The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Paul Campbell · 21 Aug 2017 at 16:17

Shin1234 said:
Them moving the vrms makes me wonder what difference it will make as buildzoid stated the ref vrms are the most optimal setup.

Minimal to none. The difference will be the increased resistance from longer PCB traces.

Rannoch · 21 Aug 2017 at 16:19

nitram100 said:
Why are people buying this card, 1080 is faster and cheaper

At £449 perhaps it's as good buy against a 1080.

TonyTurbo78 · 21 Aug 2017 at 16:25

AmateurExpert said:
If the refresh rate goes above the top Freesync limit, then there will be tearing unless Vsync is enabled. In the drivers, there are four settings for Vsync (always off, off unless app specifies, on unless app specifies, always on) - what setting do you have this on for The Division?

Yep thanks for advice, I do get the whole freesync thing, I've had my screen for over 2 years. Its just freesync doesn't seem to be working for the division. I always have my vsync in driver set to always off and normally have a frtc set for 143fps. At the moment I'm just using a 72fps frtc whilst I await an EK full cover and backplate. With it set to 72fps the card isn't working all that hard and I can keep temps under 80c. Ran the in-game bench with the 72fps limit but could see blatant tearing so popped on vsync for now which has got rid of it.

Scougar · 21 Aug 2017 at 18:02

What's the max an owner here has managed to clock the memory so far?

Shin1234 · 21 Aug 2017 at 18:04

Scougar said:
What's the max an owner here has managed to clock the memory so far?

highest i have seen someone do and it work is 1050 with 1907

nashathedog · 21 Aug 2017 at 18:57

Merisimus said:
Well after crashing again, OCUK said return it to us.

Going to order a 1080ti since no replacements for ages and send this one back. its a 1:1 swap anyways..

There seems to be a lot of dud's locally, I wonder if there's an issue AMD knew about but had no option but to release and see how many return?

Gerard · 21 Aug 2017 at 18:59

Merisimus said:
Well after crashing again, OCUK said return it to us.

Going to order a 1080ti since no replacements for ages and send this one back. its a 1:1 swap anyways..

Another liquid cooled edition going down the crapper, 0_o

heartburnron · 21 Aug 2017 at 19:01

Scougar said:
What's the max an owner here has managed to clock the memory so far?

I've had mine running at 1907 and 1075 for the last few days without any issues. MD Platts has a few 3DMark benches at 1095 and 1100 on the memory recorded in the Firestrike and Timespy threads.

old gamer · 21 Aug 2017 at 19:13

From what I'm reading it looks more beneficial to overclock the memory rather than the core clock, a nice little boost without adding much power

AmateurExpert · 21 Aug 2017 at 19:27

TonyTurbo78 said:
I always have my vsync in driver set to always off and normally have a frtc set for 143fps

So apparently frtc doesn't work with The Division, and so it looks like Vega is fast enough to cause tearing with your settings; you might be able to get the in-game limiter (apparently buggy) to work.

TonyTurbo78 · 21 Aug 2017 at 21:42

AmateurExpert said:
So apparently frtc doesn't work with The Division, and so it looks like Vega is fast enough to cause tearing with your settings; you might be able to get the in-game limiter (apparently buggy) to work.

that post is 8 months old. And it was definitely working because I was doing the benchmark where it shows you the fps overlay. I have FRTC set to 72fps (to keep temps down until I watercool) and it was clearly locked to 72fps in game, I wasn't using Vsync and I had the in game frame cap disabled. FRTC was clearly working, tearing was clearly happening at 72fps.

Since then I've just turned on Vsync and kept the 72fps frtc in place, smooth as butter, absolutely lovely to play.

LtMatt · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:04

Grab Crimson 17.8.1 Vwga brethren.

azazl187 · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:08

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CapitalOne · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:23

AMDMatt said:
Grab Crimson 17.8.1 Vwga brethren.

Thanks Matt, but as it's bed time any info you can share?

Muchas gracias

AmateurExpert · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:31

TonyTurbo78 said:
that post is 8 months old. And it was definitely working because I was doing the benchmark where it shows you the fps overlay. I have FRTC set to 72fps (to keep temps down until I watercool) and it was clearly locked to 72fps in game, I wasn't using Vsync and I had the in game frame cap disabled. FRTC was clearly working, tearing was clearly happening at 72fps.

You're right - FRTC got fixed and then I see the release of ReLive drivers borked something else :rolleyes:

Does "Windowed (Fullscreen)" make a difference? Otherwise I'm out of ideas - @AMDMatt?

heartburnron · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:32

Was just playing Shadow Warrior 2 with my overclock of 1907/1075 and got a warning from the Radeon Settings that the GPU temp had exceeded it's limit. It didn't affect performance or crash or anything but after checking Wattman the peak temperature it hit was 71 degrees. Still not hot compared to the air cards but certainly the highest I've seen it. I'm guessing the warning limit for the AOI cards is set to 70 degrees then? AMDMatt - can you confirm this? Is there any reason why the AOI cards would be at some sort of risk for running higher than that given the air cards go up to 85?

TonyTurbo78 · 21 Aug 2017 at 22:47

AmateurExpert said:
You're right - FRTC got fixed and then I see the release of ReLive drivers borked something else
Does "Windowed (Fullscreen)" make a difference? Otherwise I'm out of ideas - @AMDMatt?

I only tried Fullscreen. Will have to play around tomorrow now.

heartburnron · 21 Aug 2017 at 23:13

Took 4 attempts but eventually managed to get the new drivers installed - kept getting the 'no signal' message then black screen with the occasional connect/disconnect notification sound. I did get a 1603 general error message after getting past the no signal problem and upon checking the log it is the HDMI audio driver that failed to install - I seem to get this every other time I updated my drivers, I assume it won't affect anything anyway given I'm using a DisplayPort connection anyway?

TonyTurbo78 · 21 Aug 2017 at 23:24

AMDMatt said:
Grab Crimson 17.8.1 Vwga brethren.

Thanks for heads up, shame nothing there about Wattman clock/voltage bug fix. Really need that asap.
And Matt, why is it we can't get some sort of overlay in the driver to monitor temps, speeds, frequencies in the style of MSIAB? would be a great feature that.

Razor Time · 21 Aug 2017 at 23:36

heartburnron said:
Was just playing Shadow Warrior 2 with my overclock of 1907/1075 and got a warning from the Radeon Settings that the GPU temp had exceeded it's limit. It didn't affect performance or crash or anything but after checking Wattman the peak temperature it hit was 71 degrees. Still not hot compared to the air cards but certainly the highest I've seen it. I'm guessing the warning limit for the AOI cards is set to 70 degrees then? AMDMatt - can you confirm this? Is there any reason why the AOI cards would be at some sort of risk for running higher than that given the air cards go up to 85?

As a guess it might be something to do with the coolant temp and damaging the pump, most watercooling pumps have a max coolant temp tolerance of about 55-60c. A gpu core temp of 71c is fairly toasty for a loop which would mean your coolant temps would in turn be fairly high.