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Vega 56 and 64 would be decent, but AMD basically overclocked them way too far past the point of diminishing returns out of the box, in order to make them, on p
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
Vega 56 and 64 would be decent, but AMD basically overclocked them way too far past the point of diminishing returns out of the box, in order to make them, on paper, beat the GTX 1070 and 1080 respectively. If put on a power-saver profile, they're suddenly much more respectable. But AMD keep gambling that a loud, power-hungry and hot by default card will do well if it narrowly beats the closest NVidia card in benchmarks. They should perhaps stop making this gamble.
Or so this guy claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AavuWT17X48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AavuWT17X48. Seems to be borne out by reviewers' general impressions though.
- BoorishBears 9y agoWhat I've seen points more towards Vega 56 actually not being a bad value all things considered. But Vega 64 is overvolted severely to get to the 1080's level of performance so it runs hot and loud. Some people have been able to undervolt their cards until they reached reasonable power draw for the performance level, but AMD wouldn't set a high voltage for no reason, implying they did it to improve what percentage of their yield could be shipped as Vega 64