The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright

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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.