Tuesday, November 21st 2017
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil Available Soon, Overclocked, £590
It seems our wait for custom editions of AMD's RX Vega graphics cards is coming to an end. "Better late than never" is what they always say; however, AMD and its AIB partners have to know that this kind of wait can sap customer enthusiasm for a product. It's not enough that customers waited around two years for Vega to come to fruition; we've also had to wait some additional months (not weeks), for an actual custom-design graphics card. Vega's exotic design with HBM2 memory means that these graphics cards' availability would fall prey not only to Vega GPU yields, but also to HBM2 memory availability.
Additionally, Vega has been vulnerable to packaging of HBM2 and the GPU as well, with various factories providing different levels of quality in the finished product. This introduced some unexpected variance in the finished products - making the creation of cooling designs that could cope with all the design discrepancies more difficult.
That slight introduction aside, it seems that PowerColor's Red Devil RX Vega 64 is coming to customers' hands soon, with a factory overclock that almost equals the Liquid edition AMD introduced in Vega's launch - the PowerColor Red Devil should deliver stable 1607 MHz clocks against the Liquid Cooled edition's 1677 MHz. To cool Vega's renowned power-hungry chops, and limit instances of throttling under heavy thermal loads, the graphics card has been engineered with a triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solutions, and also features a triple-BIOS implementation. The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil should be in stores early December - but it's already up for pre-orders over at Overclockers.uk for a steep £590. here's hoping this isn't just a launch promotion as well...
Sources:
Overclockers.co.uk, via Videocardz
Additionally, Vega has been vulnerable to packaging of HBM2 and the GPU as well, with various factories providing different levels of quality in the finished product. This introduced some unexpected variance in the finished products - making the creation of cooling designs that could cope with all the design discrepancies more difficult.
36 Comments on PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil Available Soon, Overclocked, £590
60 MHz overclock over reference...Proper 1080Ti-s start at £670 on the same site. £80/90€ difference towards that.
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As far as Vega goes, based on my time with Vega 64 reference, thermal throttling really is not that big of an issue. It is the easiest problem to solve anyway. Power and voltage limits are far more restrictive.
This is so good it just has to be fattening.
Its a cool looking card, but as usual a bit tardy to the party on multiple fronts (IE Vega being late to adequately challenge the 1080/1070 and now being late months after launch). I think Radeon needs to take a strong look at itself and rework their marketing and strategies on their cards in general. I think they could start by just forgoing much on the reference model front and just handing it to OEM's early to let them have these cards on ready on launch day and then let them come out at the same time.
But no , it's AMD .Those pieces of shit :roll:
What a bloody joke your comment is , I can't even take you seriously.
Trolling or not I'm yet to hear a valid reason why one would choose a Vega 64 over the competition for gaming.
By the way welcome to the ignore list.
GTX 1080 500 bucks + 700 bucks for a Gsync monitor. That's 1200 bucks.
Vega 64 custom (eg this one) 600 bucks + 500 bucks for a Freesync monitor = 1100 bucks.
And Vega 64 custom is faster too and new games/DX12 games show better scaling on Vega than on Pascal architecture. This is all fact btw, yes the price difference between Gsync and Freesync too.
The only downside to buying Radeon is power consumption as always. If you don't care about that, it's a fairly easy decision. Another possibility is, if someone doesn't care about Freesync/Gsync, then it's basically 500 vs. 600 on the GPU, that's to be decided on the games he plays. If he plays games where AMD is showing better performance it's Vega, if not, then 1080. I'm gonna admit, without the Freesync / Gsync price difference, AMD is looking pretty much bad atm. you have to be a fan to buy AMD if you're not going for Freesync, unless you bet on future performance, which is always a gamble. IMO, Vega 64 is better long term and Freesync is the better product compared to Gsync, due to prices. That said, I'm a 1080 owner myself.
DX12/Vulkan/new games doing better on Vega is largely wishful thinking. There are a few highly optimized examples (Wolfenstein II, that utilizes Vega-specific features) but by and large Vega 64 is neck to neck with GTX1080.