RX Vega Owners Thread, Tests, Mods, BIOS & Tweaks !

Got a small break from mining and run firestrike with my 2 X Vega FE. ..46K Graphics...of course my 5930k struggles to keep up with them in crossfire..

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/25574691

They run smooth as butter in crossfire with 18.2.1 WHQL, good job AMD

 

Some new & Updated Benchies:

Spoiler: Hunt Showdown

Spoiler: FF XV

Spoiler: Ghost of a Tale

 

AMD Radeon RX Vega Gets A New Custom Model, Courtesy of PowerColor – A Triple Fan Red Dragon Design!


PowerColor, one of AMD’s exclusive board partner is prepping a new model of the RX Vega series. This new lineup will be known as the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega Red Dragon.
PowerColor already offers custom RX Vega boards in the form of the RX Vega Red Devil series which is one of the most beefiest custom RX Vega graphics board.

PowerColor has officially announced the Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Dragon graphics card along with its specifications. It features 3584 Stream processors clocked at a frequency of up to 1487 MHz, 8 GB HBM2 memory clocked at 800 MHz along a 2048-bit bus interface and requires power from a 8 and 6 pin connector configuration. The card is expected to hit retail on 28th of March, price wasn’t confirmed.

-> https://videocardz.com/press-release/powercolor-announces-red-dragon-rx-vega-56

 

Only 1500€/$

 

9999€
TBF you'll find one for ~400-500 easy...

 

Radeon RX Vega 56 Pulse Test:
Sapphires gives Vega a Nano-PCB

-> https://www.computerbase.de/2018-03/sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-56-pulse-test

 

It’s almost time to tear through Hope County in Far Cry 5, the latest in the Far Cry series. This time around Far Cry is using an ‘enhanced’ version of Dunia 2 whose base graphics engine has been in use for some time now. That’s not always a bad thing as it gives developers time to mature their approach to an engine. But what we’re wanting to see today is how well the new Ryzen 5 2400G can handle this massive game.

There’s a couple interesting things packed into this game from the perspective of the game engine: RPM and Shader Intrinsics.

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RPM (Rapid Packed Math)
Far Cry 5 uses this technique on a number of shaders. The game’s RPM implementation allows values required by shader instructions to be demoted to 16-bit width, and then packed into 32-bit wide GPRs (General Purpose Registers). Using fewer GPRs means that more graphics threads can run in parallel, increasing GPU efficiency. A version of this implementation is used for water surfaces as well as lighting.

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Shader Intrinsics
This allows the game to have access to similar close-to-metal features on the PC, as on the console.

Scalarization – certain lighting passes are offloaded to the scalar pipeline with the help of intrinsic functions.
Data transfer between waves – Instead of using Localized Data Share, intrinsic functions are used to shuffle data around.
ALU operations exposed through intrinsics – instead of emulating specific math operations, intrinsic functions are used.

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game is waiting to be unlocked. Waiting for 5K Vega CF plessure/wine
Gonna do a subtile reshade treatment too

 

Lol.."find it easy"... so easy .. post the links for him.

 

WIll be avaible wide very soon
Sry to not link, but im happy w/GPU i have for now, and different regions have different shops/stocks etc.
I will buy Vega refresh later in Yas. (summer maybe)

Analyst firm Susquehanna has cut AMD and NVIDIA's share price targets on the wake of confirmed reports on Bitmain's upcoming Ethereum ASIC. There's been talks about such a product for months - and some actual silicon steering as well that might support it.
Susquehanna, through analyst Christopher Rolland in a note to clients Monday, cited their travels in Asia as a source of information.

This has brought confirmations that "(...) Bitmain has already developed an ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] for mining Ethereum, and is readying the supply chain for shipments in 2Q18."
And it doesn't seem Bitmain is the only company eyeing the doors of yet another extremely lucrative ASIC mining market:
"While Bitmain is likely to be the largest ASIC vendor (currently 70-80% of Bitcoin mining ASICs) and the first to market with this product, we have learned of at least three other companies working on Ethereum ASICs, all at various stages of development."

 

Blind Test

So: Vega is more into Image Quality and nV is into more FPS (Vibrace is Turned on IMO, on Radeon you need to crank up Saturation to 119-124).
Same stuff as was years ago

 

For me, IPS 21:9, saturation is not an issue. Nothing looks dull.
I love my freesync 1 monitor, but I cant wait to get freesync 2 and a Vega 56.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/89uzar/vega_nano_pcbvrm_analysis/

AMD Vega Nano PCB from the Sapphire Pulse GPU model which uses this instead of the full length ones.

My technical expertise is not all that good but it's interesting to see the difference in VRM's but it doesn't appear to be holding back the GPU much and it still does up to 1600 Mhz core clock speeds like many other Nano models and if flashed the Samsung HBM2 memory modules can hold up to 1200 Mhz which is pretty impressive compared to the other non-reference boards mostly using Hynix ones and clocking a bit lower.

 

They need to learn a new H/W and how to assemble it in the right way
Vega now is more and more interesting,

PS.
No new leaks about Vega refresh, but -> (my source claims "It will emerge in late summer, from diffrent AIBs")
At last 3-4 different 64/56 models will hit the stores.

 

And maybe they'll be affordable?

 

really depends on whether the new ethereum and monero asics crash the gpu crypto market and people lose confidence in it.
or they just start mining something else...

 

-> https://sapphirenation.net/the-evolution-of-gcn

! GCN 5, the future with RX Vega

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