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the Corsair one pro 10 atti fits some monstrous gaming hardware into a tiny PC with GPU and CPU liquid cooling and nvme SSD VR support and whisper quiet operation click the link in the description for more information excellent what's up guys and welcome to my second ever radeon RX vega review a couple days ago i benchmarked and overclocked to the vegas 56 and today i'll be doing the same with the vegas 64 the vegas 64 air cooled a non limited edition is theoretically 499 dollars retail which is the price I'll be using for comparison today so the nearest competition from Nvidia is the gtx to 1080 the vegas 56 retails for 399 again if you can find it but as for the vegas 64 that i'm actually testing today just FYI this is the brushed metal finish limited edition version that you can only get if you purchase a Radeon pack but the performance between this one and the 499 version should be the same so we can cross compare I will be using the same a testing setup that are used for the Vega 56 testbench includes an Intel Core i7 7700 K CPU at 4.8 years a gigabyte or SZ 270x gaming 7 motherboard a coarse rh1 sin 280 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler remember I have a 2 by 8 gig kits of Kingston HyperX predator ddr4 3200 memory running at Casa latency 16 and for storage I have the Windows 10 64-bit OS on an Intel 600 P Bevin and 12 gig nvme SSD and the games on an external SanDisk all four to one terabyte SSD connected via USB 3.0 power is provided by the courser HX 1000 thousand watt 80-plus platinum power spot i'm on an open test bed of course I need a GTX 1080 to compare to so I've chosen EVGA GTX 980 for the win I see x2 again I skipped the GTX 980 founders Edition for this manufacturer overclock EVGA card which peaks at 1974 megahertz under load anyone who's running a 1080 at founders Edition speeds is leaving performance on the table and there's no shortage of overclocking guides and pre overclocks models like this available since the cards been up for over a year already besides I overclocked the Vegas 64 too so I think that's pretty fair the GT X 1080 benchmarks are run with the latest GPU driver from Nvidia that's 3/8 5.2 eight now I'm using her info 64 and they launched a version of the AMD Radeon settings utility to monitor i over clocked the Vegas 64 with radion settings as well setting the frequency slider to plus 10% and maxing out the voltage at 1200 i bumped the 8 gigs of a tree and to memory from 945 to 1050 megahertz I set the same aggressive fan curves that I used Vegas 256 max we had a 4500 rpm and I set the power limit to plus 50% software worked a little bit more smoothly this time around the GPU was operating at 1792 megahertz at least as far as I could sell for benchmarks I'm including the Vegas 64 in turbo mode but otherwise it stocked the Vegas 64 with my overclock the EVGA GTX 980 the galaxy gtx 970 and the vegas 56 with the overclocked numbers from my launch date video let's start off with 3d mark firestrike extreme and here we can see the vegas 64 as well as overclock coming with some pretty good scores the GTX 980 kind of slips in at rates between them at least when it comes to the overall score moving over to firestrike ultra we can see pretty similar results the Vegas 64 especially overclocked is still winning although they attend 80 is close behind moving over to 3d mark times by they DirectX 12 test and here we can see the GTX 1080 has come roaring back and the graphics core is beating the Vegas 64 even while overclocked finally we have 3d mark VR mark Blue Room a VR specific test and here again the 1080 performed very well beating the Vegas 64 in both stock and overclocked speeds let's move into some actual games so starting with for honor at 1920 by 1080 here again we can see the GTX 1080 is doing a really good job beating out to the Vegas 64 even while overclocked I also want to point out the Vegas 64 non overclocked if getting crept up on by the Vega 56 well overclocked moving over to 2560 by 1440 we can see more the same although the Vegas 64 does make up a bit more ground while overclocked and then finally at 4k the 1080 still hanging on to that lead although just barely let's move on to GTA 5 this was a benchmark that I was surprised Andy didn't actually provide numbers for and it's kind of obvious why now because this is a title where the Vega has seemingly more of a disadvantage compared to the 1080 than it does in other titles we see a 20 plus or more frame rates lead at 1920 by 1080 we're seeing a 15 to 20 frames per second lead even over Vegas 64 overclocked at 2560 by 1440 and we move up to 4k the numbers get a little bit smaller so the margins seem a little bit shorter but still a 10 FPS lead on the Vegas 64 overclocked moving on to overwatch a very fun game to play and at 1080 I'm trying to focus on some high frame rate options for people who make you playing at 1080 on high frame rate monitors we can see that all the cards here actually able to achieve pretty high frame rates and this is a 100% render scaling so you could get even better than this thanks to over watch's graphics options and how they can be moved around but again we're seeing the 1080 overall maintaining a higher frame rate moving up to 2560 by 1440 again we see a bit of a lead it does narrow a little bit I think the Vega 64 OC has a bit of a sweet spot here when it comes to the 1440 resolution but then we move over to 3840 by 2160 we see the lead shrink even more although the GTX 1080 is still winning by just a couple frames per second our next game is Metro last light still a very difficult game to run and at 1080 we can see it's a little bit more of a battle although the GTX 1080 does win yet again pulling ahead with a a vert frame rate of 154 frames per second versus the Vega 64 is 150 at 2560 by 1440 again we see the Vega 64 overclocked come a little bit closer to the GTX 1080 but still fallen away by about 5 frames per second and then at 3840 by 2160 or 4k more the same it's just very difficult for the Vega 64 to keep up with the 1080 especially since I'm using a manufacturer overclocked version my last two titles are DirectX 12 titles starting with rise of the Tomb Raider at 1920 by 1080 we see vgt X 1080 winning again with an average frame rate of a hundred and twenty six point seven maintaining a very nice minimum frame rate there as well 2560 by 1440 the gtx infinity wins with an average frame rate of eighty 6.9 compared to the vega 64 OCS seventy seven point five and then at 4k 3840 by 2160 the gtx 1080 still wins although again by just a point or point and a half forty five point four average frames per second versus the vega 64 OCS four and our finals has civilization 6 in DirectX 12 mode at 1920 by 1080 all the cards coming within about one frame per second of each other so a bit of a wash here but about 88 or 89 frames per second a 2560 by 1440 again we're in the 86 to 89 frames per second range although you could say the 1080 wins since it did have the highest score and finally at 4k 3840 by 2160 the Vega 64 OC comes out with the win so there it is there's its big crowning achievement there seventy seven point four frames per second compared to the GTX 1080s seventy three point eight so if you like 56 at a high resolution apparently the Vega 64 is the card for you now as was the case with the Vega 56 with the Vega 64 we must look at power draw as well as performance numbers because that is an important part of the equation Vega in general actually has a lot of cool features for maximizing power efficiency and I am using none of them in favor of getting the most performance possible of the cards so please bear that in mind unfortunately though just like the Vega 56 the power consumption story is not favorable for the Vega 64 and the GTX 1080 is just running much more efficiently as for temperatures the EVGA GTX 1080 has the benefit of a third party cooler which does give it an advantage here so bear that in mind the Vega 64 cards got up into the 80s and overclocking only made things a bit warmer from there and I'm taking a look at the frequencies these cards are running at Vega 64 impressed me by remaining quite stable up to 1792 megahertz this actually gave me a lot of hope for future third-party designs as well as water cooling options but balancing high frequencies with power draw will continue to be a challenge for this GPU so now that my initial round of Vega testing is complete I think I have a pretty good handle on the performance expectations of people should have the Vegas 56 is a very nice counter to the gtx 1070 I'll be in a bit late while the Vega 64 faces a tougher challenge against the GTX 1080 in pretty much every test I ran apart from civics and a couple of those synthetics the Vega 64 falls behind the GTX 1080 that's even while overclocked and while drawing more power to push fewer frames if I look at silver linings though I think there are a few things that should be pointed out first off monitors there's a ton of free sync monitors that are way more affordable than Nvidia g-sync alternatives and now that they've actually some good GPUs that can actually push frame rates on them like this asus mg279q by 1440 hundred and forty four hertz IPS retakes monitor video coming soon and there is also some next-level technology built into these cards so check the description for some links to full articles that goes over stuff like the high bandwidth cache controller empire savings features that can keep a Vega running cool and quiet 24/7 if you're willing to give up a little performance there's also the fine wine thing the idea that AMD GPUs tend to gain more performance over time as they age and drivers mature which is worth a mention I suppose but I hesitate to call that a selling point speculative and more not sure is going to happen this generation as well ultimately there's a niche audience of free sync monitor having closed headphone wearing gamers who live in temperate climates with excess chief renewable electricity who are really really excited that Vegas finally out and for the rest of us the Vegas 56 is a very nice alternative to the GTX 970 and I'm sure we're going to hear more from Vegas 64 when third-party designs launch so thank you guys so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel and turn on those notifications suits you don't want to miss my next video hit the thumbs up button on your way out if you enjoyed this one and thanks for watching as always we'll see you guys next time