The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on August 14, 2017 9:00 AM ESTAshes of the Singularity: Escalation
A veteran from our 2016 game list, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation continues to be the DirectX 12 trailblazer, with developer Oxide Games tailoring and designing the Nitrous Engine around such low-level APIs. Ashes remains fresh for us in many ways: Escalation was released as a standalone expansion in November 2016 and was eventually merged into the base game in February 2017, while August 2017's v2.4 brought Vulkan support. Of all of the games in our benchmark suite, this is the game making the best use of DirectX 12’s various features, from asynchronous compute to multi-threaded work submission and high batch counts. While what we see can’t be extrapolated to all DirectX 12 games, it gives us a very interesting look at what we might expect in the future.
Settings and methodology remain identical from its usage in the 2016 GPU suite.
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Lolimaster - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
RXVega56 offwers a damn good value, smashing the 1070 for $100 less-Da W - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Think my Haswell + 780 rig is closing to retirement. A Vega 56 + Ryzen 1700X combo and a giant screen looks a good replacement.thartist - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
The 1700X won't do any better for gaming if that's what you care about, but the card surely will.Lolimaster - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
4c/8t extra to not care about cpu for a long time on top of being to actually do productivity things while gaming.Da W - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
Actually i want a workhorse that can ALSO game fro time to time. What kids do to a life.......tipoo - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
There's a cryptocurrency specific ISA addition, eh. People wanting it for graphics may hate it, but this may see huge demand from miners.extide - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Yeah, noticed that one too, heh.NeonFlak - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
So, after reading this review I'm not sure what the point is of the Vega 64 for $100 more than the Vega 56.DanNeely - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
The same thing as the 1080 over the 1070 in Nvidia land; which has a similar price/power/performance tradeoff. It's the fully enabled higher clock speed version for people willing to pay a premium for higher performance and who're less concerned about power/dollar efficiency.Jumangi - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Not with its performance and terrible power/heat it does. The Vega 56 is a solid competitor to the 1070 but the 64 does very poorly against the 1080.