And the moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived. AMD has lifted the NDA for its two new graphics cards, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, and below you can find a lot of gaming benchmarks from different publications that got their hands on them.
In this story we’ll be focusing on games that were not featured in our previous Radeon RX Vega 64 story. Moreover, we’ll try to focus on DX12 titles and whether these games favour AMD’s GPUs.
Let’s start with a game that favours AMD’s GPUs, DOOM. AMD claimed in its official slides that id Software’s title was running faster on the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 than on its direct competitor, the NVIDIA GTX1080, and that is actually true. According to Anandtech’s results, the game runs better on AMD’s hardware in pretty much all resolutions.
Things are also looking extremely great for AMD’s latest GPU in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. According to Hexus results, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is faster in all resolutions than the EVGA GeForce GTX1080 FTW.
But what about some other DX12 titles? Well, things are not looking great for AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64 in both Gears of War 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider. In these two titles, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 is noticeably faster than the Radeon RX Vega 64.
NVIDIA’s GTX1080 is also faster in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt according to Bit-tech’s results.
Furthermore, there are also some games with mixed results. One of them is Dawn of War III. While the game runs slower in full HD and quad HD resolutions on AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64, it does appear to run a bit faster in ultra HD resolutions on team red (at least according to Anandtech’s results).
Before closing, let us tell you that the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is power hungry graphics card. According to all reviews, this card requires more power than even the GeForce GTX1080Ti. Whether this is something that will put off customers from purchasing an AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU remains to be seen.
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A year earlier, with less power draw, this would’ve been “very good”, now it needs to settle for a “meh”
sadly total disapointemet , and what kills you more the power usage and the noise from the coil …… total fail !
Ryzen was great but it seems vega is a joke
Kind of impressed with the Vega 56 results tbh. Its too bad the miners are going to ruin that card for everyone. Good msrp, nice benchmarks.
Yeah, early predictions show the Vega’s performing well in mining, which means prices wont drop for either AMD or Nvidia cards, in fact prices prices will proly increase on both sides, on AMD’s side because miners, and Nvidia’s because if the competitions prices are so high, why should they keeps their prices low. So the end-user gets the shaft every time.
Well according to TPU the Vega 64 trades blows with a 1080 non-Ti but draws 150 more watts than the 1080. People who pay a lot for electricity aren’t going to be happy with that. Additionally the greater power draw generates more heat so that is a consideration for some. TPU also cited it for the fan being noisy and throttling due to high temps. Here’s a recap of W1zzard’s Pros and Cons:
Pros
Matches GTX 1080 performance
Enhanced Sync works amazingly well
FreeSync at no increased monitor cost
New instructions, packed math, primitive shaders
Simplified tuning profiles in WattMan
HBCC
Dual BIOS
Backplate included
HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3/MST/HDR, video engine improvements
Cons
Extremely high power draw
Lots of fan noise
High temperatures
Throttling
Coil noise at high FPS
Fan does not stop in idle
Yeah but still a card that uses this much power will not run as cool as a 1080 with similar after market cooling. My GPU fan doesn’t even turn on until I start playing games as its running below 50C most of the time.
I wonder what the miners will think of the Vega 64. They run their cards at max 24 hours a day every day. With the power draw I’m not sure if they will see this as economical to use. Also there’s the throttling to consider. I don’t follow what miners do though so maybe they wouldn’t care. One sure way to know is if they are in short supply constantly.
its okay, there moms pay for the electricity.
Well, that’s pretty much a fail
From your perspective.
From a technical perspective less performance or even if we are being nice to a 1080 while using almost as much power as 2 1080’s in SLI yeah I call that a failure
Still not as powerful as NVIDIA’s top of the line while simultaneously drawing a lot more power. F
Well, it finally happened. A year late to the party. A few drivers tweaks might up the performance a bit, hard to say.
The Vega 56 is sweet though. Perhaps nVidia will lower the price of the GTX 1070?
Overall, hard to recommend Vega 64 over the GTX 1080, more or less same performance and much higher power draw. The Vega 56 on the other hand looks good VS the GTX 1070, but it’s really too late to gain market share in that segment.
I’m pretty sure the MSRP of the 1070 is $350 its just that miners are all buying the 1070’s because the 400 series, 500 series, and 1060’s are all sold out thats why all the 1070’s are high priced right now.
I have the R9 290X Flashbacks 🙂
my god like I said I wish Amd would fully separate itself from Radeon group VEGA64 is overall about even at best with a 1080 while almost consuming as much power as 2 1080’s.
Failure I would never buy it over a 1080
This is just dramatically bad. I was very skeptical and was always laughing at this hype and waiting, because I expected typical situation, somewhat reasonable competition in all segments, so I laughed that people are waiting over a year to save $5, because Vega will perform similarly to Pascal and cost about the same. But this… This is just so bad, especially considering that this is a year after. This launch has exceeded even the biggest skeptics expectations.
From all the reviews and videos I’ve seen the Vega 56 card is by far the Best Buy out of all the options from AMD right now. If you don’t have a 1070 GTX or better and want something with performance higher than a GTX 1070 quality I would get Vega 56.
Because Vega 56 has higher performance percentages over the 1070 then Vegas 64 does over the 1080. To me Vega 64 is just not worth the money.
Vega 64 is pretty disappointing to me, the 56 is much better though considering it’s price. Most looking forward to the perf/watt of the Vega Nano than anything else!
Some people call this GPU bad, a joke and whatever else.. Anyway I call this the Vega 56 the top mid-range card to buy. If I had the choice to buy a Vega 56 over a GTX 1070 a year ago it would have been the Vega if anyone is upgrading late consumers have a great option!
That said AMD really needs to get their $hit together and release competitive products on time instead of letting NVidia price gauge the marker -_-
i think it will be hard to sell vega 64 in my country because the price will be the same with 1080ti
345 watts power requirement for the liquid cooled Vega 64!
At least better than past AMD GPU offerings. I’m currently building a new PC and this time around it will be a AMD Ryzen/Nvidia Geforce machine after having Intel/Nvidia for years.
Nice damage control.
Too bad the 1080 Ti has 11GB of VRAM, so this benchmark is a complete falsehood.
F’in liar.