>Witcher 3 Max Settings (no Hairworks) 1080p >Benchmarking Novigrad City Run Through >Average FPS: 95 >1% Low FPS: 70 >0.1% Low FPS: 53 >Power Draw Average: ~120-130 Watts
Stock settings get me around 99 FPS average so I'm losing ~4% over the stock configuration but reducing power consumption by ~33%. Stock Vega 56 is also ~7% faster than a stock GTX 1070 (depends on the game but with a large enough selection that's how it plays out).
Fuck you nigger, this is tech related. AMD's problem is that they over-volt EVERYTHING at stock settings. The Vega architecture is a lot more power efficient than people think.
Landon Jones
You don't own a gtx 1070...
Oliver Brown
>AMD kills Intel >Nvidia kills AMD Pottery
Camden Edwards
Nigger you can undervolt the 1070 too.
Then it just makes Pooga 56 look even worse.
Evan Adams
>Nigger nigger >Muh games
Ryder Turner
Read tons of 1070 reviews and viewed the Digital Foundry review that shows the same area I benchmarked. Besides, I'm only losing ~4% performance from the stock configuration and all the reviews suggest Vega 56 is ~7% faster than the 1070.
I think the main problem with Vega is the core being massively overvolted. Mine can do 1400 MHz with just 820 mV.
Cameron Mitchell
Show me what the results are (and not for mining).
Brody Price
Everyone has always gotta talk smack about AMD, but I really believe they'll win in the end. When they announce Q is 2019, that'll be the game changer.
Brayden James
t. salty linux toddler
Jonathan Carter
t. butthurt underage nigger.
Jackson Smith
nvidia pays for better support from developers than amd does, and that often makes a bigger difference than >10% raw performance. if you're doing something other than gaming, vega is probably worth it. but not for gaming.
I don't regret the two 1070's I bought for my two rigs. not right now at least.
Cooper Bennett
Vega 56 beats the 1070 in most gaming benchmarks, you're retarded.
Logan Anderson
sure, when the amd support chooses all the benchmarks.
if you're gaming why would you underclock anyway
you're gaming, if you cared about actually saving power you'd just NOT be gaming
Cameron Reyes
t. cia nigger
William Morris
You know what they say, if a product can't stand on its own..
Ryder Cooper
Actually, it's hit and miss when it comes to the 1070 and Vega 56. In some games NVIDIA wins and in some AMD does. Hard to tell which GPU is better.
Henry Stewart
Same settings (except mine can't hold 960Mhz HBM stable so 945 instead).
Fire Strike Extreme stress test = 202 watts max. Gaming will be lower for the most part though. Especially if you enable Radeon Chill.
The chad ryzen >The Vega architecture is a lot more power efficient than people think. Isn't it vega architecture that they're shovin in their apu's cellphones and laptops? Obviously it must be really efficient. The only problem I though was that i doesn't scale properly
>I don't regret the two 1070's I bought for my two rigs. not right now at least. do you really need two? There are poor niggers like me that have to spend their whole xmas bonus on a 1060 3gb. And here you are just talking non-chalantly about $1400 worth of gpu's that you don't even need. Capitalist pig.
Austin Powell
You're a faggot. Kill yourself.
John Powell
>poor voltage
Nolan Williams
t. inhell nigger
Aiden Williams
You poorfags are hilarious. You buy garbage "underdog" hardware and then spend your free time trying to convince yourself and others that you actually made the best choice.
Post-purchase rationalization is a hell of a thing.
Zachary Bailey
And how much it was for a Vega 56? I got my 1070 for 400 bucks a month ago, the Vega was around the 650-700 bucks.
Mason Reed
t. inhell peasant
David Lopez
I don't know whats more hilarious? Buying a superior product price to performance wise or giving your money to criminal organisations that have exploit and extort the market into a monopoly only to charge their customers twice the products worth.
John Edwards
I got mine for £380. Flashed the 64 BIOS and can nearly match a 1080.
wake me up when I can get vega 56 for gtx1070 price
Eli Martinez
Does AMD hardware still run like a Siberian oven?
Chase Thompson
All me baby, cry more.
Thomas Carter
where the fuck do I even buy a vega they're out of stock everywhere
Nicholas Gonzalez
Intel and Nvidia hardware have taken the job as the heater for people in Siberia.
Anthony Robinson
>amd has to overvolt TO COMPETE >which means they can't compete without inefficiency >which means the product is inefficient, and shit
Congrats on tweaking your shit to make up for being a poorfag. It's still shit.
Hudson Gutierrez
I'd rather have barely 7% less performance with more features.
>Shadowplay >Shield >Drivers that aren't fucking garbage >I can actually afford a 1070
Plus if I develop autism and start mining crypto the 1070 is the better choice.
Andrew Phillips
Inefficient. Compared to 1070 it costs 3x more.
Wyatt Nguyen
I should mention that the total power draw of my card (including PCIE draw) is ~160 Watts while testing with Witcher 3. I'll see what I get with other GPU stress tests. Timespy results with my undervolted card in the pic.
It's shit in the way you have to tweak the settings to get decent performance per watt but I got a cheap FreeSync monitor and bought my Vega 56 for 470 euros (with Wolfenstein 2 and Prey included, though I didn't want them). So a decent deal when you consider that FreeSync monitors are much cheaper than GoySync monitors.
Vega was let down by HBM2 (it was supposed to offer 1.2 times the bandwidth it actually does) and it's poor frequency scaling made it even worse with the GPU core overvolted.
Vega should of been a mid to high end card. Vega 64 is an embarrassment.
can someone just clock it to like 50% stock frequency and make it draw 20W i'm considering buying one but 600€ is a lot for a toy
Jeremiah Thompson
back to containment board
Blake Bailey
Nigger, AMD has had a feature identical to shadowplay for more than a year now. Try to stay on top of your memes.
Logan Brown
t. ganoo pluhs loonix plebeian
Bentley Perez
Are you a shareholder, dude? I think you have a bigger problem now with the GPP stuff
Jacob Turner
>reducing power consumption by ~33% Who in the hell actually cares about power consumption? Like, seriously. I have never once worried myself about how much electricity my rig uses.
Tyler Wilson
AMD has created a muh underdog cult.
Xavier Ortiz
I know, but many of them are actual shareholders who bought shares in 2015/16. They're all over tech websites and YouTube's comment sections speculating and it's kinda funny to see it was all in vain
Charles Ortiz
feature identical... relive works better then shadowplay
fuck your shield
considering nvidia drivers are the only ones I crash playing video with, and will drop my monitor till I unplug and replug it in, ill call amd better. just note im o n a 1060 6gb right now.
Nolan Flores
390X here, ReLive is a mess.
Ethan Phillips
more power means more heat, and some of us have upses so lower watts means longer use.
Liam Cooper
had access to a 290 and 290x, was better than shadowplay by a significant margin.
Jace Bell
>had access to Well I have access to it right fucking now and it's still much worse than OBS
Oliver Rivera
Booty blasted
Levi Edwards
nvidia/intel would have the same 'underdog cult' if they were on the bottom.
Anyone who isnt a teenager trying to justify what their mom bought them understands that competition is great and would like to see each of them have a fair and equal share of the market.
Joshua Davis
This.
AMD needs to stop fucking aound do a complete redesign on an ultra high clockspeed ultra efficient 2,000 shader design and then make MCM chips out of multiples of those dies.
Austin Wilson
>Anyone who isnt a teenager trying to justify what their mom bought them understands that competition is great and would like to see each of them have a fair and equal share of the market. And of course the mature thing to do is spazzing, shitposting and defending your favorite company online, right? AMD is fucked because of their own stupidity
Owen Young
t. inhell plebeian
Josiah Morgan
Only the first post you quoted is me. To answers your question, I was but I traded AMD for Micron last December.
Levi Watson
*answer
I may get back in but only if they show data center market share gain by Q3.
Caleb Johnson
>I was but I traded AMD for Micron last December Dodged a bullet
Jonathan Martin
Yeah we knew 64 was overpriced and the 56 was the sweet deal. I'm on the 64 BIOS and get some pretty good results. Not quite as good as yours (silicon lottery) but good enough. If I overclock I can get to GTX 1080 levels of performance (at least in 3DMark).
V56/64 is a MASSIVE chip vs the 1070...Vega is a mess OP
Caleb Cooper
Vega 56 is good. 64 is trash.
Cameron Cook
Or buying the better product instead buying amd garbage and then acquiring Stockholm syndrome to delude yourself that the shit you bought is actually gold.
Lincoln Bennett
>good It was released more than one year after its rival, it's hotter and consumes more power and you still have the usual driver overhead and shit OpenGL support (goodbye emulators)
Henry Bailey
they aren't always both for me, and they have different uses in different rooms.
One of them runs servers and stuff and doubles as the gf's pc sometimes and VR rig (eventually) and the other is my personal PC for gaming and browsing in a small form factor case, which I'll be switching to the NFC S4 mini case next month.
I'm a bit new money (got a raise from 40k to 110k annually early last year) so I wanted to build some nice pc's that I could use to replace my old rig with a really shitty passively cooled card and 1155-socket cpu.
I can't wait to get fucked by taxes in april
Hudson White
t. nvidiot
Jason Evans
what are the odds OP bought a vega and forgot to upgrade his psu?
Camden Hill
Why did you switch the color of their lightsabers?
They were already green and blue
Hudson Turner
You're free to prove me wrong :^)
Leo Allen
You want to be proven wrong. Okay pleb. Look at pic. It's you.
Now I agree, I am extremely disappointed by AMD and my next GPU is going to be a Nvidia
Charles Miller
I have a GTX 770 and my next GPU will be AMD because I have become a proud AMD cocksucker. Although my 770 is great, I regret not getting the R9 280 at the time.
>The 480/580 are good I agree, but good and great are two different things
Jaxson Phillips
If you game at 1440p or lower resolution on a monitor that has a refresh rate of 75 Hz or lower there's no need for that kind of OC. You're probably drawing 270 Watts for the GPU alone at that clock speed.
After further testing I've found the sweet spot for Vega: CF 1250 MHz @ VC 820 mV MF 960 MHz. This pulls roughly 155 Watts for the card alone. Though I'm not exactly sure how to get the best estimate for GPU only power draw. I'm using Corsair Link to monitor the system power draw along with a socket power meter and GPUZ's GPU power draw measure.
When idle Corsair Link says ~79 Watt average draw and when I stress the CPU only 100% it reads ~157 Watts (R5 1600X @ 3.8 GHz VC 1.3 V). Then running the Witcher 3 it averages 260 watts. Gaming doesn't stress the CPU 100% (~35% I think) so the basic math works out the GPU power consumption at ~155 Watts. GPUZ says ~122 Watt average but that's probably an under estimate.
I'm getting 72 FPS average in the Witcher 3 at 1440p ultra in Novigrad which is fine as I've got a AOC Q3279VWF 32" VA 75 Hz FreeSync monitor.
That was just to see how high it would clock on air on the stock GPU without crashing. In reality I keep it a lot lower and try to conserve power and keep it quiet like I posted prior to that.
Elijah Harris
Probably some sort of advanced joke about how AMD kills Intel but then gets killed by Nvidia? Which wouldn't have worked with the original colors.
Jack Powell
Vega would be fine if custom cards were available 18 months earlier and it was priced appropriately.
Unfortunately it uses twice as much die as a 1080 for the same performance, plus some VRAM that's crazy expensive, so that's never going to happen. Unless AMD pulls some driver magic out of their ass, or mining demand takes off again it'll fade away after Volta drops and it's relegated to being a 2060/2070 competitor.
The package is also incredibly delicate and I regularly see idiots destroy their cards trying to do basic repasting stuff that is trivial on most other cards.
Polaris is fine and a 28-32 CU Vega would also be fine. GCN just gets unbalanced when you try and scale it past that point.
Gavin Evans
>something would be fine if it was available before the tapeout No shit.
Dylan Hernandez
You fucking retard that watt man is only gpu power consumption you need a external watt meter like the reviews to compare
