The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

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@AMDMatt let me tell you a story. This week I've been playing Mass Effect Andromeda all good very happy. Last night I played it and performance was terrible, stuttering and when it loaded a level the the game would freeze at 100% for about 3 minutes and then carry on. Very odd. So to cut a long story short involving checking bios settings and updating graphics drivers and checking MSI afterburner verifying the game files, it turned out that not only was my power profile on balanced. The AMD profile was completely missing. Something and I have no idea what, removed it. I downloaded the latest x370 chipset driver and hay presto back to normal. I would not have thought the power profiles could make such a difference but they really do. Just in case you were wondering i've got a ryzen 1700 tickled to 3.925Mhz and a vega 64. I wonder how many others are in this pickle and don't know why its happening.

 

[gupsterg]

Built my full loop this past weekend with my 64 Air card. I haven't done much tweaking since I've been busy this week, but I flashed the LC bios. The card would crash at stock LC bios clocks so I dropped p7 down to 1702 with stock voltages until I have time to work out the best settings. The card already outperforms my LC card at stock settings with the 17.9.1 driver. Also worth noting, I have no difference in performance between 17.9.2 and the previous driver at the current settings.

LC 64 - +50% Power Limit - Stock core - HBM 1100:

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Air 64 w/LC Bios - +50% Power limit - p7 at 1702 - HBM 1100:

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17.9.2:

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Nice .

This is MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk EK X, 0 tweaks, stock VBIOS/driver setup, 'plug and play' run IMO.

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Card boosts to ~196x flat line in benches I did, due to how nVidia Boost 3.0 is working. Haven't bothered to OC yet or learn about it TBH. Impressed by performance and 0 driver issues encountered so far.

May still jump on VEGA but seems unlikely.

A redditer has mentioned that vega throttling is based on hot-spot temperature not GPU temperature. Can anyone corroborate this?

There are various temp limits that will create throttling, hotspot is one. Posted here on OCuk within this thread and you'll also find them within this thread on OCN.

 

[Cyberdyne Systems]

Add me to the roll. Vega 64 LC. P6 1687@1125mv P7 1737@1175mv HBM2 1100mhz gives me around 1700mhz constant in games and a score of 7077 in Superposition and 8200 in Timespy with an 1800X at [email protected] and 16GB 3200mhz RAM

 

[Cyberdyne Systems]

How do I post an image?

 

[Freddie1980]

How do I post an image?

Upload to imgur and it should give you the code to copy and paste. Or you could just copy the url and insert it and write the code manually i.e (IMG)www.imgur.com/jhdi3877/test1.jpg(/IMG) just replace ( ) with [ ]

 

[Cyberdyne Systems]

Upload to imgur and it should give you the code to copy and paste. Or you could just copy the url and insert it and write the code manually i.e (IMG)www.imgur.com/jhdi3877/test1.jpg(/IMG) just replace ( ) with [ ]

It's not working when I copy the link it says

 

[Cyberdyne Systems]

(IMG)https://m.imgur.com/a/nQzA2

 

[chaosophy]

(IMG)https://m.imgur.com/a/nQzA2

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[AmateurExpert]

That'a my only real gripe with Vega, The insane power draw, I could understand if it was faster than a 1080 Ti but it's only just about as fast as a 1080 and a 1070 in some instances, With the settings cranked in wattman and an 1800X at stock, I've seen the system easily pull over 650 watts which was a little scary considering I had it in a system with a 650 watt PSU, It actually tripped it and shut the system down, That's insane and not in a good way, Swapped the PSU out for a 1000 watt since though.

I have a very similar system (though a 1700 overclocked to 3.9GHz @1.39V rather than 1800X, with 32GB RAM overclocked to DDR4-3066 @1.4V) with a Vega64 AC with an EK waterblock with +50% power limit and overclocked to 1734MHz. The absolute maximum it has drawn from the wall is 571W during Time Spy and I've two 7200rpm HDDs, two SSDs, a 20W DDC pump and 7 fans running. I have a 80 Plus Silver Be Quiet 600W PSU, so power efficiency isn't special. I'd have to push my CPU voltage much higher than I'm comfortable with in order to get my power draw to be anywhere like 650W (not that I would with this PSU)!

 

[AmateurExpert]

Add me to the roll. Vega 64 LC. P6 1687@1125mv P7 1737@1175mv HBM2 1100mhz gives me around 1700mhz constant in games and a score of 7077 in Superposition and 8200 in Timespy with an 1800X at [email protected] and 16GB 3200mhz RAM

Nice. FWIW my results are similar; I have an air Vega64 in a full custom loop with an R7 @3.9 and 3066 DDR4. My highest stable Vega overclock (stock BIOS, +50%PL) is P6 at 1632@1080, P7 at 1737@1200 and HBM at 1095; this gives me a steady 1734MHz core when benching (still on 17.8.2 drivers though, haven't yet upgraded). I get 6702-6761 in SP, and 8219-8272 total in Time Spy (8125-8190 graphics score). You may be able to eke out a little more by nudging up your P7 voltage.

 

[AmateurExpert]

heres something interesting on the new driver. It would seem that any more than 1200mv and my PC locks up whenever I start any 3d application. I can even drop my clocks right down to under 1700mhz and it'll still lock up. Once I drop under 1200mv, complete stability again. Back on the .9.1 driver and I can run 1800mhz and 1230mv again just fine.

After finally getting a replacement for my faulty AX370 Gaming 5 motherboard, I got back into finishing my CPU & RAM overclocks.

I'm still on 17.8.2; took a look at the release notes for 17.9.1 and .2 and none of the changes seemed to be relevant to me. My Vega64 maxes out at 1734MHz on 1200mV; I can't give it more as I'm on stock 64 BIOS. Not sure if it's worth me upgrading to newer drivers yet, especially as I've just gotten everything working well.

 

[Kaapstad]

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Welcome and on TROH.



The Roll of Honour.

Date 24/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, chaosophy, Link
Date 13/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Dicehunter, Link
Date 12/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, Kaapstad, Link
Date 06/09/2017, Make Reference Air, naLor, Link
Date 06/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, tres_kun, Link
Date 06/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, Biffa, Link
Date 05/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Lustral, Link
Date 05/09/2017, Make Reference Air, Synchrouk, Link
Date 02/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, Tinek, Link
Date 02/09/2017, Make Reference Air, AmateurExpert, Link
Date 01/09/2017, Make Reference AIO, Nemesis.ie, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Boomstick777, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Paul Campbell, Link
Date 31/08/2017, Make Reference Air, shankly1985, Link
Date 30/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, Chewie, Link
Date 30/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Shiari, Link
Date 30/08/2017, Make Reference Air, chaosophy, Link
Date 29/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, BadIronTree, Link
Date 28/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Neutral, Link
Date 26/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, iihavetoes, Link
Date 25/08/2017, Make Reference Air, disi, Link
Date 25/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, djbully, Link
Date 24/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Bonjour, Link
Date 24/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Kmodo, Link
Date 23/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, Dave2150, Link
Date 23/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Roughneck, Link
Date 21/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, diziet, Link
Date 19/08/2017, Make Reference Air, CapitalOne, Link
Date 18/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, NathG79, Link
Date 18/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Chrisc, Link
Date 17/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, DazQ87, Link
Date 17/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Smudge, Link
Date 17/08/2017, Make Reference Air, ChosenName, Link
Date 17/08/2017, Make Reference Air, mattyc123, Link
Date 16/08/2017, Make Reference Air, WhistleBlower07, Link
Date 16/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, nashathedog, Link
Date 16/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, heartburnron, Link
Date 16/08/2017, Make Reference Air, vanpeebles, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Morve, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Howling, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference Air, Apache14, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, Dianbobo, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference Air, ubersonic, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, AMDMatt, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference Air, TonyTurbo78, Link
Date 15/08/2017, Make Reference AIO, MDPlatts, Link


To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Vega 64.
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[chaosophy]

Welcome and on TROH.

I'm already on there.

Was just fixing the image link 'Cyberdyne Systems' was trying to do above.

 

[opethdisciple]

I like the product, but there is no hiding it's been a disaster of a launch. A disaster that is still giving.

 

[Street]

I Had the same problem, In my case the psu was on the way out and a swap fixed it. It was a fsp 850W Hydro gold. What would happen was a system reboot after a few mins of 3d load.

New PSU looks like it's sorted the problem. I stuck it in Friday night and it's been flawless all weekend, ultrawide gaming is great and after everyone saying how loud they are, to me it doesn't seem much different to my old RX480!

 

[malachi]

I like the product, but there is no hiding it's been a disaster of a launch. A disaster that is still giving.

Nah, its fine. Only 12 months too late, thats all.

 

[Boomstick777]

I like the product, but there is no hiding it's been a disaster of a launch. A disaster that is still giving.

??

Vega 56 competitive with GTX 1070 and cheaper, Vega 64 competitive with GTX 1080 and cheaper. That's pretty good isn't it? Lack of 1080 Ti rival is a shame but not the end of the world. That Nvidia card is priced so damn high, do we need more stupidly priced cards?

I must admit I don't follow the forum sway much these days. I like to read the reviews then try the cards for myself. Really happy with my 64, great card for the money.

 

[opethdisciple]

??

Vega 56 competitive with GTX 1070 and cheaper, Vega 64 competitive with GTX 1080 and cheaper. That's pretty good isn't it? Lack of 1080 Ti rival is a shame but not the end of the world. That Nvidia card is priced so damn high, do we need more stupidly priced cards?

I must admit I don't follow the forum sway much these days. I like to read the reviews then try the cards for myself. Really happy with my 64, great card for the money.

It's a good product performance wise. I like the forward looking DX12/Vulkan support and new hardware such as HBCC etc.

However it's terrible on power usage. And just when you thought that was the whole story we find out that OEMs are having issues. Further delaying 3rd party cards.

As well as the story of Raja going on 'leave'. If it is leave and not 'gardening leave'.

You've also got prices. It's a bit pricey for stock blower cards.

No hiding the fact it really couldn't of gone any worse.

 

[Cyberdyne Systems]

No matter what I put for my clock speed if I do 1250mv for P7 my clock will only hit 1752mhz does that mean that's my maximum boost clock or am I hitting a power limit or something?

 

[LtMatt]

Fifa 18 performs well on Vega 64 and it has DX11/12 modes. Both seem to perform similarly for me , so i use DX11 mode so i can turn up the eye candy a bit in Radeon Settings.

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