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What’s ultimately more fascinating about AMD’s new Vega platform is its ability to virtually convert your system memory into video memory. With the High Bandwidth Cache Controller, we effectively gave our Vega 64 an additional four gigabytes of graphics memory to run games at even higher frame rates.ĪMD is able to do this thanks because it introduced a new form of scalable HBM2 video memory. Meanwhile, AMD throws more stream processors and overall compute power at the problem. To get here, both parts take interestingly different paths, with Nvidia focusing on faster clock speeds on the GPU and memory. Overall, we’d say the Nvidia GTX 1080 and AMD Vega 64 are on par with each other when it comes to playing games. So, you’ll likely be able to get higher frame rates with this card if you don’t mind a few extra jagged polygons. Meanwhile, we had to pump up the Multisampling Anti-Aliasing to a more demanding, 4x level to get the same level of smoothing with the Vega 64. Unfortunately, the Vega 64 couldn’t win every fight, as the GTX 1080 pulls ahead in GTA V, thanks to enabling a more efficient form of Temporal Anti-Aliasing. AMD’s new flagship GPU also keeps in step with the Nvidia GTX 1080 in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, with even better minimum frame rates at 4K. In terms of gaming performance, the Vega 64 plays real-time strategy games, like Total War: Warhammer, at nearly equal average and minimum frame rates. We’ll partially chalk this one up to Superposition not yet supporting the latest DirectX 12 version. One interesting outlier was this card’s lackluster performance with the Uniengine Superposition DirectX tests when AMD claims Vega is the best platform for the API.
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The AMD Vega 64 slayed the Nvidia GTX 1080 in almost all of our synthetic benchmarks – pulling significantly ahead in some of the 3DMark tests. It’s not the most economical or quiet performance mode but, while gaming, you want the most performance out of your components.
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Storage: 400GB Intel 750 Series U.2 SSD (NVMe PCI 3.0 x4)Ĭooling: Corsair Hydro Series H115i extreme liquid coolerįor the purposes of our testing, we set the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 on its Turbo Mode, which elevates the graphics card into a higher power profile that eats up 30~ more watts of electricity and ramps up the fans for better performance. RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB (DDR4 3,200MHz)