Wednesday, September 20th 2017

Custom-design Radeon RX Vega Cards by Mid-October

Still reeling under supply issues and overpricing, AMD's Radeon RX Vega line of graphics cards may finally be available in custom-design products from the company's AIB (add-in board) partners by mid-October, according to a Hardware.fr report. ASUS was the first to announce custom-design RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 graphics cards under its ROG Strix series, back in August. The cards were, however, nowhere to be found in the markets.

AIB partners will begin announcing their custom-design RX Vega series products in the coming weeks, with retail availability slated for mid-October. Radeon RX Vega 64 is currently available in three AMD-reference design SKUs, the standard reference-design, the premium "silver" air-cooled reference-design, which features a brushed aluminium cooler shroud and LED ornaments; and a more premium AIO liquid-cooled variant with higher clocks. The RX Vega 56 is available in vanilla standard reference-design.
Source: Hardware.fr
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43 Comments on Custom-design Radeon RX Vega Cards by Mid-October

#26
lewis007
You have to admit it is power hungry and expensive.
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#27
W1zzard
cucker tarlsonThanks for clarification. I wonder what makes your results so different. Guru3D shows 9% at 4K, the site I linked shows 10%, this video shows anywhere from no difference to 15%, which would maybe amount to 10% overall and fall in line with the other two. HardCOP /1440p only available/ - 10% as well. Your new test shows 22%, more than twice as big as the ones I quoted, and in line with the initial Pascal DOOM Vulkan performance on old drivers, where 1070 gets beat even by Fury X.
Probably different test scene. That video shows the game start which isn't that good a benchmark, not sure what the others use.
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#29
Casecutter
CasecutterDoes anyone know how many Vega chips AMD is contracted to supply Apple for their Mac stuff?
That's what thought... nobody wants recognize there's an elephant in the room!

Just like why the Tonga XT never showed, and 380X was not brought in until late. AMD is working to supply the corporate custom clients first, it provides for a known ROI.
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#30
cucker tarlson
W1zzardWe don't recycle results, all results have the same age. Last VGA rebench was around July time.
I'm gonna put a question mark under that statement.

then why is 1070Ti reference faster than 1080 reference ? And 1070Ti 30% faster than 1070 can't be right. Both 1070 and 1080 results are old.



You DO recycle results, I knew your results were off cause the moajorty of other reviews showed half the gap between 1080 an V64 then you reported.
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#31
W1zzard
As listed in the review set up page which you apparently didn't bother to check:

GTX 1070 Ti: 388.13 WHQL
GTX 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti: 388.00 WHQL
All RX Vega: 17.10.1 Beta
NVIDIA other cards: 384.76 WHQL
AMD other cards: Catalyst 17.6.2 Beta

I retested 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti and both Vegas before the review
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#32
cucker tarlson
1070 and 1080 got a driver boost in Vulkan far earlier than 388.00 came out. Guru 3D has 1070 beating Fury X in their review from August. 388.13 is a Wolfenstein II game ready driver.
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#33
nemesis.ie
I suppose if you want to be picky/get a retest we also need to use 17.11.1 for Vega as it ups the SoC clock to 1200MHz too.

I can understand W1zzard having to draw a line/pick a version at some point given the complexity of testing and the frequency of driver updates at the moment.

I suppose another option would be to have a "live benchmark" tab on the main page that "someone" continuously updates as many cards as possible with the newest drivers as time goes by?

That might actually be a cool feature ... "what cards are winning in your favourite game this week?" could be a thing. ;)
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#34
W1zzard
cucker tarlson1070 and 1080 got a driver boost in Vulkan far earlier than 388.00 came out. Guru 3D has 1070 beating Fury X in their review from August. 388.13 is a Wolfenstein II game ready driver.
Then all is good and I'm using the right drivers. Guru3D might be using a different test scene, test duration, maybe not warming up the card (thermal throttling)
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#35
cucker tarlson
Still, 30% between 1070 and 1070Ti is a weird result.
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#36
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
So much for this only xfx has one in the works...
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#38
nemesis.ie
A lot of very odd stuff/statements in that "review" ...
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#39
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
nemesis.ieA lot of very odd stuff/statements in that "review" ...
yeah and they don't even give you a board shot
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#40
EarthDog
Point is.. there is more than one. ;)
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#41
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
EarthDogPoint is.. there is more than one. ;)
Only a board shot compared to a reference design would determine it being custom.
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