeah that was it. Is this documented somewhere? I'm still using Wattman power settings, though closing the program (the monitoring is the issue, I suppose) along with HWinfo worked. Do the monitoring programs need to be closed completely or just not in foreground?

 

[iihavetoes]

Since my setup is more stable now, I did some benchmarks with 1700x ([email protected]) and RX Vega 64 AIO. My GPU was at stock freq/voltage, which I would expect to be [email protected] (?). HBM was at [email protected]. Power limit +50% through Wattman.

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/13469984

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/2288639

 

[gupsterg]

Come to the aid of your fellow/prospective VEGA owners, join W1zzard for GPU-Z VEGA Beta testing .

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/vega-beta-testers-needed.236537/

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Plays smooth here when watching, but the video bit rate looks low which means the quality is poor.

Recorded at 1080p 20mb bitrate. What would u recommend?

 

[LtMatt]

Recorded at 1080p 20mb bitrate. What would u recommend?

25-35Mbps for better quality, file size will be a bit bigger though.

 

[kundi]

Doom gameplay at 3440x1440 Nightmare.

Clearly that card is Liquid Cooled. What settings/drivers are you running? Several of us are having constant crashes(especially with 17.8.2) with our 64 AIO cards while gaming on anything above balanced mode while using good PSUs(mine is a Seasonic 1000w Prime Platinum).

My GPU was at stock freq/voltage, which I would expect to be [email protected] (?). HBM was at [email protected]. Power limit +50% through Wattman.

How do you know your HBM is 1050mv? Wattman and other tools show 950mv for my AIO 64.