The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

[Deleted member 651465]

Jayztwocents has a good watercooling video, and it seems that Vega loves water.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Id go for the 1080 with the amount of borked Vega', they seem to be suffering from the black screen problem that plagued the 290s.

Not one black screen here in the few weeks I've had this card, just fantastic performance I think I got very lucky.

I did however have black screens on my 390's

 

[Chewie]

New card from a different retailer received, wish me luck

 

[JediFragger]

What temps are the AiO's hitting out of interest?

 

[heartburnron]

What temps are the AiO's hitting out of interest?

On the stock fan profiles they can get close to the max limit at full load which is 70 degrees. I small tweak to the fan profile keeps the card around 60 though regardless of what you throw at it. If fan noise was not an issue you could keep the card in the 50s if you chose to.

 

[Robert]

Id go for the 1080 with the amount of borked Vega', they seem to be suffering from the black screen problem that plagued the 290s.

Without the black screen problem?

 

[JediFragger]

On the stock fan profiles they can get close to the max limit at full load which is 70 degrees. I small tweak to the fan profile keeps the card around 60 though regardless of what you throw at it. If fan noise was not an issue you could keep the card in the 50s if you chose to.

Ok thanks, that was a little worse than I expected. Thank anyhow for the info

 

[gupsterg]

So...vega 64 at 470 or 1080?

1440o

I went GTX 1080. Got the MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk EK X.

Even with current promo on a blower VEGA 56/64 its £380/£480 plus £100 on WB. I found the GTX 1080 at ~£480, factory WB, so shouldn't be any warranty issues. Seeing the TPU reviews of VEGA 64, a GTX 1080 FE is ~1% averaged performance higher than VEGA 64. The MSI is ~1847MHz boost, viewing another TPU review that's ~10% gain on GTX 1080 FE for performance, noted on OCN several results of WB Pascal at ~2-2.1GHz. Even if I keep it at stock I reckon it will be ~8% performance gain on VEGA 64. Will miss out on FreeSync, but could flip the card later. Needed to move on from Fury X, as it's a 4GB card I reckon resale will plummet as soon as this current climate of GPU prices is over.

Perhaps if the gains on VEGA are improved with what is currently not enabled in driver I'll move back to AMD or just wait it out til Navi to move.

 

[lordhawkwind]

When I bought my Vega 64 AC as soon as I went into a game I got the black screens and eventually it rebooted. Turned out my 700w PSU just couldn't handle it and AMD are right in saying minimum spec is 750w. Fitted a new FSP Hydro-G 850w and since then it's been gaming bliss. I notice a few of you that are having the black screens have the AIO version and AMD recommend a 1000w PSU to run them.

Anything less and you're close to the edge TBH and reading some of the posts people are getting them to run in power save mode or bios 2 but they won't run at balanced/stock. Whichever way you look at it Vega is a power hog and you really do need the recommended spec to make it run right. If you haven't got that PSU either you need to buy a new one or don't buy a Vega card if you don't want to be disappointed. Sad but that seems to be where we are with Vega. Great card if you can tame the power!

 

[Apache14]

Iv been running my Vega 64 air cooled on the primary bios in turbo mode with no issues (running super position in loops of 3)

I have the 750watt super flower leadex gold and running with :-

Ryzen 1700 @ stock
16GB DDR4 3200 @ 2933
1x 256GB NVME SSD
1x 128GB SATA SSD
1x some HDD that I can't remember
Custom water loop for CPU
4x PWM fans

Overall I think the power supply I'm using is extremely durable and we'll designed when seeing others having issues with PSUs of the same wattage ratings.

 

[NathG79]

New card from a different retailer received, wish me luck

I have the same model.

The 'wave' as they call it.
Running fine..no problems.

 

[labbby]

@Gibbo you are famous on youtube again redgamingtech has used you as the insider that has told everyone AMD sell the vega at a 100 dollar loss... Well i sort of put my own spin on it but you still got named

 

[labbby]

New card from a different retailer received, wish me luck

Are there actually any differences in the 3rd party aio cards ? It looks like what they did with the AMD fury x's... They just got re badged by 3rd parties...

 

[gupsterg]

All cards are ref AMD MBA.

So yeah AIB has their sticker and that's it.

AIB seems to be allowed this time to do custom full ASIC (ie VEGA 64 Strix is already announced), where as before on Fiji, full ASIC was not allowed to be custom (ie Fury X/Nano).

 

[labbby]

ah thanks

 

[gupsterg]

No worries .

What's gonna be interesting is how AIB cards are IMO. Will we see CORE and RAM OC'd like on other past AMD cards, exception of Fiji which was just CORE on Fury cards (ie Fiji Pro).

Also what will go on with full cover waterblocks. Fiji only the ref PCBs had them, IIRC even Polaris has been like that, Grenada was limited as well on that aspect but Hawaii did have waterblocks for AIB cards.

 

[heartburnron]

When I bought my Vega 64 AC as soon as I went into a game I got the black screens and eventually it rebooted. Turned out my 700w PSU just couldn't handle it and AMD are right in saying minimum spec is 750w. Fitted a new FSP Hydro-G 850w and since then it's been gaming bliss. I notice a few of you that are having the black screens have the AIO version and AMD recommend a 1000w PSU to run them.

Anything less and you're close to the edge TBH and reading some of the posts people are getting them to run in power save mode or bios 2 but they won't run at balanced/stock. Whichever way you look at it Vega is a power hog and you really do need the recommended spec to make it run right. If you haven't got that PSU either you need to buy a new one or don't buy a Vega card if you don't want to be disappointed. Sad but that seems to be where we are with Vega. Great card if you can tame the power!

You really don't need a 1000w PSU for the AOI cards, a decent 850w is absolutely fine. I've had no black screens or any issues at all running mine at +50% power with the core voltage, core and memory clocks all increased beyond stock. For anyone who is unsure this PSU calculator is fairly comprehensive and up to date with latest components: https://seasonic.com/psu-calculator/ I have quite a few extras, 4 storage drives, AOI CPU cooler, LED strip, DVD writer, etc. and mine comes out at 700w.

The stuff you've been reading here about people having to use power saving mode or bios 2 are those who have been unlucky and received faulty cards.

 

[kundi]

What temps are the AiO's hitting out of interest?

The default fan profile in manual mode (400-2300rpm) keeps my card around 60. I've seen it hit as high as 62 in my system.

 

[heartburnron]

Ok thanks, that was a little worse than I expected. Thank anyhow for the info

Just out of interest, what were you expecting? And when you describe it as 'worse', would there be a benefit of them being lower than what they are?

 

[JediFragger]

Just out of interest, what were you expecting? And when you describe it as 'worse', would there be a benefit of them being lower than what they are?

Well I know they start to throttle around 70c so was hoping it would keep it in the high 50's/low 60's at the max.