1700MHz RX VEGA 64 - how FAST is it? 

Nice to see someone doing this finally. I meant to do it but had to give my Rx Vega back :(

Maybe you should shoot Linus and Jay a message, letting them know vega is actually a decent card

The real question is - why did I not switch the lights to blue on the card until now? :/ SMH...

Jesus Christ those 1% lows are beautiful

awesome idea to flash the bios I love the information you're passing on here with this channel

You have made an amazing job here man! Congrats! The only thing I would have liked is seeing how much did the power draw increased. We already know that it's bananas so It's not a huge deal, which is probably why you didn't bother going that extra mile, but it would be cool to show that data too. Keep up the great work man! I don't think this channel has enough subs and views. Some of the bigger channels, like jaytwocents, now make really bad videos, with minimal effort, data and with boring content. I hope they learn from you a little bit :)

You truly know how to get it all out of your hardware.. when I see a video from you , I know it’s gonna be nothing short of amazing..

you just earned a sub, im not an amd user but i like your format and how thoroughly you examined the card

Great video man. I really enjoyed it. Funny thing must be the power draw xD

Thank you, mate. You have the most amazing videos on RU-vid!

Great content :D highly underrated youtube channel right here

Love your channel! Please show more vega content! Huge AMD fanboy here!

Holy SHIT!!! MindBlank you are a freaking BEAST!!! We want more AMD VIDEOS!! When the new 12nm chips and cards hit I know your gonna blow our minds!!!!!! Thank you and show the world how MINDBLANK DOES IT!!! Thank you for all your work!!

You had me at Enthoo Pro M and blue eLoop fans 😀. I'm doing the same except with EK waterblock, white eLoops, and Enthoo Pro M SE and vega56. You are the Man.

Good video as always! Thanks

Great video and a really nice custom loop. Vega64 has become very cheap now in early 2019 so I'm considering a watercooled one for less money than an RTX 2070!

Damn that's awesome setup. Nice piping!

Great video again! Really enjoy your Vega videos :)

October 2018 here, this vid just made my day :)

Man I love your channel

Another great video mate! wunderbar!

You really made that RX Vega 64 purchase really work out for your channel - pretty much gone through every affordable option!

Good you went with the block-only on the Alphacool cooler. I had the EisWolf and the GPU pump died. Alphacool didn't care.

great job and great video, as always

Amazing production quality and content

Hey thank you for this video. I have been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out what was wrong with my card and it has the same issue you have not going over 1700 mhz at all. Now trying to find a good long term place for it. The new low prices I was able to grab the Vega 64 power color with ek block for $350

Wow !! Pretty good gains.

excellent review quality and graphics, have no clue why you dont get more views...

please test the rest of the games and compare totals!

which driver version is this? btw please try the softpoweplaytable from oc.net to increase the power limit further! really appreciated, best review ever!

That is a really really cool build, well done. Can you do a video with liquid metal on the RX Vega?

Very nice video man You should see what one is capable of at 1800mhz, have a few vids on my channel, no benches or graphs just gameplay footage with overlays though. Strange thing is, I've just finished an upgrade on my rig to a 8700k @ 5GHz so will need to record some proper videos as my old vids all with 3770k and ddr3 but with the new hardware I can't get past 1750mhz :( . Vega 64 is a beast on water, but there are better options when you add all the money needed for a full custom loop.

Have almost the same setup running in the aluminum EKWB kit.

awesome vid!

Do you think that Morpheus II would not have been up to the task cooling Vega64, when You had run it also with Vega64 LC bios and those clocks? Also what were your HBM2 voltages when running 1140Mhz?

Hey, I don’t know if this pc is still together. But I was wondering if you might recall what your hot spot temps were? I have a alphacool eiswolf on my Vega and the hotspot still hits 100 degrees.

Good stuff, adding powerdraw might be usefull though.

I bought the frontiers edition LC for now, as it dropped by over 40% in price. I wasnt sure, if I really want to hold on to the card, so I thought it would be good to take the LC one, as I guess it sells better later on, as people like those cooling methods. What do you think about the LC one? As I am not planning to directly overclock it, it is fine I guess, and the 16GB of VRAM are coming on a cheap for HBM2...so I took that ooportunity although I perhaps never benefit from it. Fingers crossed: I hope, I am not disappointed. My last few decisions on graphics cards, although controversial to others opinions, always brought me on top. I had no GPU update for a long time. My HD7970 (probably my best gfx card buy ever, considering a 680 cannot run anything anymore) now is really old. I havent upgraded, because the kind of games I play. I hope, that the aging on the AMD cards will catch the 1080 completely and even compete with a 1080Ti. BTW: I am looking forward to the new drivers. 11.4 already showed a massive increase on witcher, which makes your result even cooler. Lets see, what adrenalin drivers have to offer.

Very cool video. Only thing that would have made it better would be power draw comparison.

1440p is RX Vega home sweet home, and plz, more vega content! do an HBCC video, and one when the new adrenalin drivers are released! thx! keep up the good work

just a question i also have this waterblock and had it in a loop with the eisbaer 240mm cpu cooler too with a 360mm rad on the vega, but not custom loop. just using the quick connect. my gpu is running at 55-60c and even in its own loop too. does running a full custom loop change temps by 15-20c?

hey mindblank, nice video. i use the same water block on my vega 56. and i am seeing the same issue, that it crashes at stock settings (1750MHz boost). so i think that makes it very likely that the liquid cooled cards use binned chips. did you somehow tune the pump/fan-curve? i only use a double radiator... after a while under hard load the fluid temp rises as soon as i use a high power target on the LC bios.

I like your video this is 1080 max OC vs RX 64 Max OC random lottery, and good cooling.

please review the card again with the adrenaline edition

best PC content on YT right now

6:04 Why is HBCC off? Is it becuse RX Vega has it disabled by hardware? Or did you disable it? I have heard that RX Vega has HBCC disabled, but I have also heard that it either IS Enabled, or it can be if you want it to.

I have my vega under water, but it's an Asus and there is no lc bios. So I struggle to get over 1670mhz, with 1.2 volts it won't even go over 1630, so 1100mv is were i get max clock which I don't understand because my card gets only 38 degrees hot. Any solutions for me?

I can do 1712/1000 with a vega 56 stock cooler (super loud though) and vega 64 bios installed for that memory overclock

you gotta put a fan on the passively cool vrms on the card!

how much power does this actually draw now? I have a feeling that my Sapphire Nitro+ will handle the heat no worries - Im definitely hitting power limit which set at +50%VA is only 315W, I can Volt down to get 1650-1680 in superposition, but it's hitting up at that max power and crashing a lot. might be worth the bios flash.

I've seen it mentioned elsewhere that the Vega Liquid BIOS needs to read pump RPM or else it thinks the pump has failed and shuts down to protect the card. That might be the reason yours cashed with the liquid BIOS.

Running my sapphire pulse v56 with v64 liquid bios a little underclocked and undervolted at 1660/1100mhz for over 6 months now. Temps are fine at 85C hotspot when 100% loaded too...not bad for an air cooler. Got lucky with the card both having samsung ram and a good chip for a change...Although one DP port stopped working but who cares....

Such a nice video, and Vega 64 doesn't lose in gaming performance, but will it win the power consumption? Whose fault is this?

Excellent sir.

My Vega 64 keeps loosing its tachometer bars and the screen just looses signal. I tried everything and even have 2 PSUs hooked up for it. It’s a water cooled custom. Temps are fine but it just does that annoying thing

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Oh the hotspot woes on my water cooled 56. Took several re-pastes and re-mounting of the waterblock to get acceptable temps. It's the silent performance killer on these cards; sad too because AMD doesn't talk at all about it, or even report it in their own software.

Hi mate are you still running lc bios. As iam getting clock drops

this helps alot i was always wondering why my rx 580 8gb card kept dropping clocks. I thought it was due to over heating and re did thermal paste but nothing changed so now Ya power board limit must be it

So this is probably the stock performance we can expect from Air cooled Vega once it switches from 14nm LPP process to the 12nmLP process next year.

in case of no water loop do you recommend morhpeus ?

What I’d like to see is the rx580 chip on 12nm node and a gddr6 controller.. that would or should be a nice uplift on AMD’s medium low range graphics cards.. in theory it would make a strong 1080p and a decent 1440p card

Good review but I have to point out that you can increase GTX 1080 performance by another 5-10% by doing the shunt mod or flashing bioses without power limit.

What if I told you I got my MSI Vega 56 Air Boost OC is passing 1.6Ghz already in some games on that stock blower cooler 😊 Can't wait to water cool this thing.

Outstanding! Best Vega review! I want it, but it's too expensive, so I just bought gtx1080

Do you think a modified nzxt G10 + 140mm rad would be enough to get 1700mhz?

So about the Morpheus again: You spoke about problems with the cooling of Vegas VRM, if I remember correctly. So what do I do with them ? Grab a Metal Saw and make some very tiny Passive Coolers for them or do I leave them blank? And if I leave them blank, how much RPM should my Fans do ? The highest I found is an Industrial Standart 1500-3000RPM Fan. But that would cost me 30€ each and it won't be a Silent Build, that's for sure ^^ Any Tips ? Thank you !

I'm very happy with Stock Vega64 :-)

I've been trying to figure out if Vega 64 would be able to run stable at 1500MHz, and this vid seals the deal for me. I like Nvidia cards but Vega's seem better overall, although not as fast. I'm kinda disappointed to read that using any card with a slower card will down clock the faster card. I wanted to mix 2x Vega 64+ 1x Radeon Pro Duo 32GB, but the best clock speed attainable on pro Duo seem to be sub-1200MHz. I was hoping to at least leave the Vega's stock, but OC the Pro Duo to 1247MHz, but 1180MHz is the best I've seen.

Lol this man was experiencing Vega VII speeds in 2017.

Nice vid, thanks. Can't run 64 liquid BIOS because of 'hot spot' temps. The liquid temp caps at 70c. At your max clocks on air BIOS you are already hitting over that. This makes the liquid BIOS unstable. I have same issue. I will try different thermal paste applications to see if I can get that 'hot spot' temp down.

i would like to see what you could do with a 1080 after water cooling it and spending the time tweaking it like you did your vega card.

I'd like to see power consumption numbers next to the results. It makes a big difference to some who still look at this card as a power hog (like me).

I really want to know how to flash my GTX 1080 FE cards. I have them under water and would really like better clocks.

So... I'm getting stable 1720/1020 on air (Sapphire Nitro+ though), did I get lucky or what ? I wanted to put it in a custom loop but in 2020 that might just be too late.

I have my Vega 56 on air running at 1704mhz core man. No heat issue or anything. Sapphire pulse

Did you get the red devil sample yet? Waiting to see that review

i wonder what makes the vega scale better for ultrawide gaming. Also, would a 750W power supply be able to run that system?

interested in 1080 power consumption at 2070/11000 clocks.

Fucking impressive.

Its kinda lame.that ltt and jayz2c are so much more popular than your channel, your content is waaaay better. More indepth, clear explanatioms of what you did and why, results to back up your talk... So much better! Keep up the excelent work man, and do some promotion of your channel, the world needs to know this exists :)

Whats a fittings they are? Thx

Very very nice video, but what about power consumption at this frequencies?

Great video mate. This under-rated reviewer is much better than Toxic JayztwoCents TBH

Vegeta! What does that scouter say about the power consumption?

I kinda wanna see that graph you showed at the start with the new results just to see the difference, same with the 5 results you didn't put it it shouldn't do but gives people the wrong idea and makes it seem like the vega can't keep up with the 1080 in any game without these clocks

1080ti is still ahead but Volta GTX cards will be much further ahead to complete with Volta and needs new gpus

mine crashes under any load with the LC bios... what am i supposed to change now

The real enemy is the 1070ti which when overclocked runs just over a stock 1080, except it costs £350 in the uk on deal atm.

Not many 2017 games even bothers to take advantage of the new features the latest GPU has to bother making full use of Vega cards anyways, they resort to simpler Nvidia libraries and features at times because it saves them time and money. 2018 is where you expect to see a lot more 'next gen' games that will utilize hardware from Vega and onward...

I went the smart route and have a 1080ti paired with a ryzen 1700 :)

How are the TDPs on botth OC gpus?

What do you think about the EK FLUID GAMING A240R for RX Vega?

Vaga red devil 64 is £449 on 21/11/2018 in the uk..

ARre those fps in 1080p? 1440p?

mine goes to 1720-1750 stable and 1100 on the mem. it beats 1080's easy and its close to some of the 1080ti's

this vid makes me want to water cool my 64

Imagine this when Adrenaline comes out.

Any chance you can get your hands on a sapphire rx vega 64 Niro +?

I'm running 1715mhz and 1100mhz on a Sapphire Nitro 64. Is it worth flashing the LC bios on it?