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today's video was brought to you in part by a Hanson robotics alright tech fans it's the time you have been waiting for that's right two performance cores of the rx 64 and 56 Vega cards we've got them here in-house so let's first check out those cards what they look like let's check out the specs the performance and see at the end of the day if they're worth your hard earned cash let's go one thing I want to mention right off the bat is that the reference 64 and 56 cards look totally identical a lot of people made comments on my unboxing videos saying why didn't get their silver shredded one well the silver shredded one that's just a special edition card these are actually the standard reference cards on the front you guys can see it's a completely black shroud covering the entire card there's a single blower style fan with the R logo on it and at the top of the card you guys see once again the Radeon name spinning the card around to the rear you guys can see there's absolutely nothing there just the shroud still covering it then we'll go ahead we'll take a look at the top of the card we'll spin it around you guys can see it easily says the Radeon name again there are two eight pin power connectors on both cards now this is where the cards differ a little bit and we'll get to that in just a minute now taking a look at the top of the card the first thing you guys are going to notice that up on top there's a little switch now this is the bio switch and what's really cool is you can set up to three different profiles inside of the control panel underneath that we see the Radeon name once again and both cards feature two 8-pin connectors now the difference is though is that the 64 card requires 295 watts and the 56 card requires 210 watts on the back of the card you guys can see they have a pretty nice heat shield on there and they also have the GPU being open so that it can be air cooled as well as cooled by the fan on top over on the right you see a little on and off button and this also changes the color of the lights you can change it between red and blue and right below the lights which is something called GPU tech and what this does this shows you by a light how much power the card is using and taking a look at the cards connections both cards feature three display ports and a single HDMI port underneath the hood both cards of the Vega 10 series and they're both 40 nanometer process now the transistor count on the RX Bega 64 is 12.5 billion that's exact the same on the 56 now this next spec I think this is exactly how they named their cars because the RX Vega 64 features 64 compute units and the 56 features obviously 56 now as far as stream processors go the 64 has 4096 and the 56 has 3584 the base GPU clock on the 64 is twelve hundred and seventy-four megahertz and the base clock on the fifty six is eleven hundred and fifty-six megahertz the boost clock on the sixty-four is fifteen forty six megahertz and the boost on the Vega 56 is fourteen hundred and seventy one megahertz the memory bandwidth is also a little different on the Vega 64 we see four hundred eighty four gigabytes a second and on the fifty six we see four hundred and ten gigabytes a second peak a single precision performance on the 64 is up to twelve point seven teraflops and on the fifty six it's up to ten point five teraflops both cards feature 256 texture units both cards also feature 64 ops the memory interface on both cards is also identical at 2048 bits all right so that's what the cards look like and all their features now let's talk about some of the software features that come with Vega frame rate target control or F RTC is a Radeon software feature meant to ensure that your graphics card isn't consuming power in ways that will necessarily contribute to better gameplay F RTC allows the user to set a maximum frame rate the game shouldn't ever exceed you can enable the F RTC and choose the frame rate cap for each game in the gaming section of the Radeon software control panel users may choose to use F RTC in different ways depending on their preference for instance a particularly eco-conscious gamer mix decide to memorize power draw and noise by choosing a 60 frame per second cap to correspond with his or hers displays 60 Hertz refresh rate this makes sure that no more frames are rendered than necessary to update to display in each cycle meanwhile an esport enthusiast might choose a capital 120 FPS on a 60 Hertz display in order to maintain quick response times and some users may not wish to impose any performance limits on their GPUs at all however F RTC is there if you want to use it another feature is Radeon chill Radeon chill takes GPU power savings a step beyond a four TC by adopting a dynamic approach to ingame power management Riddhi unchill offers users inputs in order to understand when fast action is taking place on screen and when it isn't when there's not too much action and the users view it's largely static chill reduces frame rates in order to save power and hopefully this will be done without the game ever noticing anything is happening as soon as the key press or mouse input starts the action radion chill ramps up the frame rates instantaneously to keep gameplay feeling fluid some of the biggest titles in eSports including dota 2 league of legends and overwatch are ideal candidates to play with Radeon chill Radeon chill also pairs well with AMD freesync technology you may want to try tuning your favorite games Radeon chill minimum and maximum FPAA rates to correspond to your displays refresh rate for instance if your display can range from 30 to 90 Hertz try setting the Radeon shield minimum to 30 frames per second and the maximum at 90 frames per second Radeon shows minimum and maximum frames per second range is set to 40 to 144 Hertz by default for most gaming titles and if you want to navigate through different game profiles you can check these out in the gaming tab another feature of the AMD Vega is enhanced sync and hand sync is a new vsync mode that seeks to combine the optimal display refreshing behaviors for multiple situations when the game's framerate exceeds this place peak refresh rate enhancing doesn't limit the game's performance instead enhance sync shows the most recently completed frame on each display interval this reduces input lag without introducing the usual tearing art effects commonly vsync is disabled another feature with Vega is HB CC or the high bandwidth cache controller Radeon rx Vega cards are capable of using their advanced memory subsystems to benefit gaming in a unique fashion the first wave of radian rxt eiga cards all ship with 8 gigabytes of HBM to a high bandwidth cache which is enough local GPU memory to satisfy the requirements of virtually all today's most visually demanding games however things change and game requirements tend to grow over time the high bandwidth cache controller is a forward-looking option built into the Radeon software control panel that lets you turn on the HPCC capability built into all Vega GPUs when enabled feature will allocate a portion of the host systems main memory for the GPU to use the amount of memory used is selectable via a slider any system memory devoted to H BCC will be paired with rx Vegas cards onboard memory to create a total HB CC allocation for instance four gigabytes of system memory plus the RX Vega cards eight gigabytes of HP m2 would result in a total pool of 12 gigabytes of graphic memory all right tech bands real quick before we jump into our test system in the scores let's check out a word from today's sponsor Hanson robotics professor Einstein is an amazing expressive and playful robot that can teach you science and even train your brain not only as Professor Einstein a learning tool he can take a walk he can smile he can point he can even go crazy and turn his head and blink and when you connect to the cloud he can talk to you about science math people and 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in it however the main thing that we change was the CPU it used to have a 700 X we put in 1800 X in it and we also put a really nice liquid cooler and that will have a shot of it so you guys can check it out now one thing of note before we actually jump into the testing is that AMD recommends these cards to be rented 1440 ultra-wide which means at 34 40 by 1440 and if you use vsync at 144 monitor you'll be good to go we tested at 1440 and we tested it 4k and with that said let's jump into the benchmark song let's rock out do you do now as far as the tents go you guys can see that the 1080i is running the hottest out of the bunch you guys can see the RX Vegas 64 running at 85 Celsius and the second hottest of the bunch now the 1070 which is pretty much the direct competition to the 56 it ran at 83 Celsius but you guys can see that Vega 56 rented amazing 77 Celsius so even though it actually takes 60 more watts of power it actually runs cooler alright Tech fans so there you guys have it everything you need to know about the brand new AMD rx Vega 64 and 56 video cards now right off the bat I want to tell you guys that the 56 is pretty much geared to be competing with the 1070 and you guys can see in the scores that pretty much across the board that this thing competes and beats it in almost every case and it's also a little bit cheaper actually about 50 dollars cheaper so if we're going to do a price comparison this car would actually definitely win against the 1070 at this time point now the 64 comes to market and a hundred more dollars and to be quite honest with you if I was going to spend my money I would probably buy the 56 the difference between the two cards isn't that great to me to be paying that extra money so at the end of the day if you're really looking to get a great card from AMD that's not going to break the bank it's not like five hundred six hundred dollars it's right in that middle spot of about four hundred dollars which is quite fair I think for the stuff that it does now the only caveat however and some people are going to bitch about this I know is that the 56 does take 60 more watts being at 210 watts that you need for power requirements and the 1070 only takes 150 so that's like the biggest factor in your world then you may want to consider that but beyond that as far as outright scores go and you guys saw the temperature it actually runs cooler and faster in most instances than the 1070 and even in some cases it's keeping up with the 10 H depending on the game now the 64 in the other hand it's a little bit faster like I said I mean if you're looking for great performance you don't want to buy a liquid-cooled card or you don't want to buy that special edition card this might be the sweet spot for you now one thing I also want to mention that AMD really pushes that the best that you're going to get is on a free sink 144 Hertz monitor so if you can get your hands on one of those you'll get the absolute best gaming experience across the board now if you just have a regular monitor it'll still be fine actually we did all of our testing on a regular monitor I meant took the free sink monitor from the beginning but we started testing I was like whoa we're halfway done that's not the biggest you know deal in the world anyways but you guys can see these cards run very well no they're not the 1080 TI killer but also they don't cost anywhere near as much as a 1080i 1080 is are about six to seven hundred dollars depending on who you buy it from these cards are well below that at $4.99 that's a good price for the 64 but for me the sweet spot is definitely the AMD rx 56 and like usual download like button hope you guys liked this video we'll have more information and links to all the parts in our build i'm network you've been watching taken tomorrow Vega it's finally here there are the numbers let me know in the poll will you buy this card