Thursday, August 3rd 2017
AMD RX Vega 56 Benchmarks Leaked - An (Unverified) GTX 1070 Killer
TweakTown has put forth an article wherein they claim to have received info from industry insiders regarding the upcoming Vega 56's performance. Remember that Vega 56 is the slightly cut-down version of the flagship Vega 64, counting with 56 next-generation compute units (NGCUs) instead of Vega 64's, well, 64. This means that while the Vega 64 has the full complement of 4,096 Stream processors, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 2048-bit wide 8 GB HBM2 memory pool offering 484 GB/s of bandwidth, Vega 56 makes do with 3,548 Stream processors,192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, the same 8 GB of HBM2 memory and a slightly lower memory bandwidth at 410 GB/s.
The Vega 56 has been announced to retail for about $399, or $499 with one of AMD's new (famous or infamous, depends on your mileage) Radeon Packs. The RX Vega 56 card was running on a system configured with an Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz, 16 GB of DDR4-3000 MHz RAM, and Windows 10 at 2560 x 1440 resolution.
The results in a number of popular games were as follows:
Battlefield 1 (Ultra settings): 95.4 FPS (GTX 1070: 72.2 FPS; 32% in favor of Vega 56)
Civilization 6 (Ultra settings, 4x MSAA): 85.1 FPS (GTX 1070: 72.2 FPS; 17% in favor of Vega 56)
DOOM (Ultra settings, 8x TSAA): 101.2 FPS (GTX 1070: 84.6 FPS; 20% in favor of Vega 56)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (High preset): 99.9 FPS (GTX 1070: 92.1 FPS; 8% in favor of Vega 56)
If these numbers ring true, this means NVIDIA's GTX 1070, whose average pricing stands at around $460, will have a much reduced value proposition compared to the RX Vega 56. The AMD contender (which did arrive a year after NVIDIA's Pascal-based cards) delivers around 20% better performance (at least in the admittedly sparse games line-up), while costing around 15% less in greenbacks. Coupled with a lower cost of entry for a FreeSync monitor, and the possibility for users to get even more value out of a particular Radeon Pack they're eyeing, this could potentially be a killer deal. However, I'd recommend you wait for independent, confirmed benchmarks and reviews in controlled environments. I dare to suggest you won't need to look much further than your favorite tech site on the internet for that, when the time comes.
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TweakTown
The Vega 56 has been announced to retail for about $399, or $499 with one of AMD's new (famous or infamous, depends on your mileage) Radeon Packs. The RX Vega 56 card was running on a system configured with an Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz, 16 GB of DDR4-3000 MHz RAM, and Windows 10 at 2560 x 1440 resolution.
Battlefield 1 (Ultra settings): 95.4 FPS (GTX 1070: 72.2 FPS; 32% in favor of Vega 56)
Civilization 6 (Ultra settings, 4x MSAA): 85.1 FPS (GTX 1070: 72.2 FPS; 17% in favor of Vega 56)
DOOM (Ultra settings, 8x TSAA): 101.2 FPS (GTX 1070: 84.6 FPS; 20% in favor of Vega 56)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (High preset): 99.9 FPS (GTX 1070: 92.1 FPS; 8% in favor of Vega 56)
If these numbers ring true, this means NVIDIA's GTX 1070, whose average pricing stands at around $460, will have a much reduced value proposition compared to the RX Vega 56. The AMD contender (which did arrive a year after NVIDIA's Pascal-based cards) delivers around 20% better performance (at least in the admittedly sparse games line-up), while costing around 15% less in greenbacks. Coupled with a lower cost of entry for a FreeSync monitor, and the possibility for users to get even more value out of a particular Radeon Pack they're eyeing, this could potentially be a killer deal. However, I'd recommend you wait for independent, confirmed benchmarks and reviews in controlled environments. I dare to suggest you won't need to look much further than your favorite tech site on the internet for that, when the time comes.
169 Comments on AMD RX Vega 56 Benchmarks Leaked - An (Unverified) GTX 1070 Killer
Sure it's still a 210W TDP card, but people don't realize this is max. If you fire up Radeon Chill, you'll drop consumption dramatically. It usually halves the consumption. And if you use Enhanced Sync, it'll be locked to screen refresh. Which means consumption will again drop, maybe not as significantly as with Chill, but still worth mentioning considering how everyone scares buyers with the max TDP numbers...
Battlefield and Doom numbers are pretty significant.
chill is not a perfect solution and won't really drop consumption that much for active gaming. plus, it is still working with a whitelist of games.
the numbers sound about right but should fit into 'trading blows with 1070' well enough. all the listed games have a tendency of running noticeably better on amd hardware.
And you're also completely ignoring that GTX 1070's MSRP is $349, i.e. $50 less than Vega 56, which is extremely fair considering the (supposed) relative performance of these cards - in fact I'd say the 1070 still wins on price/performance if these Vega 56 numbers are truthful. So calling Vega 56 a "GTX 1070 killer" is laughable.
The price of GTX 1070 cards has only been pushed up because of the cryptomining BS. Vega 56 is unlikely to offer a better hashrate-per-watt than GTX 1070, which means GTX 1070 prices will stay high and they will continue to be bought in volume by miners, whereas Vega 56 will be bought in much smaller quantities by gamers. So NVIDIA still wins in terms of the pure numbers game, and therefore in revenue.
You can't blame NVIDIA that they made a great card that is in such high demand, regardless of the reason, that it commands a nearly 25% price premium over its MSRP.
If this information is true then I like the Vega 56, we'll see :)
since right now I have a sexy Sapphire HD 7950 and my system became fit with that, I really don't care about the Vega 56's consumption.
as i have a GTX 1070 .... (more 526$ for me than 460 .... when i bought it ) i suspected that a Vega 56 would be a slight upgrade tho, as i can sell my 1070 close to the initial price .... thanks Nvidia, i can probably plan on a Vega 64 ...
ok it eats some more but ... well not that much important to me
too bad Vega pack will probably not be available where i live :laugh:
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/RX_580_Nitro_Plus/10.html
But yes, lower prices for a bit more performance is rarely a bad deal ;)