The preliminary performance of AMD's new Radeon RX Vega 56 may additionally have regarded a little lackluster at release in case you had been waiting for it to exceed the strides made via Nvidia's 12 months-vintage GTX 10 series. At fine, Vega 56 became a smidgen quicker than the GTX 1070 for approximately the same sum of money, even as consuming greater energy, so in spite of looking magnificent in absolute phrases, we felt it become going to be a tough sell.

We had the opportunity to give Vega 56 a terrific exercise at release, but we did not receive a Vega 64 card on time for a review. In truth, our pattern handiest arrived Monday, at which factor we dropped the entirety and had been testing given that.

With that said, this might be the largest GPU benchmarking session in TechSpot's records, it's so large that we almost gave up after accepting the venture. After approximately per week's well worth of trying out, we've got an awesome amount of data to pour over. Our authentic plan became to add 5 video games to the 25 titles we at first tested. In the end, after such a lot of requests we felt forced to add seven more video games for a complete of 32 titles benchmarked in this text.

Additionally, we have delivered consequences from the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 Founders Edition pics cards, which were as compared alongside the custom board companion cards at resolutions of 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

We'll be the use of our Core i7-7700K take a look at rig clocked at four.9GHz however still plan to do large trying out with Vega and the GeForce 10 collection on Ryzen as nicely. Enough messing approximately, we've paintings to do...

RX Vega GPU Test Specs

  • Intel Core i7-7700K
  • Asrock Z270 Taichi
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM (CL14)
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 4TB
  • Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Gaming [11GB]
  • MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X [8GB]
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition [8GB]
  • MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X [8GB]
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition [8GB]
  • MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X+ 9Gbps [6GB]
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega sixty four Liquid Cooled Edition[8GB]
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 [8GB]
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 [8GB]
  • AMD Radeon Fury X [4GB]
  • Gigabyte Aorus RX 580 XTR [8GB]
  • Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 384.ninety four WHQL
  • AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.8.1
  • Windows 10 Pro sixty four-bit

Benchmarks

Getting things going, we've got Ashes of the Singularity aka 'Ashes of the Benchmark' and this is a identify I expected AMD's new Vega series to perform quite nicely in. Nvidia has positioned a heap of time into developing their drivers to make up for the GeForce 10 collection' susceptible DX12 overall performance and we see it paying off here. The GTX 1070 kind of matches Vega fifty six while the GTX 1080 matched pleasant model of Vega sixty four -- a moderate result common for AMD.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate has been added back for this article after receiving quite a few requests for it, inclusive of from Tim -- not certain if he's partial to the sport or what. Unfortunately, that is a terrible name for AMD and even the air-cooled Vega 64 card falls in the back of the GTX 1070. Not a remarkable attempt in our second name tested but AMD has every other 30 to titles to recover.

Well that did not take long, proper into Battlefield 1 and already we are seeing lots more aggressive performance from Vega. Something well worth noting although is how poorly the air-cooled Vega 64 card does in this title, only simply coping with to facet out Vega 56. The liquid cooled version is an awful lot more fantastic with a mean of 122fps, which is a good bit faster than even a custom GTX 1080.