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so M DS Radeon graphics division have finally released their rx Vegas series gratis cards this here being the 56 Edition which is rumored to come in at 399 dollars MSRP however due to ongoing supply and demand issues and lots of different rumors going around I will be basing my conclusion on two different sets of MSRP s both 399 and 499 as well as that I'll be comparing it against the gtx 1070 which i believe is its main competitor and also a lot of you guys on twitter asked me to not only overclock and do the results overclocked as well as stock but also under vault this card and do a little bit of tests with that so i'm gonna be doing all three for you guys and we're gonna see what's cooking up in yes city so here it is here in the flesh this is Vega 56 this is the black version I believe in the 64 Edition you can get a limited edition and also a water-cooled version though this is the reference cooler and as you guys know it will push a lot of air out of the case though it can get very loud and this one's no different actually it is a little bit different I believe it's the loudest cooler I have heard to date and on that note it is also one of the most powerful coolers I've ever seen for a reference cooler this thing can blow some serious air I'll let you guys take a quick listen and a quick test however I know you guys came here to see the bench master today I'm gonna be comparing this against the EXO C sniper from gal axe and with the sniper it does come overclocked out of the box however in Australia Galax sells some of the best value for money and video graphics cards out there which come in cheaper than the founders Edition cards which I'm sure a lot of people are going to be buying a custom model if they can considering they're usually cheaper and they perform better and also they remain quieter in regards to an adding board partner cut on an Rx Vega I'm not too certain yet but with that said let's roll those benchmarks where I compare both stock and overclocked settings to give you guys a better feel of what the numbers will present if you want to do either roll with these cards so moving on into the first benchmark we've got doom at 1440p in Volk and this is on ultra settings and all the games here will be at 4040 PR the very high ultra settings and we're moving into arcade mode on a level that I can just replicate these settings you can see the vague of 56 on the balance mode which is essentially out of the box settings score 109 fps beating the 1070 out of the box don't want overclocked both these graphics cards to 1070 did pull ahead by quite a little bit against the balance mode however when we overclocked vega 56 that then pulled ahead of the 1070 overclocked one thing about the vega 56 over clocks is they use of substantial amount more power and we'll see that soon at the end of these benchmarks the moving on to the next game we've got here f1 2016 and in this benchmark AMD did score a victory with the vega 56 balanced profile beating out the 1070 galaxy by one FPS and then overclock we saw similar results with the vega 56 overclock being the 1070 yet again then moving on into Far Cry primal we yet again see that the vega 56 card did pull ahead of the 1070 with a 70 vs 74 on the other clock settings and 67 vs 65 with the out-of-the-box settings Grand Theft Auto 5 however was where things turn around for the green team with the gtx 1070 both OC and no no C profiles during a victory over both balanced profile and the overclocked settings on Vega 56 our Vega 56 overclocked settings did have a sizable gain over the balance profiles in this particular game and old but not forgotten title is Crysis 3 and even to this date it is still such a very demanding title 1440p very high settings with Vega 56 overclocked scoring the slight victory over the gtx 1070 overclocked however out of the box settings the victory does go to the gtx 1070 if you're one of those people who hates getting outside in the real world and getting dirty then dirt for may be of interest to you and sitting behind a monitor here you can get good frame rates on vega 56 OC with 115 average FPS and even the balanced profile out of the box did score a victory over the gtx 1070 both OC and non OC profiles next up here we've got deus ex man king divided and this is DX 12 1440p very high settings vega 56 OC did score the victory here in the balance profile did score a slight victory over the out-of-the-box settings for the gtx 1070 then the overclocked a mode of course did give a little bit of a burst of the 1070 though not as much as Vega 56 moving on into the very popular player unknowns battlegrounds 300 seconds at the ruins 1440p ultra we saw that the gtx 1070 OC and non OC profiles did score victories over OC and balanced / falls on the AMD graphics card however it is important to know that I did test this as well on the latest driver for the AMD Crimson drivers so this was the 18 point to which I believe did bring optimizations for AMD graphics cards on pub G so it still does lose out to Nvidia graphics cards on this game by quite a bit especially considering this Vega 56 overclocked is very aggressive so classes the division is a very consistent benchmarking we saw that the vega 56 out of the box did score slight victory over 1070 out of the box and overclocked settings did show that as well then the last game we have up here is battlefield 1 1440p ultra settings vega 56 out of the box did score a little bit of the victory over the GTS 1070 even when it was overclocked as well they scored similar numbers and of course when you overclocked vega 56 that's when its performance really came out and it got some pretty high figures with 108 FP yes moving under some alternate benchmarks out of the box the gtx 1070 got around 68 degrees there when we get the fan speeds up to 80% which is still very quiet on this car by the way let you guys take a quick listen let's go to 62 degrees so it was staying very cool when we move over to Vega of the 56 the balance profile did score pretty well I mean it scored very low noise I'll let you take a listen and that went up to 74 degrees the Vega 56 OC of course that fan it just ramps up and it does do a very good job of cooling coming in at 65 degrees and now moving on into power consumption in the heaven benchmark 455 watts out of the wall this is Vega 56 overclocked this is on both the HBM memory and the core itself I got 8.5 percent extra out of the core and I got I believe the memory up to nine hundred and thirty five megahertz on the HBM to the balanced profile score 321 watts so it was pretty good and then the gtx 1070 of course overclocked scored 295 watts and 274 was this is total system power draw as well on the 7900 X that I use for benchmarking then when we take all the different power consumption profiles and then measure them up against each other you can see that the out of the box profiles is the balanced mode it's probably the best way to go I mean out of the box if you guys don't really want to tune anything the turbo mode does use an extra around 30 watts however you don't get that big of a performance jump from turbo over balanced and power savings didn't really save that much either oh this is on the 56 I've heard it's different however for Vegas 64 though with the OSI tune this is a very interesting overclock because here I raise the memory speeds and it did make a significant difference in performance as we saw in the benchmarks however when I dropped the core down itself and undertood that we managed to save around 31 watts and still get very high performance figures they pulled out the last benchmark here we've got battlefield one again with all the different profiles on Vega see there the turbo mode for the extra power it uses up really and worth it over balance mode of course the overclock modes themselves for the extra power draw aren't worth it either however if you are a water cooling enthusiast and you do want to put this thing under water you will be able to extract good performance figures out of Vega if that's what you wish to do so there it is all the benchmarks it shows that Vega 56 can definitely perform and this is pretty much the infant drivers for this grabs card things will get a little bit better over time I'm sure but one thing I will say is that out of the box this thing really is nothing special especially compared to the 1070 and keep in mind though the 1070 of course is overclock down at the Box compared to a reference card but that's what people are buying at the moment that still doesn't answer the question of which should you get Vega 56 or the gtx 1070 and really with the current cryptocurrency mining boon on I would get whatever's cheapest at the time this does do a pretty good job of coming in and being a competitive card however as we saw with the power consumption figures it still uses more power out of the box than a gtx 1070 does when it's overclocked and the overclocked 1070 figures did score better and this thing did out of the box so i would recommend if you guys just want to get a gratis card put it in your computer then the 1070 is probably the better buy at the time though if you're an enthusiast and you can definitely keep this thing under wraps you've got good case ventilation you're going to put a water block on it then vega 56 is definitely going to be a lot of fun for you or of course if you're in the market day at a gratis card and couple it with a free sink monitor and Vega 56 is again a good proposition though I will say a $399 if you can pick this card up with that price it will be a good buy though it 499 dollars I just don't see many people buying as then you start to get into GT X 1080 territory and that thing will put up a fight and do so whilst using a lot less power than this thing will especially when this is overclocked though the adding board partners do remain to be seen what they can do also graphic driver updates I am looking forward to those so coming back and revisiting this in about three months will be a very interesting case there was it stands now Vega 56 is also probably the card to get the Vega lineup I believe those extra stream processes won't do a whole lot in terms of performances this thing was limited by the HBM to memory speeds by quite a lot and also a big shout-out to gamers Nexus who helped me confirm that this graphics card was indeed a Vega 56 and not a 64 is when I first got it there was no labeling at all so I didn't know what graphics card it was and then of course I looked up in gpu-z and it said it had over 4,000 stream processors which was 64 but then Steve helped us test out the numbers and make sure that it was actually a 56 by the numbers that I was getting out in fire strike and the GPU scores so I'll put his channel in the link in the description below so big thank you for that also a lot of people were talking about under vaulting this card and getting the most out of it I didn't have a lot of success as opposed to others who did I believe get some sizeable drops in power consumption and they did get relatively the same performance as I said before in the benchmarks I managed to drop the core to around about fifteen hundred and thirty two megahertz I managed to get the millivolts down to 1080 and at those speeds it was performing pretty close to the max overclock settings and I did save around 30 watts so there is some advantages of course 2 under vaulting on this card and getting that best tuned scenario and it will save you some power savings on the power bill and of course in turn saving heat in your case saving heat on the cooler so it is worth doing if you're on Vega 2 under vault if you're overclocking the HBM to memory but what about the three profiles out of the box the turbo the power save and the balance well none of those three profiles impress me at all in fact the fan curve profiles were very conservative to the point where I believe this card was throttling in some of the benchmarks I was doing too so I'd like to see that get fixed because as it stands out of the box if you guys want to use this thing just buy it and use it I'd much rather recommend getting a gtx 1070 as it stands it performs better and more consistently what I did custom OC it though did perform really well however it was very noisy and also some last-minute things this Radeon logo does light up in the dark you've also got two 8 pin connectors with GPU tech indicators the can be either turned off or switched to a blue color and then there's a switch here which I believe is normal and uber mode though for me it did absolutely nothing even when I resented the computer I just got nothing out of this switch so yeah I mean must just be the model hey guys hope you enjoy today's Vega 56 review and if you did them sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below if this was in a perfect world $399 and the gtx 1070 was three hundred and seventy nine dollars and you can pick them up which would you pick up and why love reading your comments as always and i'll catch you in another tech video very soon and also sorry that I didn't make a tech video in a while I actually came down with him flew Ensor and that's probably why I sound different in this video - this one actually took me a long-term record - because I was like bed bound for four days and I'm still recovering now so yeah that's that but anyway I'll catch you guys next time bye