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 ESTTotal War: Warhammer
The last game in our lineup is Total War: Warhammer, a DX11 game that received official DX12 support a couple months after launch. While DX12 is still marked as beta, Warhammer was to some extent developed with DX12 in mind, with preview builds showcasing DX12 performance.
The built-in benchmark was used with Ultra settings without alterations.
While the DX12 render path was used for AMD cards, there appear to be some oddities with 1080p performance. As mentioned earlier, we'd like to use the best performing API for a given card; in this case, while there was improved performance at higher resolutions, we noticed a potential regression in 1080p performance. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we weren't able to investigate further; like Dawn of War III, it's possible Warhammer at 1080p was CPU-bound as well..
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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.