The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Sep 2017 at 13:14

Ha

Lustral said:
Just noticed that you are in my neck of the woods , when I upgrade shortly I could bring around my 4790K set up to you to increase your benchmarking scores a bit

Haha

Thanks, my next upgrade will be 8 cores at 4.5ghz going to put up with this relic until that happens.

Just an update on the Liquid Bios flash today. Card is now happily plodding along at 1750/1100....benches and gaming stable. I'm really not interested in overclocking anymore now. Always said to myself 1700/1000 on a Vega64 is my goal and I've way surpassed that now.

Loving this card.

docious · 10 Sep 2017 at 17:15

TonyTurbo78 said:
Ha

Haha

Thanks, my next upgrade will be 8 cores at 4.5ghz going to put up with this relic until that happens.

Just an update on the Liquid Bios flash today. Card is now happily plodding along at 1750/1100....benches and gaming stable. I'm really not interested in overclocking anymore now. Always said to myself 1700/1000 on a Vega64 is my goal and I've way surpassed that now.

Loving this card.

So better performance after the flash? Did you flash it with 016.001.001.000.008734 ?

JediFragger · 10 Sep 2017 at 18:45

Lustral said:
Oh really :O High concentration of OCUK members in one location ....

Makes it easy for nuking from orbit

Terminal_Boy · 10 Sep 2017 at 18:48

So, I finally swapped out my 290 for the 64 I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Starcom DVI to Display Port adapter works a treat too.

I think the cooler on the Vega is slightly quieter than the standard one on the 290 was on full load.

Now I just have to save up for a 1440p Freesync monitor.

JediFragger · 10 Sep 2017 at 18:50

Terminal_Boy said:
So, I finally swapped out my 290 for the 64 I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Starcom DVI to Display Port adapter works a treat too.

I think the cooler on the Vega is slightly quieter than the standard one on the 290 was on full load.

Now I just have to save up for a 1440p Freesync monitor.

Nice, enjoy! :cool:

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Sep 2017 at 20:50

docious said:
So better performance after the flash? Did you flash it with 016.001.001.000.008734 ?

yes better performance as the clocks remain higher, nudged it down to 1735mhz @ 1210mv now which gives me a constant between 1720mhz and 1730mhz. That's more than quick enough to maintain 100fps in most of the games I play at 1440p. No need to push to much and pop something on the board, just want to lap all this gaming now.

heartburnron · 10 Sep 2017 at 21:40

TonyTurbo78 said:
Ha

Haha

Thanks, my next upgrade will be 8 cores at 4.5ghz going to put up with this relic until that happens.

Just an update on the Liquid Bios flash today. Card is now happily plodding along at 1750/1100....benches and gaming stable. I'm really not interested in overclocking anymore now. Always said to myself 1700/1000 on a Vega64 is my goal and I've way surpassed that now.

Loving this card.

Nice one Tony. Is it consistently boosting up to 1750 when being pushed? Mind sharing your states 6 & 7 clock and voltage settings?

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Sep 2017 at 21:48

heartburnron said:
Nice one Tony. Is it consistently boosting up to 1750 when being pushed? Mind sharing your states 6 & 7 clock and voltage settings?

I had to push 1230mv to get my chip hitting the 1750mhz, while I think it's fine to do that on water, I don't think I want that much voltage going through the card when doing long gaming sessions.

So, I've knocked it down a touch now. GPUz and hwinfo64 showing at 1210mv voltage set in wattman, it's actually using around 1.175mv benching and gaming. I find the actual voltage the card uses when gaming and benching, is always around .0350mv lower than wattmans setting.

locodice · 10 Sep 2017 at 22:27

TonyTurbo78 said:
I had to push 1230mv to get my chip hitting the 1750mhz, while I think it's fine to do that on water, I don't think I want that much voltage going through the card when doing long gaming sessions.

So, I've knocked it down a touch now. GPUz and hwinfo64 showing at 1210mv voltage set in wattman, it's actually using around 1.175mv benching and gaming. I find the actual voltage the card uses when gaming and benching, is always around .0350mv lower than wattmans setting.

Offtopic, Can u link that wallpaper?

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Sep 2017 at 22:52

locodice said:
Offtopic, Can u link that wallpaper?

kundi · 10 Sep 2017 at 23:25

TonyTurbo78 said:
I had to push 1230mv to get my chip hitting the 1750mhz, while I think it's fine to do that on water, I don't think I want that much voltage going through the card when doing long gaming sessions.

So, I've knocked it down a touch now. GPUz and hwinfo64 showing at 1210mv voltage set in wattman, it's actually using around 1.175mv benching and gaming. I find the actual voltage the card uses when gaming and benching, is always around .0350mv lower than wattmans setting.

Have you tried 1727 at 1200mv? I found that to work well on my AIO when I was having issues with stock. My Air 64 card arrives tomorrow but the EK block won't be here until Friday. Hoping the Air card performs well.

NathG79 · 11 Sep 2017 at 08:35

TonyTurbo78 said:
Ha

Haha

Thanks, my next upgrade will be 8 cores at 4.5ghz going to put up with this relic until that happens.

Just an update on the Liquid Bios flash today. Card is now happily plodding along at 1750/1100....benches and gaming stable. I'm really not interested in overclocking anymore now. Always said to myself 1700/1000 on a Vega64 is my goal and I've way surpassed that now.

Loving this card.

Hi Tony.
I have the MSI AIO.
Do you think it's possible to flash it with the sapphire bios.
As far as I know it's just the Manufacturer stamp on the box, the ref cards are identical..Is this right?.

LtMatt · 11 Sep 2017 at 08:42

NathG79 said:
Hi Tony.
I have the MSI AIO.
Do you think it's possible to flash it with the sapphire bios.
As far as I know it's just the Manufacturer stamp on the box, the ref cards are identical..Is this right?.

That should be fine, but not sure why you would want to bother if you already have the AIO. The new bios only made a difference for Tony as he was using an Air 64.

NathG79 · 11 Sep 2017 at 10:39

@AMDMatt

My mistake. Keep thinking he's got the AIO aswell.

heartburnron · 11 Sep 2017 at 12:20

TonyTurbo78 said:
I had to push 1230mv to get my chip hitting the 1750mhz, while I think it's fine to do that on water, I don't think I want that much voltage going through the card when doing long gaming sessions.

So, I've knocked it down a touch now. GPUz and hwinfo64 showing at 1210mv voltage set in wattman, it's actually using around 1.175mv benching and gaming. I find the actual voltage the card uses when gaming and benching, is always around .0350mv lower than wattmans setting.

Thanks. I've been struggling to get any significant performance gains tweaking the core clock in 17.9.1 - all scores seem to be within the margin of error. I've stuck with the settings that caused the boost clock to reach the highest frequency which was 1731. The settings for that are 1702 and 1150 (state 6) and 1777 and 1200 (state 7). Have you seen you're clock actually hit 1750?

TonyTurbo78 · 11 Sep 2017 at 12:25

NathG79 said:
Hi Tony.
I have the MSI AIO.
Do you think it's possible to flash it with the sapphire bios.
As far as I know it's just the Manufacturer stamp on the box, the ref cards are identical..Is this right?.

What Matt said

heartburnron said:
Thanks. I've been struggling to get any significant performance gains tweaking the core clock in 17.9.1 - all scores seem to be within the margin of error. I've stuck with the settings that caused the boost clock to reach the highest frequency which was 1731. The settings for that are 1702 and 1150 (state 6) and 1777 and 1200 (state 7). Have you seen you're clock actually hit 1750?

Yes it hits 1750 briefly when benching, flutters around the 1745mhz mark but games not so much. I found in games I average around 1725mhz to 1735mhz but at 1230mv which I dont want to put through the card to often. This is why I now dropped the clock to 1735mhz with less voltage, I get exactly the same clock range (1725mhz to 1735mhz) I think that might be the limit to be honest unless I whack 1250mv and got higher. Looking at databases around and forums, very few seem to be able to hit the high clocks regularly. I think Matt probably has some of the best results around here. There seems to be a bunch of people on forums even struggling to hit 1700mhz on the AIO versions.

LtMatt · 11 Sep 2017 at 12:54

I recommend alt tabbing in and out of a game to test what achieves the highest clocks. You will mostly need to focus on State 7 if you have +50% power limit enabled. Typically you will find that the highest voltage will give the highest clock speed possible clock speed, then you just increase frequency until you hit instability.

TonyTurbo78 · 11 Sep 2017 at 13:02

You still rocking 1230mv at state 7 Matt?

Astennu · 11 Sep 2017 at 13:13

Astennu said:
I also posted this in the Vega 56 Owners thead but i hope you guy's are willing to help aswell

I had to make a new account my old one was gone.
I have bin following the overclockers forums for quite some time but im not a active poster more a reader

Im doing a lot of Vega testing because its fun and i want to learn more about the cards. I just made a online sheet where i post my data.
Maybe there are people over here that also want to add their data.

The tests are done with Unigine SuperPosition 1080p Extreme and 1440p for now.
I use data from wattman and GPU-Z to get some extra info on actual clockspeeds, voltages and power draw.

I only added a few results so far the rest is still on my pc. I hope to add them this weekend.
I'm currently testing 3 Vega 56 cards and 2 64's. And have tested 2x64 before that.

I hope some of you want to share your results so get a better picture how Vega performs with different voltages.

Here is the link to the google sheet: RX Vega UV/OC Results - Unigine SuperPosition

I want to kick the following message. Thanks for the people who added results. I hope some more want to share their results.

LtMatt · 11 Sep 2017 at 13:25

TonyTurbo78 said:
You still rocking 1230mv at state 7 Matt?

No i went back to 1250 as i got some crashes in Sleeping Dogs, though it was stable in most other games.

Lowering HBM a little can help give a higher core clock it seems, but it really varies from bench to bench and game to game which offers most performance vs higher clock speeds.