I bought an RX VEGA 56 Graphics Card in 2023

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In this video we're looking back at the AMD Radeon RX VEGA 56. This $400 GPU from 2017 was positioned to take on the Nvidia GTX 1070 and in a lot of cases, it won. How is it holding up today, and is it worth it?
0:00 Introduction, Noise and the MSI Air Boost Vega 56
1:18 Cyberpunk 2077, a Disappointing Start
2:21 Fortnite
2:58 Red Dead Redemption 2
3:30 Elden Ring
4:03 Forza Horizon 5
4:26 The Last of Us
5:12 Hogwarts Legacy
5:46 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
6:13 Halo Infinite
6:39 The Witcher 3 Next Gen
7:19 Grand Theft Auto V
7:56 Call of Duty MW2 and Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching :)

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  • @TheJAADF
    @TheJAADF11 ай бұрын

    Undervolting is a must with these cards. You can get higher performance because of low power limits

  • @wile123456

    @wile123456

    11 ай бұрын

    Yep these cards are so terribly tuned by deafult. The only gpus i know where LOWERING the voltage gives you more performance? Also the memory clock is far too low by deafult. My card can get ane xtra 120 MHz over the deafult 800, but many people can get to 1000 MHz on the HBM

  • @brayannexon4613

    @brayannexon4613

    11 ай бұрын

    That plus vega 64 vbios on a vega 56 and you are in business.

  • @blunderingfool

    @blunderingfool

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@wile123456I won the lottery in that regard, got one of the 1ghz memory clock cards. Works great with the vega64 bios.

  • @RidinSpinners36

    @RidinSpinners36

    11 ай бұрын

    @@blunderingfool i could get to 985mhz on my red devil vega 56

  • @blunderingfool

    @blunderingfool

    11 ай бұрын

    @@RidinSpinners36 Any luck with the Vega 64 bios or is your card not dual-bios compatible?

  • @tomvandongen8075
    @tomvandongen807511 ай бұрын

    I have this exact card! It's not that bad; I tell myself the noise is just reminding me how hard it's working :D

  • @kyles8524

    @kyles8524

    11 ай бұрын

    it means its getting hot because of a bad architecture lol, I had a vega 56 and sold it a week later and got a gtx 1080 for about the same price I sold the vega 56 and it was 10x quieter and faster

  • @tomvandongen8075

    @tomvandongen8075

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kyles8524 that was a good deal! TBF, I bought mine new from a retailer at a great discount and still using it 4 years later, so I'm happy enough. Mine performs slightly better than shown in this video after increasing the power limit and undervolting

  • @kyles8524

    @kyles8524

    11 ай бұрын

    @@tomvandongen8075 I ended up selling the 1080 with the oem box and everything for 400 USD in the GPU crisis back then. I only have a 1080p monitor at 60 hz. I sold it to someone for 400 + there gtx 1060 6 gig cause I only play like 3 games.I use an RX 6600 now which competes with the rtx 3060 but it was $150 off so it was %$219 with 2 free games, one I didnt care about called callisto protocol but came with dead island 2 which is an okay "meh" game. But when you turn vsync on to lock 60 fps the card only pulls like 45 watts of power and im locked at 60 fps in all games I play

  • @sopcannon

    @sopcannon

    11 ай бұрын

    i have to get my fans on my 4070 to 50% to hear it.

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kyles8524 This is a myth that gets repeated. The card is cooler than the previous generation. It's perfectly quiet in the other cooler styles like Red Devil or Sapphire Pulse.

  • @GoodJobLittleBuddy
    @GoodJobLittleBuddy11 ай бұрын

    I had a vega 64 and a vega56. The pulse 56, was an absolute banger of a card, so fun to tune and play with.

  • @jpfidalgo7

    @jpfidalgo7

    11 ай бұрын

    yeah, the Vega 56 Pulse was awesome. I'm a bit sad that I sold mine last week.

  • @FireMrshlBill

    @FireMrshlBill

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jpfidalgo7 Had a Pulse as well, got it when they dropped below $300 in April 2019 (had some game code promo too but I forget which). Was a great card, ended up grabbing a 3080 2 years later, but the Pulse ran great and drivers aged well.

  • @W3DRK

    @W3DRK

    11 ай бұрын

    I've got the Nitro Vega 64, that thing is a monster that still handles itself really well, even by today standards.

  • @GoodJobLittleBuddy

    @GoodJobLittleBuddy

    11 ай бұрын

    @@W3DRK They cop for a lot of unwarranted hate

  • @tyisafk

    @tyisafk

    11 ай бұрын

    I was thinking of building a SteamOS game console with mine laying around. I messed with tweaking it a bit but got impatient so I set it aside but have changed GPUs since then. I think it would be an amazing 1080p/1440p card with FSR scaling to 4K with a V64 BIOs and some undervolting/OC! I could have sold mine for $800 but decided not to in case I found a use for it because it's probably my favorite AMD GPU I've owned.

  • @screwb1882
    @screwb188211 ай бұрын

    Bought my Vega 56 at the end of the previous mining crash for $200 (i flashed it with a 64 bios and undervolted/OC'd the HBM for MASSIVE performance improvements) and sold it during the last mining boom for $700. Bought a RX 6600 XT (significantly faster in new games and WAY quieter and less power hungry) and a 2TB SSD. I think i got my money's worth.

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    You timed that right. There was a point where you could sell a VEGA and buy a 3060 and end up with a faster card and money to spare.

  • @Typhon888

    @Typhon888

    11 ай бұрын

    Nice deals you got yourself. Nice.

  • @Xenoray1

    @Xenoray1

    11 ай бұрын

    i got my rx6800 during mining boom 21 for msrp so i sold my r9 390 that i bought for 150€back then for the exact same price so it was worth it :D

  • @Hughesburner

    @Hughesburner

    9 ай бұрын

    You sound like me. I went through several RTX (3060/3070) cards during the mining boom...I even mined off of them before I sold them to miners for a profit. I am fortunate enough to have a active local marketplace for PC parts, I could buy several new cards a day if I had the cash. Sometimes DIRT cheap. I scored a $90 2070S a few weeks ago, sold it for $200 a few days later.

  • @blizyon30fps86

    @blizyon30fps86

    20 күн бұрын

    Bros a proud scalper lol

  • @GeneralFaliure
    @GeneralFaliure11 ай бұрын

    My Vega 56 served me well for over four years. Lowering the voltage and raising the power limt worked really well on my card, raising the performance quite a bit. It does require a quality psu tough. I upgraded to a RX6800 only a few months ago, the Vega is still happily working in my brothers pc.

  • @kramygaming7479

    @kramygaming7479

    6 ай бұрын

    How many your psu gpu pin

  • @RexNathanChan

    @RexNathanChan

    3 ай бұрын

    I just got a Vega 56 today, Sapphire brand but reference style. Just on stock bios, settings 165W seems ok in temps and fans speeds, but it's hot in Melbourne today so I had a desk fan running beside me. If the fan annoys me, I'll look into undervolting. Looks like current AMD drivers let's you choose to undervolt from the software in Windows...

  • @xstain8131
    @xstain813111 ай бұрын

    i forgot these graphics cards even existed

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah I do that sometimes haha

  • @desupernoodle

    @desupernoodle

    11 ай бұрын

    Don't feel bad, we all forgot

  • @buddybleeyes

    @buddybleeyes

    11 ай бұрын

    As soon as I had the notification I went "oh yeah, vega existed" 🤣 it was either the rx 580 or 5700xt... oops 🤣

  • @dontmatter4423

    @dontmatter4423

    11 ай бұрын

    Don't feel bad they really were forgettable cards even when they were launched

  • @SwissDewd

    @SwissDewd

    11 ай бұрын

    I actually keep these in my mind since i considered them at the time. But I completely forgot about the radeon vii up until recently when I saw one getting used in a old df video

  • @wearefromserbia9714
    @wearefromserbia971411 ай бұрын

    i was wondering how everybody skipped these gpus, everyone jumped from rx 500 series to rx 5000 and 6000 series

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah seems like it haha. These were definitely more of an experimental purchase I think

  • @FireMrshlBill

    @FireMrshlBill

    11 ай бұрын

    Their price at their launch was high and they under-performed until the drivers matured a year or so after launch, the V56 went from lagging behind the 1070 at launch to regularly beating it out in games years later. I upgraded my 580 to a V56 since I was on a 1440p monitor and they dropped the price of Vega in the spring of 2019 significantly. It was great and held up well until I got a 3080 in spring of 2021. I think people at 1080p with a 570 or 580 didn't see the price worth paying and they just held out another gen, especially with their drivers getting better over time too compared to their nvidia counterparts.

  • @spookyghost7524

    @spookyghost7524

    11 ай бұрын

    that's easy what nvidia was offering was better for gaming..and the few of these that were out were copped by crypto miners due to the hbm and higher hash rates for Ethereum

  • @salsa83

    @salsa83

    11 ай бұрын

    They were not price competitive with Nvidia.

  • @ZeroHourProductions407

    @ZeroHourProductions407

    11 ай бұрын

    Crypto miners latched onto these like the facehugger from Alien, to an equally fatalistic result.

  • @ThoughtlessDestiny
    @ThoughtlessDestiny11 ай бұрын

    I had a Vega 64 with blower cooler. It was great during winter as a heater for my house and handled games pretty good for the time.

  • @timdraper4559
    @timdraper455911 ай бұрын

    I love my Vega56, Sapphire Pulse. Brilliant card - Not upgrading anytime soon given the outrageous price/performance around at the moment.

  • @PikaStu666
    @PikaStu66611 ай бұрын

    Nice one! I had a Vega 56 prior to my launch 3070. It served me well for around a year.

  • @ProYamYamPC
    @ProYamYamPC11 ай бұрын

    The Vega cards are super underrated imo. I actually just bought this GPU from you, I can't wait to get to test it for some content too! I have some ideas floating around already.

  • @acur481
    @acur48111 ай бұрын

    i went looking into these just 2 days ago and now you made a video of it, crazy

  • @세키반키
    @세키반키11 ай бұрын

    Definitely check out the HBCC function as well, cuz it can make vega56/64 really competent in some games that require more than 8gbs of VRAM with higher graphics settings

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    Games which hit the 8GB limit could benefit from setting this card to 12GB in the driver.

  • @boredape1257

    @boredape1257

    11 ай бұрын

    it will not help much.

  • @toomanydogs1527

    @toomanydogs1527

    8 ай бұрын

    @@boredape1257 Yup... As soon as that segment of memory gets used, you really feel it. It's an interesting concept though.

  • @christiaanventer8183
    @christiaanventer818311 ай бұрын

    I have one of these Vega56 since 2019, I found the best performance is whenever the card was under 70 Celsius. No amount of over/underclock would give as best an impact as just cranking the fan curve. That 8GB of VRAM really does keep it running well under 1080p. I doubt I'll sell it when I buy a newer card, its gonna run the 4k TV I'm setting up in my lounge.

  • @TheSlowDude
    @TheSlowDude11 ай бұрын

    Awesome content, thanks again. :-)

  • @greenerell484
    @greenerell48411 ай бұрын

    these videos are so useful

  • @youtubesucks69420
    @youtubesucks6942011 ай бұрын

    I owned the pulse 56 for several years and I have to say it made me appreciate the art of fine tuning my pc. Just out of the box its a power hungry and hot running lump, But a bit of tinkering and trying a few peoples settings showed me that you could really push it to match the 1070ti and sometimes even the 1080.

  • @MarcosCodas
    @MarcosCodas11 ай бұрын

    I prefer the change back to more structured dialogue/speech during these tests rather than the live commentary during gameplay. 👌🏻 much appreciated, thanks for changing back.

  • @DankBlank
    @DankBlank11 ай бұрын

    I'm glad these Vega's are getting to around $130. I remember I bought my Nitro+ Vega 64 for $300 in 2020.

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Wow yeah they are dropping fast

  • @chenzen4915

    @chenzen4915

    11 ай бұрын

    i bought a Vega 64 for around $200 back in 2018

  • @Dregomz02

    @Dregomz02

    11 ай бұрын

    They are not worth it at that price point, i got rx 5700 xt for $124 (three fan too) and it's 20%+ more powerful

  • @chenzen4915

    @chenzen4915

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Dregomz02 I agree, better performance out there

  • @brzimtrco6142

    @brzimtrco6142

    11 ай бұрын

    I sold my vega 56 for 750e in 2020, bought 6700xt for the same money

  • @pietervanniekerk9626
    @pietervanniekerk962611 ай бұрын

    Great vid as always

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Appreciate it!

  • @munxcorp
    @munxcorp11 ай бұрын

    0:50 our man here living dangerously what with the card placement right next to a pool :D

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Haha yeah I was a bit nervous about this shot

  • @finestmunchies7372
    @finestmunchies73725 ай бұрын

    Love my Red Dragon Vega 56 still going strong!

  • @michaelthompson9798
    @michaelthompson979811 ай бұрын

    The Vega lineup showing it’s still got a lot to offer for 1080p high quality gaming, even in todays harder to run titles 🥰💪😇👍😎

  • @Al3ksandrOrlov
    @Al3ksandrOrlov11 ай бұрын

    5700XT is an insane value used rn, I got one in 2020 for MSRP, only sour point for me was the fact it started dying after 2 years & XFX's warranty is only 2 years in the UK/EU (but is 3 in the US), so got a 6650XT as a replacement

  • @AlexHusTech

    @AlexHusTech

    11 ай бұрын

    How come you went with 6650 over the 6700XT, unless you got it for a bargain?

  • @olnnn

    @olnnn

    11 ай бұрын

    @@AlexHusTech New ones have gone down a bit in price recently, new 6650 XT seem to often be cheaper than new 6600 XT now for some reason.

  • @AlexHusTech

    @AlexHusTech

    11 ай бұрын

    @@olnnn ah ok, I'm just waiting for 7700xt to come out, hopefully prices fall even more.

  • @wanderingwobb6300

    @wanderingwobb6300

    11 ай бұрын

    It's gonna age a lot worse than Turing in the long term. No DX12 ultimate support, no DLSS, and no RT support. It also had awful drivers for the first year it was out but that's not an issue anymore at least.

  • @Liminal.Headspace

    @Liminal.Headspace

    11 ай бұрын

    XFX cards are garbage. Look at the XFX RX 6400 SF versus the Saphire one. The Saphire one looks like it was made for Compaq in the early 2000's yet it performs thermaly way better than the SFX. SFX is the only big GPU partner I recommend against. PNY quality is an order of magnitude above it.

  • @BigBloopGames
    @BigBloopGames11 ай бұрын

    WTF that 360 drift on 7:30 dude, this is insane

  • @gorjaharchangel2267
    @gorjaharchangel226711 ай бұрын

    Another nice video! I really hope that you make a follow up with undervolting+overclocking the card as it helped them a lot back in the day. Vega 56/64 biggest problem was the 1070/1080 in my opinion. They offered similar performance but the Nvidia cards consumed considerably less power and, especially at the beginning didn't have driver issues like the Vega. In my country(Greece) people for some reason are a bit sceptical about the Vega family of cards so both 56 and 64 cost around 100 to 120€ as there is little demand for them after the mining crash. On the other gad, 1070 and 1080 could cost much more, 130-140€ is a regular price for the 1070 (usually 150€ as well) while the 1080 goes for around 170-180€ . After some good searching i found for my brother a 100€ Asus ROG STRIX 1070 and just the other day for 115€ a Founder's Edition which I will keep for a while for my secondary PC.

  • @RexNathanChan

    @RexNathanChan

    3 ай бұрын

    In Australia, 1070/1080 still around 150-200aud I think. I just got Vega56 for $90aud which I think is pretty good deal. RX570/580 now around $70-80aud.

  • @gejamugamlatsoomanam7716
    @gejamugamlatsoomanam771611 ай бұрын

    Blower gpu sounds is my ASMR to fall asleep

  • @Kelekona_808
    @Kelekona_80811 ай бұрын

    Just in time for winter.

  • @danwestern7862
    @danwestern786211 ай бұрын

    I've been thinking about commenting to see if you were going to review one of these. I've got a Sapphire Nitro model and that thing still handles everything I throw at it great

  • @caseyharvey5730
    @caseyharvey573011 ай бұрын

    I've been using a flashed vega 56 since 2019/2020 right before the gpu price hike. It hasnt let me down personally, but I tend not to play brand new titles. I used to use it with a 1440p display with great success before moving to two ultrawide 1440p displays stacked which is still does a fantastic job with. At this point I'm just waiting for graphics card prices to become more competitive again, or for this card to be incapable of doing what I want.

  • @MrSegAsh
    @MrSegAsh11 ай бұрын

    I bought one of these for £50 and sold it for £350 a year ago. The owner thought it was faulty but it just needed tuning properly. I found using the alternative drivers which I read about in a forum and it ran better and never crashed after that. Mine had the Samsung memory and I flashed the Vega64 firmware. It was a great card I thought once I got it running nice.

  • @406mill
    @406mill11 ай бұрын

    The untapped potentail of the 56 and 64 is ridiculous. I've owned both and they are most certainly a tinkerers dream, so much fun to play with.

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah definitely enthusiasts cards

  • @snaky115
    @snaky11511 ай бұрын

    Wee, Vega! Man.. Vega really wants a little more power and a noticeable undervolt (at least 75 milivolts) to climb a lot in performance, it will boost quite a bit by itself.

  • @yogibear2k220
    @yogibear2k22011 ай бұрын

    Just been watching your car channel. Very Interesting, and I loved that tractor! It's a pity that you rarely post there anymore, but cars can be expensive I know. I haven't driven for over 8 years not since my illness, and I really do miss it. Do you still have the land rover? Probably not as it was over 3 years ago. Anyway, loving this channel as well of course. Thanks for all your hard work.

  • @nobodyyouknow1065
    @nobodyyouknow106511 ай бұрын

    My one and only kryptonite is graphics cards that look like that. Yes, I need the thing that makes other things look good to look good itself.

  • @lashyndragon
    @lashyndragon11 ай бұрын

    I had this exact card. Got rid of it due to noise but it was fun to mess around with.

  • @ronnie3626
    @ronnie36269 ай бұрын

    Just bought a Vega 64 Nitro+ for 100€ and Vega 56 Pulse for 70€, very happy with them. They are not as power hungry as many people say. Tweaking is fun and around 50% faster than my GTX 1060 I sold for 75€ after 5 years. :)

  • @mkhan52895
    @mkhan5289511 ай бұрын

    Will u do a vega 64 video? BTW nice video

  • @Haider08
    @Haider0811 ай бұрын

    I bought this exact card for 235GBP in 2019 and have just upgraded to a PowerColor Red Dragon 6800XT last month for 509GBP. Happy with both but the 56 was struggling to get 144fps on MWII comp settings without FSR and the 1% lows were tangible I'm most games. There was a full month where an MWII update caused a failure to boot the game at all for Vega cards so I knew it was time to upgrade after that. I think I'd rather keep it as an antique than sell it on.

  • @Collin_J
    @Collin_J11 ай бұрын

    Those Forza Horizon 1 & .1% lows are amazing. Wow

  • @CPT_IDPS
    @CPT_IDPS11 ай бұрын

    Still rocking a Vega 64 strix on a water block. Undervolt for the win, great gpu still. Running with 1700x, who needs an upgrade Love seeing Vega cards still being used! Also I still play 4K games with this system.

  • @jeroen5736
    @jeroen573611 ай бұрын

    nice cards. i have a puls laying around modded with two 120mm fans . very silent and much cooler then stock .

  • @yesterdaysjam2405
    @yesterdaysjam240511 ай бұрын

    I have one of these, same MSI model with Samsung memory and molded die. Got way too loud even after an undervolt so slapped an AIO on it and it's solid.

  • @nevernicemeadow
    @nevernicemeadow11 ай бұрын

    going for 90-100 € in berlin currently... man i d really like to buy one of those. unfortunately i already have too much "retro hardware" without a real use other than checking them out and testing them once

  • @travisdonotsuscribegototjs9323
    @travisdonotsuscribegototjs932311 ай бұрын

    I really liked The Vegas 64 AIO edition wish I would have kept it though I just know the 56 and 64 offer similar enough performance which I might actually buy my favorite GPUs of yesterday years

  • @emymagkuchen
    @emymagkuchen11 ай бұрын

    Had a lot of fun with my strix Vega 56 which i basically swapped for free for an 3070 and then a 6800 XT during 2021 😅 Good times for a student with too much time on their hands

  • @uglybob7505
    @uglybob750511 ай бұрын

    Always wanted one of these bad boys when they first came out but ended up getting a 1070 instead. I think me noise cancelling headphones would have been pushed to the limit with this afterburner-sounding card cooling on full pelt. Still though, impressive card, thanks for sharing 🙂

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    The VEGA Sapphire Pulse are plentiful, cheap and quiet.

  • @AlexanderSmith600
    @AlexanderSmith60011 ай бұрын

    I had a Vega 56 with Morpheus II cooler (5 slots thick with fans) and it was A BEAST! Maximum overclock and barely 50°C whisper quiet!

  • @lflyr6287
    @lflyr628711 ай бұрын

    RandomGaminginHD : I used to own a Sapphire Nitro RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 (2x8-pin version) which I sold to my friend....back then it was on paar with my KFA2 GTX 1080 EXOC 8GB....but today, it's quite a different story....in practically every game that I play, my newly acquired Asus Strix RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 (again a 2 x 8-pin version) beats my KFA2 GTX 1080 EXOC 8GB by around 15 % - 20 %....both tested on the same Ryzen 7 5800X3D rig coupled with dual channel 64 GB of 3600 MH/T DDR4. Vega cards are very very good today and definitely worth the money.

  • @_kamisama_4362
    @_kamisama_436211 ай бұрын

    I have 64 LC and still running games awesome.

  • @patchouli3422
    @patchouli342211 ай бұрын

    I picked up this exact card a few months ago to throw into a Steam PC along with a 4790. Amazing how the Vega56 comes out swinging this late in the game.

  • @KokoroKatsura

    @KokoroKatsura

    11 ай бұрын

    a n i m e n i m e

  • @shinyperception

    @shinyperception

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@KokoroKatsurano one gives af

  • @KokoroKatsura

    @KokoroKatsura

    11 ай бұрын

    yet you replied

  • @shinyperception

    @shinyperception

    11 ай бұрын

    @@KokoroKatsura bet u think you're so cool replying with that 😻

  • @GhostMirror3567
    @GhostMirror356711 ай бұрын

    I still have my Vega 56 currently using it, I have the PowerColor Red Dragon model I have had for several years now

  • @HWMonster
    @HWMonster11 ай бұрын

    It was (and is) much better then everyone thought.

  • @CFWhitman
    @CFWhitman11 ай бұрын

    Because they try to send the air out the back of the card, I suspect that blower style cards might actually have a slight edge in cooling performance in cases with poor ventilation. For me that usually means OEM cases, especially low profile ones. Of course, that doesn't stop them from being noisy.

  • @Boogie_the_cat
    @Boogie_the_cat11 ай бұрын

    "Air Boost" I love it. I bet the original box also had a big mech or a 3D rendered pixie with big bazooms on it. That was ye olde style of GPU boxes.

  • @thebacontruck7953
    @thebacontruck795311 ай бұрын

    You should use the uncapped fps mod for your Elden Ring benchmarks IMO. More informative that way.

  • @mmmihai1384
    @mmmihai138411 ай бұрын

    rx and vega old gpus are still amazing

  • @MrNeil-qs5fo
    @MrNeil-qs5fo11 ай бұрын

    Still have my Vega56 Powercolor Red Dragon. With some nice under-volting this card is still a small beast.

  • @danielfarnell2708
    @danielfarnell270811 ай бұрын

    I had this card paired with a 4670k. The outerworlds is the game where i noticed a real struggle from the system and upgraded to a 10600k. Upgraded the gpu to a 3070 when cybepunk arrived. Pricing up a 7600 system now

  • @AM-qc3vk
    @AM-qc3vk11 ай бұрын

    I had an original vega 64 blower card. Man was it hot 🔥

  • @AMD7027
    @AMD702711 ай бұрын

    Flash the 56 with the Vega 64 BIOS and under volt it. I had this same card for quite awhile and it played extremely well.

  • @britannicman9995
    @britannicman999511 ай бұрын

    I just bought the gigabyte version for a 100 bucks I'm testing it now raid video by the way I love these used computer builds

  • @KuntalGhosh
    @KuntalGhosh11 ай бұрын

    I so wanted a vega 64 when it came out.

  • @wilhoi
    @wilhoi11 ай бұрын

    the frame time graph steady like straight line

  • @Gaz426
    @Gaz42611 ай бұрын

    I still have one of these in an older machine, though I did have issues with stability. Eventually I found it was more stable with the pro drivers. As others have mentioned it's worth undervolting too.

  • @EvilTurkeySlices

    @EvilTurkeySlices

    11 ай бұрын

    What kind of issues? I don’t remember having many when I used one of these in my main machine.

  • @tahasahin8408
    @tahasahin840811 ай бұрын

    Bought a Sapphire Vega 56 for 110€, which is not loud like referance at all. I'm very happy with it

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Awesome :)

  • @pcbencher9593
    @pcbencher95936 ай бұрын

    Just bought the exact same card 16.12.23 for £50 UK. Card was disgusting full of dirt and clogged with dust. The thermal paste was rock solid. After a full tear down clean up and repaste with MK6 it’s a cracking buy. Set it to 1040mv 950 VRAM and 1662 core though typically sits at 1550-1575 50% PL. for £50 fantastic card

  • @soumenchakraborty2450
    @soumenchakraborty245010 ай бұрын

    I have the gigabyte version of the 56, been told it’s not the best AIB model but for me it just works with decent fps and frame times (mostly high settings at 1080p)

  • @JustDevon
    @JustDevon11 ай бұрын

    One day you'll win 2 rounds of Crossed Wands. I believe in you

  • @bigmango202
    @bigmango20211 ай бұрын

    5600xt and 6600 are around 100 usd right now and it feels so amazing to have somewhat decent pricing

  • @Sparklywoof
    @Sparklywoof11 ай бұрын

    I have a soft spot for reference cards. My first pc was kickstarted when a friend sent me an R9 290 reference and though I've moved on, (sent the whole pc (16gb ram i7 4790) to a friend with a dying rig and a gtx580) I've thought about buying another R9; mostly to look at.

  • @tomvandongen8075

    @tomvandongen8075

    11 ай бұрын

    I had a reference R9 290 for a while too! Super cool to look at but the noise of that thing was absolutely astronomical; an order of magnitude worse than this Vega 56 (which I'm currently using)

  • @79huddy

    @79huddy

    11 ай бұрын

    Still use a r9 280x vapor with an I5 750 in the living room media tower still plays csgo and bad company and doubles as a space heater on winter movie nights

  • @Unknown-rk9qm
    @Unknown-rk9qm11 ай бұрын

    Blower style are always better looking!

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    They help cool your case in a tight build too.

  • @DanielTheFreak
    @DanielTheFreak11 ай бұрын

    lol what a coincidence, I just bought one myself :D

  • @uri.uritorco
    @uri.uritorco11 ай бұрын

    I have the Phantom Gaming by ASRock model, in my personal opinion, it is a good option if you don't have much money. With undervolt, you get much more performance and consume less. If you dare tweaking, it's also excellent (as long as you have Samsung memories). Good alternative to cost $100 and assemble a low cost PC.

  • @alainmilette6460
    @alainmilette646011 ай бұрын

    I still have one lying around, put a morpheus II on it, flashed the vega 64 bios and with an undervolt and slight overclock, it makes for a wonderfully cool card that easily trades blows with any 1080! The blower cooler was awful.

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah I think I’ll get an aftermarket cooler for this before tweaking it

  • @soundt3ck274
    @soundt3ck27411 ай бұрын

    I managed to score a reference model card for 50€ and a sapphire nitro one for 80€. Needless to say, I am more than happy with my purchases as those cards have more than enough power for the games I am playing.

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Really good deals :)

  • @sharpey92
    @sharpey9211 ай бұрын

    I actually was using a Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 up until recently still really good in games and ran much quieter than this card, Have you heard about the bios update? that you do some overclocking of the GPU memory and it can boost the performance to close to the vega 64

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    These can match a VEGA 64 because fewer cores can overclock more.

  • @xxxmass
    @xxxmass11 ай бұрын

    for me, the saphire pulse version of this card has the coolest designed backplate :D

  • @EvilTurkeySlices
    @EvilTurkeySlices11 ай бұрын

    I have a Vega 56 Pulse. Great card still, the only reason I upgraded was to play Cyberpunk better as it really doesn’t like Vega. My card is near silent under load(except on a hot summer day, but even then it’s no loud) it served me well from June of 2019 to august of 2021 when I got my 1080 ti. Before the Vega I was using a GTX 970.

  • @unitybeing777
    @unitybeing77711 ай бұрын

    Awesome.

  • @pcbencher9593
    @pcbencher95936 ай бұрын

    Just picked this model up for £50!! Works flawlessly! - it did run hot and out given its 6 years old I took it apart repasted it with Artic Mx6 and undervolted to 1600 P7 and 1v sits around 1525mhz. Tops out at 40% fan 2400rpm and 76 degrees. Well chuffed

  • @graxxor
    @graxxor11 ай бұрын

    Still got an RX VEGA 48 in my iMac from 2019... As long as you don't actually ask it to do anything, it's a champ... O_o

  • @AUTISM_MILES
    @AUTISM_MILES11 ай бұрын

    RGinHD is kind of a monster at mw2 now (when you compare to previous footage of mw2 testing he gets killed multiple times but here DAMN he good at this)

  • @chrisk3127
    @chrisk312711 ай бұрын

    my 1070ti had issues with MW2 as well I ended up running 1440p at medium and would still drop to 20 fps once in a while when my average was around 70 depending on the map

  • @BOXabaca
    @BOXabaca11 ай бұрын

    It'll shine on DX11 Witcher 3. My vega64 powered 3200x1800 60+fps back in the day

  • @RandomGaminginHD

    @RandomGaminginHD

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah might test without next gen patch as well for older cards

  • @KaitenKenbu
    @KaitenKenbu11 ай бұрын

    Thinking about tossing one of these in my mac pro 5,1

  • @sgtjarhead99
    @sgtjarhead9910 ай бұрын

    The MSI "Air Boost" was the brand of Vega 64 that I got about 4 years ago. It worked fine (i.e. stable) once I got an undervolt and aggressive fan setting to manage the heat, but the noise was a deal breaker for me. Besides being a space heater, it was like running a hair dryer that I could still hear even when gaming with headphones. Even woke up my wife one night. Finally got fed up with it after only 6 months and replaced it with a pricier GTX 2070 Super, which in turn I just recently replaced with a 6800xt. I never looked back until a couple of months ago when I dusted the old Vega 64 off the shelf and replaced the blower with an old Morpheus II. What a difference it made. I never would have gotten the 2070S if I had went this route years ago. The old girl still holds up pretty well with all my games.

  • @imadam
    @imadam11 ай бұрын

    i forgot these and the radeon 7 even existed

  • @Totto70770
    @Totto7077011 ай бұрын

    I love these, never had one though, always too expensive for me. There are better choices however. Interestingly the 64 goes for the same price (where I live at least). The RX 5700 (non-XT) is within 10-15 Euro as well and is more power efficient, more performant and should have less driver issues. A tiny suggestion - It would be lovely to see a quick performance comparison on screen to other relevant/comparable products. Just for a few seconds at the end of the video with the final thoughts segment. Would be really informative to see at a glance how this compared to the 1070, or the 5600 XT for example

  • @kingcrackedhen3572
    @kingcrackedhen357211 ай бұрын

    Can’t wait to see how gta 6 turns out

  • @kingcrackedhen3572
    @kingcrackedhen357211 ай бұрын

    Got my friend this as an upgrade over his 780ti, the 8gb acts more like 10gb Thankfully I got it for £100 too but around 5-6 months ago sapphire pulse edition

  • @paddyodoors2757
    @paddyodoors275711 ай бұрын

    Still rockin one to this day, it's an asus strixx

  • @EinSwitzer
    @EinSwitzer11 ай бұрын

    No undervolting no overclocking / PASTE and sanding the chip flat then giving it a nice polish then repress of heatsink while warmed in preheater then your will have a ROCKIN VEGA what ever mem mode.

  • @a1ankaymusic
    @a1ankaymusic15 күн бұрын

    I am grabbing a Vega 56 today off fb market for 50$… yesterday I got an i7 six core 2018 mac mini with 32 gigs of ram. I will use a Razer x chroma egpu and connect through Thunderbolt and use the Vega 56 for editing video, and light gaming. Def a decent card if you can find it priced right

  • @sokerok320
    @sokerok3205 ай бұрын

    I LOVE BLOWER STYLE CARDS

  • @branko4138
    @branko413811 ай бұрын

    Bought Vega 56 nitro plus model for 110e :)

  • @edgarzakarian1649
    @edgarzakarian164911 ай бұрын

    I have this exact card stuck in a node 202 case under the TV. Sounds like the ps4 beside it haha. So you get the real PC as console experience.

  • @DodgyTodger
    @DodgyTodger5 ай бұрын

    I just got one, won't work with the adrenaline drivers but perfect with the pro drivers. It's got overheating issues though so once that's controlled it's great. It's a massive improvement over the r9 380 it replaced. The witcher 3 at ultra detail 1080p is very playable as you say. Very smooth. I put civ5 on a 5k display at max details and it ran... 13fps when zoomed in though...then it overheated 😂. Undervolt or dropping power limit make it less likely to overheat

  • @toma.cnc1
    @toma.cnc111 ай бұрын

    Can you please include Doom Eternal, it is very good at showing differences between cards and busses and memory bandwidth. Thank you.

  • @dodgydruid
    @dodgydruid11 ай бұрын

    I have always fancied a Vega, HBM2 memory and 2048 bus bandwith which is 10 times bigger than my RX580 but where did it go wrong with all those impressive figures :S

  • @wayland7150

    @wayland7150

    11 ай бұрын

    It was expensive to make. Now we get them cheaper than an RX 580.

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