Overclocking Vega 64 TO THE EXTREME 

glad to see Vega getting some love

I just picked up a vega 64 gigabyte OC edition on ebay for $230 shipped.

My car is frozen onto the driveway, at least I can see sub -30C overclocking at home.

Vega reminds me a lot of the R290x/290 when they came out. Really good capable cards absolutely kneecapped by really bad reference cooling solutions.

Thanks for helping me troubleshoot my computer on instagram

Timmy i would like to say i think that your a really reallly great youtuber you have a amazing personality and good when youtubers care about what they are doing and i thank you for being that way and also it gets cold there i lived in Canada for 5 years before moving to Tennessee because i had family there but thank you for the content it helps me with bad days to know i can come to your channel and sit down and watch some reliable content

Thanks for this, it was me who tweeted at you for Vega 64 content and u did thank you so much!

hey dude, was actualy just doing this, its going to hit negative 40 on wednesday, i was thinking of bringing my full pc outside and pushing everything to its limits, im running a powercolor vega 64 and 1800x

really enjoy your videos

Timmy Joe is like pc hardware from a more consumer perspective. I really love how you are using your environment

I feel like I'm doing a disservice by not water cooling my vega the numbers and stability are amazing. I just scared of doing the switch. The vega 64 is my frist graphic card

Thank you for this video 👍🏽

Radeon 7 has 1800+ mhz boost out of the box, gonna be gud

Hey Timmy, I just bought a Vega 64, was thinking of running the Morpheus, don't want to add in water cooling, is that mod worth it or just stick to the regular single blower? Also is it ideal to take the card apart and redo the thermal pads and paste?

Thanks for putting this up.

Great video, Timmy Joe. Been watching it for a year. Thanks for keeping it on RU-vid. Warrantee ended on my Vega 64 so I stripped off the box cooler and threw on some better fans. Yup. you're right. It does reach some pretty good clock speeds once you change the cooler. Managed to inch past 1810 Mhz before it became fickle, black screening to the desk top. Also notice it runs cooler with a mV power bump and the memory turned up, 34c under load. Runs fast, smooth and efficient @1770 Mhz, memory @ 1100 Mhz+. Never seen it go over 40c. Gonna keep Vega64 for a while or till the gpu market drops those money hungry prices for new 8gb cards. Thanks for the video tips, bud.

timmmy i cant belive you did this today. im gonna crank mine up too!!! tommorrow its gonna be -32c for me as well. it just so happens i have the same exact circumstances.

Can you also undervolt it too or not when you Overclocked it?

i flashed the liquid bios as well, and put it under water as well, but i am having an FPS drop bug, apparently it is due to the drivers after 19.1.1, so i rolled back and the issue disappeared, anyone have any idea on a fix for this?

You always make some of the best (most fun to watch) overclocking vids. RE2 benchmarks with the OCd Vega 64 would be nice...

Heck yeah thanks for the link on the power play edit. Been wanting a lil more juice out my gigabyte vega64 and it did just that got the clocks up more and gave me 8-10fps more avg fps hah

Did you hook it up to a kilowatt? I'm curious as to how much 0degrees lowers the power draw.

Hello @Timmy Joe PC Tech 😀 I put my Vega 56 in the water and now I have excellent temperatures under load on the 33 to 42c gpu. I am planning to do an aggressive overclock based on your sample. Could you ask me any other questions? What bios did you use on your card? What log file did you use "vega morepower" on your card? I tried to put Vega 64 aios bios on my card and it really hits 1750mhz, but every 5 seconds it downclocks to less than 1000mhz on the gpu no matter what I do. I got 1700mhz on the 1.2v gpu and 1100mhz on the 1v hbm2, with Vega64 bios and editing the registry for 150% morepower. But I'm fascinated by the possibility of obtaining 1800mhz. Would you help me?

Good Job Timmy, boy them temp are just sweet.

LOVE timmy joe! awesome shit brother!

1800+ holaayy... how much did you get on the stock cooler?

Good stuff man.

Need to do much better. With Canadain Cooling my Vega 64 with LC bios did 28.6K in FS and 8.6K in TS.

TJ if u find a Cooler Master Masterbox elite 5 RGB try to mod it for better airflow since i dotn know what to do besides removing the front panel

I got my vega 64 clocked up to 1820mhz on 1100mv stable. Feelsgoodman

Timmy needed the vega's warmth to keep him alive in this harsh canadian winter. Thank you amd for making such reliable space heaters.

"Not breaking any records today..." *proceeds to run v64 @ 1850mhz for 240w* Yeah bro. this is hero level tbh, lol

I just picked up a Vega 56 for 250 locally. Flashed to a 64 bios and OCed. Did way better then I thought it would got a 25% fps in one game, was pretty blown away

How can anyone thumbs down Timmy Joe? Coolest PC channel on the tube!

Dat face zoom TJ. Priceless. Keep it up with those PEWDER PARTZ!!

Looking forward to that X99 review!! Been running a 5820k as my main since Jan of 2015, only just recently (like, two days ago) built up a 9600k (yes I know you hate it but I don't do content creation/rendering/etc so I don't need threads I need frequency/fps and it was cheaper than an 8600k) with a Prime Z390-A and RTX2060. The Haswell-E served me well for many years running a 4.5Ghz OC, it is still a quite viable platform performance-wise if you're not looking for balls-to-the-wall 4k Ultra-Max-Super-Duper Over-9000FPS type of gaming chops. I'm excited to see what you've done with the old girl! Edit: BTW, I beat your graphics score on Time Spy with my 2060. 8135pts ;) Impressed with the little guy.

Nice man! I've got a Asus ROG Strix 64. It is usually reasonably quiet, but I only get in the upper 1500s, pushing 1600, with undervolting, 50% non-hacked power limit, and tweaked fan / clock curves and 2 GHz memory (in Wattman - ditched GPU Tweak 2 that came with the card since Wattman actually worked better [had to put a couple exhaust case fans back on motherboard control rather than GPU control though]). I don't go further due to wanting stability in my gaming sessions, but I love to see people pushing them.

so my vega 64 sapphire nitro plus clocked at 1752 usually only clocking to 1700ish with memory clocked to 1050mhz and i got a total score of 8188 and a graphics score of 8130. wondering how i got a better score with a lower clocked graphics card? and my cpu score was 8539.

If its like - 32 degrees outside, surely you want a massive air cooler blasting all that lovely heat into the room? Maximise its efficiency in another aspect of room heating? Win win! 😂 Great video! Love your stuff!

i have gotten scores of around 8400 in timespy with just the water cooled edition of vega 64 at normal room temperatures, try lowering the voltage to around 1160mv it will allow the card to pull more power

Vega Architecture is great! I wish it was just an easier way to unlock that power limit but I guess they didn't want people without a water block burning out their GPU lol. I might try to block my Vega 56 and see what I can do.

Great video

Timmy Joe!!! I just bought a "Stop staring at my GPUs" shirt PS Hopefully I see more Tim and Eric references :)

Woo! Computer Parts! TO THE EXTREEEEEEME!!!!

Love my Vega 64 sapphire nitro plus a air cooler that can actually handle the heat

Why not bump up the voltage on the core? Why would you think it won't help?

6:34 "I'm not messing with the voltage, because I don't think it does anything", whaaaat???

What is upt with the sound? Different than normal.

I've bought cheap fury X in 2016 (250$) and it just died with artifacts in november 2018. I can buy cheap vega 64 now but not sure because I want gpu that will survive for 4-6 years but not only 2 years. So should I buy this 200 watt monster or wait Navi and bla bla bla this year?

im starting to over clock mine now, sapphire v64, at stock voltages w pwr limit +50%, core 7.5% freq for 1752, memory 1050 max state, aggressive fan curve, temps mid 40s c max. i crash at core 1800, just needs more power limit? temps seem fine, anyone else have sapphire version

#ripjay #ripGN Edit: Thanks for the ❤, keep making awesome content!

I been playing around with a 1050 ti I got recently that uses external power by Gigabyte. The core was underwhelming at only a 100 Mhz offset for a boost clock of 1860, but the memory, holy shit the memory! I got an offset of 996 Mhz! My memory is running at 4.5 GHz for an effective speed of 9 GHz! I've never got an over clock of that magnitude on anything in my life, and the temps never even hit 60 degrees.

Makes me want to start trolling ebay looking for a vega

How did you get the water block they have been out of stock...

#ripjay

I just got a Gigabyte RX Vega 56 Gaming OC last night... Haven't done any overclocking (not really sure if I will - I have bad luck when I do), but I've been playing around with undervolting. I'm impressed with how it takes to making voltage adjustments - got my temps down, which reduced the fan speeds - and also stabilized the clocks. It seems to like sitting at max boost all the time now (strangely, that's 1576Mhz - Gigabyte's web site lists 1501 for max boost clock) as opposed to bouncing the clocks madly up and down like they are a yo-yo. But looking at my Kill-a-watt meter - I can't say I see anything dramatic with reduced power consumption - seems to be about the same. I like what I'm seeing for frame rates and quality settings. So my impressions are when it's the right price, it's a good card esp. for people that enjoy tweaking out settings.

Got a Vega 56 today for $150 US, and after selling my RX 580 I technically I only paid about 40 bucks for the upgrade. Can't wait to tinker away. The Vega 56 is a tinkerer's wet dream.

Yo Timmy, lovely Telecaster of yours. What model is it and for how long have you had it?

Can you do the same thing with r9 295x2?

weird results, my reference sapphire vega 64 scores about the same 8100 on timespy, and higher on firestrike at 26k. ive undervolted and overclocked to 1682 core and 1120 memory. either the gain from my higher hbm2 overclock is massive or his card is actually only running at around 1550mhz. my card hovers around 1630mhz at 75 degrees, 50%+ power limit.

my waterblock arrived today. Now i just got to find some thermal pads and im ready to cool this beast. then we will see what this vega 64 can do :) so ironic you got you card and did this video at the same time as i felt ebay prices got sweet.

I had to install a passive battery charger on my car last week because it wouldn't start in the last cold snap. Works great now. Wind chills got to -60*F here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Also you look good in red flannel. Totally an up north attire, I have many blue flannel jackets myself lol

so it is possible to use custom water block and with radiator? no need for pump water block or?

Great video with excellent results. My Strix Vega 64 with watercooling only gets around 1620Mhz @1130v. I'm just about to look at the video in your description about the power play tables, hopefully that gets me some love. For anyone reading that has a Asus Strix Vega 64 OC, have you flashed the LC bios on it? The Strix don't have reference boards so I'm not sure if I can and I can't find any info on it.

Vega64 is still a good card, I have one in my spare PC, doesn't overclock as well as the VII, that thing can haul ass when you are on water, talking 400mhz overclock on the core and 270hz on the ram. Almost 23% over stock boost speed! Best part, it's aging well, still able to keep up in modern games.

Yeah UVing is important not increasing voltage in a normal non subzero testing. Here we are seeing clocks and CB scores but IRL max FPS is key. When you said trouble keeping max clocks at stock that is the known issue that 56/64 cards have; they throttle BC stock voltage is too high. The supply issue at launch was mainly due to one HBM supplier's die was lower and not even with the GPU die so cooler fitment became an issue.

Feels like a missed opportunity not benchmarking the V64 at 1850 MHz vs reference V64 clocks vs R7 vs 5700 XT

X99 can still be fun to play with. Things to look out for; avoid beta BIOS with Spectre/Meltdown fix if you're benching, try to get 2400MHz or faster RAM that is matched so it can run at a command rate of 1 and tight tertiary timings. Disable RAM channel and bank training once your memory speed and settings are sorted, disable fast boot if using NVMe (messes with graphics drivers on boot up). Disable VTTd and all CPU virtualization including hardware snooping. Use the latest Intel IME and USB3 drivers so Windows 10 operates properly and fast. You may need to drop to PCIe 2.0 on some boards if pushing high BCLCK. That's the major ones coming to my head at the moment, I'm sure I'll think of others when I turn on my X99 system again, haha. Oh, I guess if you have Windows 10 Pro (any Windows Pro or server edition) you can lock pages in memory for a bit extra performance.

You'd need to stick the CPU on a loop out the window for anything more than like 4.8ghz on haswell-e and broadwell-e tops out around 4.5 to 4.6 without chilled cooling.

I love what you have done here in this video, but you really need to dial it in more. Can't just crank the core clock and expect it pump out the frames. Your gpu score is pretty much what a standard vega 64 air cooled can do undervolted. Mine does 8107 gpu score at 1670mhz air cooled. On an LC bios you have so much more head room!!! Look in to OverdriveNtool for overclocking instead of using wattman. Disable all the Pstates except P7 for core and P3 on the hbm and this will really lock in your true stable clocks :) Keep it up!!!

You mister are a proper lunatic! :D Love your Canadian winter overclocking! I guess your HBM2 clock was kinda limiting you... Nevertheless... nice stuff (Y)

I am getting a radeon 7 for sure... I just need a tight contained case, like maybe a fridge or something and hook that thing to a chiller. It will smash 1900MHz most likely at 7nm.

When youre surpassing Radeon VII with Vega 64

Hi Timmy Joe. I am fallowing your channel since 2 weeks. And thanks for nice pc component videos. This is awesome Vega 64 O.C video. But can you please show " Non O.C vs O.C " gaming Benchmark ? I want to see 1850 Mhz's Vega 64 O.C results :)

yo timmy love your content my friend your numbers seem a bit low defo something going on with ur cpu my vega 64 liquid cooled bios 1680 mhz no powerlimit mod 25700 or so in firestrike TR 2950x !! i thought the ipc on 5820k would be fairly close to tr !! if you ever get ur hands on 7700k or a 8700k would be nice to see what ya could get !!!

Enjoying my vega 64 since launch at MSRP (+free games and freesync discount) :) Love this card :)

Screw all that fancy work to get it cold. I got my rig in my garage and it's -29 here today. Im gonna have some fun over clocking with that later!

Crossfire Vega 56 is pretty cool, it don't get that cold down here.

I saw you chatting on the game grumps stream! cool dude!

My Vega 56 does 1702 on air man around 60c ish it's freezing out here tho. Wish I had a way to put a rad on it and see what I could do with it

I got my sapphire nitro+ rx vega 64 undervolted/overclocked to 1715mhz core @ 1065mV and 1120mhz memory @ 951mV @ +50% power on air @ 100% fan speed for gaming purposes all stable. While gaming the core is actually 1650mhz average. This gained me 8-15 more FPS @ 4K in all my games. The hottest I’ve seen it get is 70c and I play in 4K max settings 60FPS. Average power consumption is around 300W.

youtuber "not a apple fan" says vega likes undervolting more than more volts. idk man, I currently use a 1080ti, but really like vega stuff and hope to go navi soon.

That's a reference card? Hmm that's interesting considering Sapphires are 399 on newegg with RE 2, Devil may cry 5 and division 2. Although, I Think i'm going to wait for the Radeon 7. Subbed btw.

I got a Ventus RTX 2060 for $315 ordered it on Newegg 8 days ago and had it for 4 days so far and I love it. Upgraded from a RX 480 4Gb.

I just got a Vega 64 for 80 bucks and I’m hyped

1 Question that was a cold jitter and not a stutter right? :D

I've just got one XFX Vega 64 used card for 230EUR, and the best thing it that with 60FPS , FreeSync monitor , power is just about 80W !!!! man that is great, and temp is about 50 to 60 c , just great!

Recently bought 2nd hand Vega64 LC. Love it ,also I got a really good one. ~1820-1895mhz/1130mhz in time spy with 50% power limit , 8730 score. Getting close to Radeon VII performance :)

Picked up a reference Vega 56 when the prices dipped on the Used market for i think $140? idr, but holy moly is the stock blower not enough. It was shooting down to ~1,100MHz in some games and up to ~1280 in other games while also being hot and loud. Undervolted got it to 1250-1420 i think (don't remember exactly) but still hot and loud... So i put Liquid Metal and cut the bracket to let air through :-) then flashed 64 Bios. So with everything now it sits at 1520-1640 with the blower fan @2850rpm max and @76-79c (room is 70-72F)

I prefer wattman. Undervolting does work. Also hope you bumped up the memory.

This card is crazy insane!

I have 2 LC Vega 64's and a prototype Vega card with LC and 16Gb of HBM2. I'm not privy to talk about the latter much. It isn't a 7nm card, so hold your enthusiasm. The short reply is that my LC Vega cards can easily do 1850Mhz. They don't sustain those clocks unless additional cooling is provided. Without additional cooling, I can sustain 1750Mhz. At at those clocks, and memory overclocked to 1100Mhz, I can match RTX 2080 benchmarks all day. Of course I don't have ray tracing or DLSS, but so what? The prototype card has only ever been used as a single card. The other two LC Vega 64's have been used in crossfire. Crossfire does not scale very well in all games, but when it does.....oh my. The performance is so far off the charts that it is ridiculous. Yes, power requirements for this setup is rather large. But I've got the gear, so I use it. It might be an issue for someone that is gaming 10hrs a day every day. But that isn't me. Even if it was, it isn't like it's going to cost you $1000 in electricity.

600W?!?! Wowzers! Ya, not really worth it, but good on you for the overall results. 👍🏻

How can I make my Vega 64 go past +50% power?

Can you upload your Config?

Can you tell us the name of the intro song please?

Why only 1060MHz on HBM2? You could get that to like 1150MHz if you tried.

@Timmy Joe PC Tech you need to push your card more :D my vega 56 with vega 64 bios on air, with memory set to 1100, gpu@ 1.19V p7 set to 1820, resulting in 1755MHz max boost gets 26K graphics score in firestrike. Maybe reduce the voltage?

Wanted vega so bad like 9 months ago but ended up buying a new system a ryzen 5 2600 b350 tomahawk and 16gb 3000mhz ram with a rx 580 and 1080p 144hz freesync monitor. Wanted to up grade from my I5 3570k and 1060. This was before nvidia was allowed to use freesync and I'm still happy with the decision. Just wish I waited but you can wait forever for better deals.

Don't put the LC bios on the non-LC cards. It introduces consistent stutter on the more recent driver versions.