Welcome to the begin of our Radeon RX Vega insurance. Now we might want to factor out that we best obtained a Vega pattern yesterday, on a Sunday. AMD ended up playing the role of the courier and hand delivered the sample to us due to the fact the initial Vega 64 shipment got misplaced along the manner. Those samples must be arriving later this week even though, so assume observe up insurance soon.

Due to the restricted time we’ve had with Vega 56 we've positioned all our focus and energy on gaming benchmarks, with over 20 games covered up. Later this week, while we obtain our behind schedule Vega 64 pattern, we will offer a more thorough assessment wherein we test for different GPU elements which includes overclocking, working temperatures and power consumption.

On the upside, we had been nicely conscious Vega become on its way and set for release on August 14, so the second one we wrapped up Threadripper trying out, we modified gears and began GPU checking out. All the facts on this evaluate is one hundred% clean, we've recorded it over the last few days the usage of the modern available drivers. As standard, the GPU checking out changed into conducted on our Core i7-7700K check system clocked at 4.nine GHz.

For now we've got rankings for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 1080, 1070, and 1060, in addition to the Radeon RX 580, and Fury X, protecting performance at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions.

At the head of AMD's new Radeon RX Vega family we've got the liquid cooled version of the RX Vega 64. This version capabilities 64 compute devices for a grand total of 4096 stream processors, or cores. It operates at a base frequency of 1406 MHz with a boost frequency of 1677 MHz. That’s a far cry from the 1.nine - 2.zero GHz Nvidia’s GPUs accelerate to, however we knew the green crew would still come away with a clock pace gain.

Even at this frequency the RX Vega sixty four LC Edition boasts a height single precision throughput of thirteen.7 teraflops, that’s extra than the eleven.3 teraflops the GTX 1080 Ti spits out and roughly 60% more than the Fury X.

The air-cooled version recognized sincerely as RX Vega sixty four has the identical number of cores, they’re simply clocked eleven% decrease for the base at 1247 MHz and eight% decrease for the raise at 1546 MHz. As you may have guessed this has reduced the peak single precision throughput through eight%.

Then we've the reduce down RX Vega 56 which we're trying out these days. It functions 56 compute units for 3584 circulate processors and that’s a thirteen% discount in center count when compared to the 64 version.

All three models come outfitted with 8GB's of 2nd-era high bandwidth memory (HBM 2) which provides 484 GB/s of bandwidth for the Vega sixty four cards and 410 GB/s for Vega fifty six. The only concerning specification here is the board electricity score which sees the liquid cooled version slapped with a 345 watt rating, 295 watts for the air-cooled model, and 210 watts for Vega fifty six.

The base Radeon RX Vega 64 "black" is coming in at $500, set to in shape the present day MSRP of the GeForce GTX 1080, and right here AMD says it will become "the brand new GPU king." The constrained version air cooled model will come at a $50 top rate, so $550 all up. Meanwhile, the quicker liquid cooled Vega sixty four model will are available at $600, undercutting the GTX 1080 Ti via $100.

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will come in at $400, priced along the GTX 1070. In my opinion the RX Vega 56 looks to be the excellent value proposition of the lot and as the most inexpensive version we're kind of happy that is in which we’re beginning.

It's time we begin looking at those blue bar graphs. Do word due to the fact we've examined with 25 video games at three resolutions there are seventy five (!) graphs on this evaluate. We'll simply attention on 1440p consequences for commentary because of time constraints, but the 1080p and 4K effects may be proven along while discussing the 1440p numbers.

One closing and really essential notice. Please be conscious we no longer check with AMD or Nvidia reference pics cards as we strongly recommend consumers keep away from these models (because of the top class worried) and happily most purchasers do anyway. So in preference to testing with the GTX 1070 Founders Edition, we're using the MSI Gaming X model which is a touch bit faster way to a higher cooler and factory overclocking. You have the whole list of pix playing cards used in the desk below as regular.

GPU Test System Specs

  • Intel Core i7-7700K
  • Asrock Z270Taichi
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM (CL14)
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 4TB
  • Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Gaming [11GB]
  • MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X [8GB]
  • MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X [8GB]
  • MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X+ 9Gbps [6GB]
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega fifty six [8GB]
  • AMD Radeon Fury X [4GB]
  • Gigabyte Aorus RX 580 XTR [8GB]
  • Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 384.94 WHQL
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega 17.30.1051 Beta 6a
  • Windows 10 Pro sixty four-bit

Benchmarks

Far Cry Primal

First up we've Far Cry Primal and here is a quick observe the 1080p and 4K outcomes. Vega 56 trails the GTX 1070 at 1080p and 4K that is peculiar given it pulled beforehand at 1440p. The margins had been narrow both manner but then again we was amazed to locate the Radeon photos card hitting the lead by means of a 5% margin at 1440p.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Moving to to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands we see that AMD’s new mid-variety to excessive-stop contender trails the GTX 1070 though this time suits it on the 4K resolution. Switching returned to 1440p we see that overall performance is tons the same, technically Vega fifty six turned into a body slower however you realize, margin of blunders and all, so yeah quite a great deal the equal performance in Wildlands.

Overwatch

Next up we've the highly Overwatch and that is a identify that changed into traditionally desired the inexperienced group and we find that all over again that is the case right here with the GTX 1070 effortlessly beating the brand new Vega fifty six GPU at 1080p and 4K. Looking at the 1440p numbers we see that the 1070 is nine% quicker on common which is a decent win for Nvidia.