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ASUS Radeon ROG RX Vega 64 STRIX 8GB review
Posted by: on: 09/25/2017 11:14 AM [
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We review the ASUS Radeon ROG RX Vega 64 STRIX 8GB Gaming. ASUS finalized it's all custom product, we'll take you through the product, its architecture and the performance numbers. Will custom cooling make all the difference?
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Dazz
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Posted on: 09/06/2017 03:35 PM
Hilbert can you try and overclock the memory on the sample? Apparently the Vega GPU's are quite memory staved and i am wondering if the direct contact cooler on the HBM improves memory overclocking at all. If a Vega 56 hitting 980Mhz on the memory can push it to Vega 64 territory i wonder how these much better cooler do with the HBM attach to the memory do. Apparently all them cores on the GPU still can't flex themselves in games due to the "limited" bandwidth but Open GL loves them extra cores as it's no saturating the memory. Think AMD really need to improve their memory colour compression, nvidias is around 70% efficent.
Hilbert can you try and overclock the memory on the sample? Apparently the Vega GPU's are quite memory staved and i am wondering if the direct contact cooler on the HBM improves memory overclocking at all. If a Vega 56 hitting 980Mhz on the memory can push it to Vega 64 territory i wonder how these much better cooler do with the HBM attach to the memory do. Apparently all them cores on the GPU still can't flex themselves in games due to the "limited" bandwidth but Open GL loves them extra cores as it's no saturating the memory. Think AMD really need to improve their memory colour compression, nvidias is around 70% efficent.
slicer
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Posted on: 09/06/2017 03:39 PM
Did I miss the price or was that not included?
Did I miss the price or was that not included?
Evildead666
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Posted on: 09/06/2017 03:44 PM
"HBM2 while expensive is not that expensive"
Get your facts right, HMB2 is like 4 times more expensive over DDR5.
Vega monolithic design plus HBM killed all appeal for the card. Only fans, miners and people looking for that productivity performance buy them.
Gamers buy them too, and they aren't neccessarily Fans, or Miners, or "Productivity" people. It really pisses me off to be called that.
I bought it, because I wanted to upgrade my card, and stay AMD.
Thats it. Not an AMD Fan, just happy to give them some money, and I think its worth it (once watercooled).
Great review Hilbert. I was expecting the Strix to clock much higher, due to the beefy cooler.
These really seem to need to be watercooled for Max performance.
"HBM2 while expensive is not that expensive"
Get your facts right, HMB2 is like 4 times more expensive over DDR5.
Vega monolithic design plus HBM killed all appeal for the card. Only fans, miners and people looking for that productivity performance buy them.
Gamers buy them too, and they aren't neccessarily Fans, or Miners, or "Productivity" people. It really pisses me off to be called that.
I bought it, because I wanted to upgrade my card, and stay AMD.
Thats it. Not an AMD Fan, just happy to give them some money, and I think its worth it (once watercooled).
Great review Hilbert. I was expecting the Strix to clock much higher, due to the beefy cooler.
These really seem to need to be watercooled for Max performance.
BReal85
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Posted on: 09/06/2017 04:14 PM
I was hoping the Vega with aftermarket coolers would be better
The 290X wasn't better with AIB cards except for the lower temps and somewhat less noise. A 300W card can't be cooled better with less noise only if they would use the Power Save mode.
In compartion to Ryzen over Intel CPU, this GPU is a weak one for gaming !
Big power consumtion, big price, nearly same performance as 1080.
I can't get to your point. Weak for gaming? Tell that the 1080 is an overall (pow. cons., price, performance) better card, but how can you say this one is weak? That would mean you think the 1080 is also weak for gaming... omg.
I was hoping the Vega with aftermarket coolers would be better
The 290X wasn't better with AIB cards except for the lower temps and somewhat less noise. A 300W card can't be cooled better with less noise only if they would use the Power Save mode.
In compartion to Ryzen over Intel CPU, this GPU is a weak one for gaming !
Big power consumtion, big price, nearly same performance as 1080.
I can't get to your point. Weak for gaming? Tell that the 1080 is an overall (pow. cons., price, performance) better card, but how can you say this one is weak? That would mean you think the 1080 is also weak for gaming... omg.
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In compartion to Ryzen over Intel CPU, this GPU is a weak one for gaming !
Big power consumtion, big price, nearly same performance as 1080.
Using HBM2 they only manage to catch up with Nvidia so not a big deal.
Sorry AMD but you better rename the card as mining card (MPU or something) and not GPU. I hate the fact that NVIDIA has no oposition.
And the trend AMD is going to (card for mining) will pull Nvidia to make a more mining oriented card.
Now i need to wait for the next NVIDIA card for a better performance.
If you are a miner, those are good cards (AMD are making money from it).