AMD RX Vega 64/56 Review Thread

badsykes said:
Anyway the biggest dilema is how i silence the fan durring gaming.This is a jet engine...
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With V56 bios vCore to 1050mV. This was my sweet spot where perf was highest and power consumption was lowest. I could go even lower but performance started to decline. With V64 bios can't go that low unless downclocking.
 
badsykes said:
In idle the card is impressively quiet..THe quietest reference i have owned.On the other hand in games is jet engine.The HD6950 is quieter in load than V56.
I was an Iron Maiden fan too .... Anyway i listened in the past to hammerfall, battle beast, gamma ray as heavy metal rock bands ...
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badsykes if you read the guru3d strix review it puts the Vega 56/64 at about 45db which is half the db of a jet engine :lol: As Demo said if your case is open of course it will be noisier so maybe you need to get a new case. Also I've never gamed using headphones as I've had 5.1 surround sound for years and it's great. Plus my PC is on my desktop and I've just measured it and it's 38 cms from my right ear and the blower fan isn't a distraction at all. I accept that noise is a relative thing and we're all different but for me it's not an issue.
 
bill dennison said:
well with the fog in Manchester and England in general your water cooled anyway :bleh:
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I live at the top of a Valley and technically we don't get fog what we get is called low cloud as fog only collects in low lying areas as the cold air sinks. So I can look out of my bedroom window and see the fog in the lower part of the valley whilst I'm experiencing a nice cloudless sky.

Mind you being at the top of the valley we do get more rain and especially snow. I can have 4 to 5 inches of snow whilst lower down they only have a smattering. That's why I have winter tyres fitted or else I wouldn't get off the drive :lol:
 
I would've purchased one of these turds if not for the fact I can't find one that isn't notably more expensive than almost ever 1080 on NewEgg.

Also, reference cooling FTL.
 
Hapatingjaky said:
Review was taken down due to bad bios.
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It's presumed to be a bios issue but I don't think it's been confirmed. Asus asked for the review to be taken down which makes me a little suspicious TBH. It was stated as a full retail card not a prototype so I bet Asus are frantically testing other Rogs to cherry pick the next sample they send them. I'd be more minded to trust the first review as that was how the card came out of the box. I've said all along that I didn't think the AIBs could do much more with Vega and that would now seem to be right. It's not like Asus hasn't pulled a stunt like this before is it?
 
Mangler said:
What was the issue with the strix/review, did the card have a bad fan curve or something?
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"Yesterday we published the ASUS Radeon RX 64 STRIX review. As shown, it performs awfully similar towards the reference Radeon RX 64. This morning I received a phone call from ASUS, asking us if we’d be willing to take down the article for a few days as they have made a mistake.

The sample we received did not get a final BIOS for its final clock frequencies and fan tweaking. Ergo, the sample we received carries a default reference BIOS.

It’s a colossal mistake, but as such the end-results in the review are not representative enough for the final product. ASUS will get the finalized BIOS over once they have finished (likely a day or two) after which we will re-test the card with that final BIOS and thus republish the review. All this explains why the STRIX card was so incredibly close to Vega 64 performance.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but this mistake was not one coming from us."
 
Higgy10 said:
"Yesterday we published the ASUS Radeon RX 64 STRIX review. As shown, it performs awfully similar towards the reference Radeon RX 64. This morning I received a phone call from ASUS, asking us if we’d be willing to take down the article for a few days as they have made a mistake.

The sample we received did not get a final BIOS for its final clock frequencies and fan tweaking. Ergo, the sample we received carries a default reference BIOS.

It’s a colossal mistake, but as such the end-results in the review are not representative enough for the final product. ASUS will get the finalized BIOS over once they have finished (likely a day or two) after which we will re-test the card with that final BIOS and thus republish the review. All this explains why the STRIX card was so incredibly close to Vega 64 performance.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but this mistake was not one coming from us."
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Could this mean that reference cards can benefit from the same non reference bios tweaks? If there are any tweaks...

seriously, why would they send a card to be reviewed, then say oops, wrong bios, and then say they will send over the correct bios When it's ready . Which means it wasn't ready when they sent the card, or it was the correct bios, and they realize that it performs identical, which means they have to tweak the bios more to try and beat the reference design. I wouldn't be so skeptical if they already had the bios in hand immediately to re flash, but having to wait a few days... puts an unsettling feeling over the whole situation.
 
NWR_Midnight said:
Could this mean that reference cards can benefit from the same non reference bios tweaks? If there are any tweaks...

seriously, why would they send a card to be reviewed, then say oops, wrong bios, and then say they will send over the correct bios When it's ready . Which means it wasn't ready when they sent the card, or it was the correct bios, and they realize that it performs identical, which means they have to tweak the bios more to try and beat the reference design. I wouldn't be so skeptical if they already had the bios in hand immediately to re flash, but having to wait a few days... puts an unsettling feeling over the whole situation.
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or the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing

and someone sent the card out for review too early
 
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