PowerColor Red Devil Vega 56 8GB review
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JonasBeckman
Nice to see more reviews of the custom Vega GPU's. 🙂
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That's not too bad, what does it translate too at retailers though.
And let's see here (56 version.) one store has them listed so far from what I can tell (Not in stock though.) for...700 USD after conversion.
(Sans tax and such which in total drives it up to about 840 USD.)
Guessing the shortage and price hiking isn't going away any time soon.
Nice review though, always fun to read these. 🙂
EDIT: Some Sapphire 64's are listed too on a few stores between 750 to 800 Euro or 900 - 950 USD roughly.
At that point you're really going to want to look into a 1080Ti ha ha, well hopefully this will be resolved before too long.
(I mean it's only been about four months or so now since the product launched. 😀 Ha ha.)
EDIT: And going back to the review it seems the cooler is doing pretty good keeping thermals in check and at a slightly reduced noise level although overall performance isn't too different but it's a little bit faster than the stock 56 🙂
(Though even the '56 draws a fair bit of power compared to competing products.)
And I see there's a mention of the pricing and availability situation at the final page of the review.
Wonder if there's going to be a review of the Sapphire version eventually, that should be a fun read.
(More power! Ha ha, well as long as there's a good PSU in the system I suppose that's one way to get more out of the GPU and it does have a bios switch that lowers it down a bit.)
So these and any other Vegas will be the main availability from now on then with AMD no longer making reference models available and existing supply slowly dwindling down.
Will be interesting to see what the situation looks like next year, primarily for price and availability but also if other models will be unveiled and if there's any truth to the Vega refresh GPU but then that's going to hit right into another supply and demand situation I'd imagine.
warlord
1070Ti is the rival (not old 1070(non-Ti)) of Vega56 and wins by large margin.
1080 oc 11Gbps is the true rival (not old one 10gbps) of Vega64 and wins by large margin.
Every benchmark site including us here, should take this into consideration and don't sweeten the pill for AMD. They weren't enough competitive this round. End.
Nice review by the way. Thanks.
BReal85
warlord
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SHS
I couldn't agree more with your whole post JonasBeckman
Kaarme
Is the memory used in 56 and 64 different? Cheaper variety in 56? Or does AMD artificially create the value difference between them by forcing lower MHz in the 56 and disabling overclocking the memory? Maybe HBM2 is so delicate it will melt if overclocked practically at all.
Why don't you buy all the relevant cards and test, let's say 500 games with them and some computing plus productivity software while you are at it? We'll hear back from you in 2019 when you publish the results. I'm afraid you won't be seeing the break for a good long while, but you can prove your point beyond doubt.
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JonasBeckman
Crest
Hilbert, big fan of your website for years nows ! I think I saw an error in the GPU shootout table, and wanted to let you know (maybe I'm mistaken).
I see RX Vega 56 STRIX, just above the VEGA 64. As far as I know you never had the 56, but the 64 STRIX in test... Also the numbers are not correct I think for a 56.
Best regard,
Lee83ant
This is kinda frustrating at the moment, I really want to upgrade my 970 GTX and was planning to go AMD for free sync but the price of these cards are insane, just browsing through some retailers this card sells for more then a 1080 GTX. I understand that the price point is supposed to me much lower but for the actual cost of these cards as a gamer it seems really poor value 🙁
ZXRaziel
I cannot wait for the "bittcon" bubble to burst , then the prices of graphics cards will drop to where they should be .
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ZXRaziel
BReal85
The Edge
Well a nice card but Vega 56's biggest problem is the price. I can get a reference Vega 56 for 470€ cheapest. For that same price I can have a nice aftermarket Evga 1070 Ti. But the biggest problem for both of these is that the cheapest aftermarket 1080 is 520€. And if you are ready to spent 470, I bet you can find those 50€ to buy a way better 1080 instead.
slicer
Did I read correctly that AMD has locked the HBM2 clock on non-reference cards like this one?
I have seen that so many good things come when OC'ing the HBM2 memory to 1000 or more....
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