Sunday, August 20th 2017
ASUS Announces ROG STRIX Radeon RX Vega Series
ASUS today introduced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) STRIX Radeon RX Vega 64 O8G graphics card, among its first (and probably the first) custom-design RX Vega 64 to hit the markets (model: ROG-STRIX-RXVEGA64-O8G-GAMING). The card combines a custom-design PCB by ASUS, with the company's latest generation DirectCU III cooling solution the company deploys on its STRIX GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. The cooler features a heat-pipe direct-contact base, from which the heat-pipes pass through two aluminium fin-stacks on their two ends, which are ventilated by a trio of 100 mm spinners. The fans stay off when the GPU is idling. The cooler features RGB multi-color LED lighting along inserts on the cooler shroud, and an ROG logo on the back-plate.
Moving over to the sparsely populated PCB (thanks in part to AMD's HBM2 move), the card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, conditioning it for the GPU with a 13-phase VRM. The O8G variant features factory-overclocked speeds that are close to those of the RX Vega 64 Liquid Edition, although ASUS didn't specify them. There's a "non-O8G" variant that sticks to reference clock speeds, boosting to around 1495-1510 MHz. What ASUS is really selling here is better clock sustainability under load, lower noise, and zero idle-noise; besides all the ROG STRIX bells and whistles. The card also drives two 4-pin PWM case fans in-sync with the cards, like most ROG STRIX graphics cards from this generation. ASUS also rolled out the ROG STRIX RX Vega 56, which features the same exact PCB, and sticks to AMD reference speeds. The company didn't reveal pricing.
Moving over to the sparsely populated PCB (thanks in part to AMD's HBM2 move), the card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, conditioning it for the GPU with a 13-phase VRM. The O8G variant features factory-overclocked speeds that are close to those of the RX Vega 64 Liquid Edition, although ASUS didn't specify them. There's a "non-O8G" variant that sticks to reference clock speeds, boosting to around 1495-1510 MHz. What ASUS is really selling here is better clock sustainability under load, lower noise, and zero idle-noise; besides all the ROG STRIX bells and whistles. The card also drives two 4-pin PWM case fans in-sync with the cards, like most ROG STRIX graphics cards from this generation. ASUS also rolled out the ROG STRIX RX Vega 56, which features the same exact PCB, and sticks to AMD reference speeds. The company didn't reveal pricing.
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Wake up Nvidiot. This thing is selling out at $700, and it's because it is a compute monster that can also game very well.
www.primeabgb.com/?s=vega&post_type=product
Link:
www.computerbase.de/2017-08/asus-radeon-rx-vega-64-vorserie-test/
I do like how they finally connected VRM to the main heatsink, but I still don't get it why back of the GPU keeps getting exposed and not padded with thermal pads and covered by backplate? Is it because of the interposer which kinda insulates GPU and HBM2 from the back so thermal connection at the back wouldn't make much of an effect?
It's just a shame aftermarket models weren't launched with the reference ones like they did with RX580 (where they actually didn't even have reference ones afaik).
1 troll posts and,
2 rude replies.
Can't we all be civil?
FWIW, it's too expensive for what is it as a MSRP. As a card, if you don't want to buy a 1080ti (which you will be able to get for the same price if not cheaper) then sure, buy this.
The irony is, mining wise the 1080ti is no slouch (yes this is better) but the power consumption of the 1080ti is lower*, therefore reducing power bills (on the mining basis and where power comes into it). At it's price point, Vega 64 is not a good choice for a gaming card unless you must go with AMD.
* depending on what power option you choose which may also reduce Vega hash rate? But if you buy for mining, then that's different anyway. A Mining Device.
Also, AMd has no control on VEGA 64 prices, so it seems a deteriorative situation.
Anyone???
They rush out EVERY product launch they do. They rushed vega, threadripper and ryzen.
- Gaming is a lot better than some people realize. For instance if you play games like Fallout 4, BF1, and DEUS Ex like I do - it's firmly beating the 1080:
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It really does depend on the games this time around, and if you have a Freesync monitor Vega is an obvious choice over the 1080 or even the 1080 Ti. It also overclocks well for a newer card.