AMD has officially dropped the price of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (in order to most probably rival the release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660Ti). According to the press release, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 offers high-end performance and incredible features with an attractive price tag, as it is now available for $279 / £249 / 285 EUR on various places.
As the press release reads, today’s top titles require increasing amounts of memory to deliver the performance, hyper-realistic settings and life-like characters gamers demand. With 8GB of HBM2 memory, the RX Vega 56 is purpose-built to power the most demanding titles.
Harnessing the AMD Vega GPU architecture, the RX Vega 56 also features:
- Rapid Packed Math doubles the rate of compute to allow for faster physics and compute calculations on RX Vega GPUs.
- Shader Intrinsics allow direct game-to-hardware access on RX Vega cards to extract more performance from the GPU.
- Radeon FreeSync display technology brings an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate, while FreeSync 2 HDR ensures low-latency, high-brightness pixels and a wide color gamut to High Dynamic Range (HDR) content for PC displays.
Gamers who purchase a Radeon RX Vega 56 or eligible Radeon RX Vega 56 powered PC will receive complimentary PC versions of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2, three of 2019’s most anticipated titles.
UPDATE:
AMD got in touch with us in order to better clarify things. According to the red team, this is a promotion and not a price drop.
“Radeon RX Vega 56 has been heavily promoted since the holidays and into the new year as partners have been eager to make RX Vega 56 and its forward looking 8GB of HBM2 available for more gamers. To clarify, the current Radeon RX Vega 56 promotion is not a price drop. Additionally, the RX Vega 56 graphics card will continue to be offered as part of AMD’s Raise the Game: Fully Loaded bundle with three of this year’s blockbuster titles.”
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The joke went right over your head, huh?
didnt want people say you are retarded , doh
The joke went right over your head, huh?
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That’s kind of the joke 😉
In terms of pure performance, is this card better than a GTX1070?
From what I’ve seen in benches the Vega 56 is slightly better overall but really, depending on the game, they are close to each other in performance.
If you undervolt the card, registry edit the power play tables and overclock the HBM2, it comes much closer to a 1080. It’s kind of a tweakers dream for that price.
But don’t forget you can also overclock the 1080 and open the gap in performance right back up.
True, but you’re still paying more for the 1080 at this point.
And you’re still getting a better performance if you overclock it.
Well yeah. Keep paying, keep getting more performance. Spend whatever you want really.
No, i’m just following your logic really, nothing else.
All three cards are about the same in terms of perfomance. But… GTX 1660Ti is King in power efficiency and heat. No brainer.
Vega 56> GTX 1070 > GTX 1660Ti
Vega 56> GTX 1070 > GTX 1660Ti
For those unaware of how far Vega can be pushed, Gamers Nexus got it to beat a 2070 in some titles. It’s not realistic for real world power and thermals, but it is f*cking cool.
https://www.gamersnexus(.)net/guides/3382-rtx-2070-versus-power-modded-vega-56
which makes it basically useless.
At the 1750 MHz that GN got it to, yes. But you can still keep things within the realm of reality if your clocks are around 1600 MHz, assuming you have a decent AIB model that is.
Yeah i’m sure of it, but introducing the story with “Got it to beat a 2070” to then say it’s not realistic or anything, makes it sound a bit like it’s some kind of attempt of “defending” a Vega 56.
I don’t think you get it. The 2070 is faster than 1080, it’s faster than Vega 64 Liquid Cooled. He got Vega 56 faster than a 2070.
Ok i don’t get it.
https://youtu.be/w6gpxe0QoUs
1660Ti, maximum 120 watt. Slighlty faster than 1070, amazing card for 1080p. GDDR6, too. If only had full AV1 codec support, it would be an instant buy for me. Now can you imagine the 1760 at 7nm with AV1 support? The best buy ever.
Good deal but still not worth if you think about it. Old tech, crap drivers, no Ansel, no Freestyle filters.
GTX 1660Ti is going to be more efficient, have better driver support, better performance etc.
It’s still fast, the drivers are actually rock solid, and the efficiency of the 56 is actually fine. I mean, it’s less than the difference of running a lightbulb vs the Nvidia equivalent. It literally has no impact on anything unless you just have a horribly underpowered PSU.
Underpowered? I’ve a solid CS550M Gold. If this PSU can’t hold the VEGA, I wouldn’t even consider it. Especially since I’m running only Z390 Chipset with an i5 8500 and 2x4GB DDR4 at 2667Mhz. Truly efficient setup.
Then you have no reason to be concerned about power draw, not at these levels.
Your CPU can draw nearly 140 watts, btw. If you want efficiency, you could do far better. A Ryzen 1700 or 2700 would be a better bet.
It will never draw 140 watts or anywhere close while gaming. Raping your CPU with Prime95 is a whole different matter.
Reviews easily show it clearing over 110-120, with modern games that tax the CPU more it could clear that even.
And surely you have links to these “reviews”? I could use a laugh.
Just look at the multi-threaded workloads.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i5_8500/17.html
Intel always lies about their TDPs. Not sure how they get away with it.
Another source,
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/intel-core-i5-8600-processor-(65w)-review,5.html
Don’t know where this “intel is efficient” myth comes from. Comparatively to Bulldozer, yeah, but basically nothing else.
Small problem though. I left nvidia and have no intention of going back to that slime ball company, but i really wanted to love AMD. After my Titan X died, i purchased a Vega 64 card 8 weeks ago and in the last week all i’ve been getting is a BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH headache. this card constantly crashes to black screen and when i looked up the recent reviews, it seems this is a widespread problem. My card is liquid cooled and there is even reports of people that RMA their card 3 times and still have these issues. It seems to me that this might be a very bad batch of GPU’s that they are trying to offload.
So what is a guy to do now, now that AMD seems to be a total failure and headache in MY EXPERIENCE, which is utterly sad because i so wanted to embrace AMD as i tell Nvidia to go FUq itself. Only 2 card manufactures in the world. So what am I suppose to do now, Stop gaming? Looking at these Vega cards, it seems that you need a truck load of knowledge, WHICH I HAVE to deal with. I’ve tried undervolting, DDU, resetting BIOS on MOBO. I’ve done it all and within the first 15 minutes of any GPU intensive game, I just black screen and have to hard reset my PC. The last thing, i’m trying to do is get stuck in RMA hell and continously RMAing, thus getting the same results. These cards are so Overvolted out of the box it’s rediculous. What is AMD trying to accomplish here by over-volting their cards? It’s as if they wnat Nvidia to be the only GPU On the market, good riddance.
It’s looking like Intel’s GPUs won’t be arriving until the end of 2020 so that’s a long way off and there’s no way to know right now if they might be delayed even further.
In the meantime it looks like you will have to RMA the card for a replacement and hope for the best. Probably not everyone is having to do multiple RMAs. Maybe you will come out alright with the first RMA.
If they sent me a second card that died right away I would press them hard for a refund. It’s ridiculous to put customers through back to back RMAs 3 times.
yeah its just a pain in the a$$ because my system is liquid cooled and that means everything is connected. So now i have to drain the loop, dismantle the card, put it back onto the original shroud and send it back. Meanwhile i have no PC to use.
sapphire is refusing to honor the warranty because i liquid cooled the card. These companies are piece of work i tell you.
then you better hope intel to be a real third force in discrete GPU world.
so AMD still have this black screen issue? i thought they already solve the issue entirely with polaris generation. before that the black screen issue is common on AMD going back to the first gen GCN. can’t really fault AMD to push their GPU to the limit. it is the only way they can keep up with nvidia. but starting with pascal generation AMD simply have nothing they can do anymore to keep up with nvidia efficiency.
Oh this issue is still very much prevalent and they will act as if it’s not a widespread issue, while the forums tell a whole other story in fact. I pretty much now have a useless piece of tech that can only play Warframe, because Warframe GPU usage is next to none. and as much as i love that game i dont want to get stuck playing just it. I try to run any other game or heaven Benchmark 4.0, it’s blackscreen of death. you go to newegg and look up teh negative reviews, they all say the same sh*t. This is why i don’t fanboy man and this why i hate fanboys, cause fanboys allows all companies to create a monopoly and then you are left with 2 players in the market.
The nvidia fanboys just sit their and defend them to death and pay for rubbish and AMD just sits their with their “lucky if it works tech” and let nvidia run a muck of the market. I wouldn’t, nvidia knows AMD cannot compete with them, so here we are with just these 2 companies. I wouldn’t be surprise dif they werent both working together to fuq us all. So what you have left is one shady A$$ company that you know is dirty to hell and then one lazy A$$ one.
So basically you have on one hand physical, real problems, with a product, which is basically stopping you to use it however you want it (in a reasonable way), on the other hand you have a mental/ethic problem which is stopping you from buying a different (possibly better) product, which would probably allow you to do whatever you can’t with the other product.
I hope this analysis can help you somehow, but as a completely neutral consumer, i honestly don’t see any unsolvable problem here.
R.I.P. 2060
At least if you want to write articles, make them crystal CLEAR. This offer is NOT valid everywhere around the globe. Mostly in the US, and the UK/EU, and that too in limited quantity/stock.
Also, provides links to the offer instead of just posting stuff:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-56-pulse-8gb-hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-11276-02-40g-gx-38f-sp.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-radeon-rx-vega-56-air-boost-oc-8gb-hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-343-ms.html?campaign=affiliate/tag
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-MSI-Radeon-RX-Vega-56-AIR-BOOST-8G-OC-Aktiv-PCIe-3-0-x16–Retail-_1223140.html
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137263&ignorebbr=1
Lol real shame cause I got a RX 590 about 4 months ago… Now you can get a Vega 56 for the same price AIB 590’s started at.
I paid 360 for my Vega 56. No regrets. More for less is how things should progress. Glad AMD is still carrying that torch.
Wasn’t like that for these last years honestly, due to mining mostly but still…
What torch exactly?
You guys in Brazil pay crazy prices. It must be due to high import tariffs.
A spokesperson for AMD provided a disappointing response, but at least we know where things stand:
“Radeon RX Vega 56 has been heavily promoted since the holidays and into the new year as partners have been eager to make RX Vega 56 and it’s forward looking 8GB of HBM2 available for more gamers. To clarify, the current Radeon RX Vega 56 promotion is not a price drop. Additionally, the RX Vega 56 graphics card will continue to be offered as part of AMD’s Raise the Game: Fully Loaded bundle with three of this year’s blockbuster titles.”
Over 300 euros here, suddenly. It will be a while before it becomes 280 euros, but I don’t see the card even less until the next card. Nonetheless, truly amazing card. If you are below 10 series, seriously consider buying it. You won’t miss anything.