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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

i forgot these graphics cards even existed

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. :)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love my Red Dragon Vega 56 still going strong!

My friend got his Vega 56 in Jan/Feb 2020 as an upgrade to a GTX 970 (3.5/4gb VRAM wasnt cutting it), considering how GPUs skyrocketed in price, he did pretty well

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.

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

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

RandomGaminginHD : Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that was first shown back in 2011 on E3. Its game engine was developed from 2010-2012. Game design was finished in 2014 and then put on a shelf. Games on engines from that era were basing completely on DX 9.0c from WinXP era. The same was for DX 11 API in Win 7 era. They only liked 1-2 cpu fast cores and linear frequency on GPU-s to be as high as possible. Besides fast GPU core and GPU memory clocks only the number ROP-s was what mattered. So, if you have GPU core running in between 1600 - 2000 MHz, have 128 ROP-s, 256-bit memory bandwidth and at least 18 GH/T GDDR6 this will run with the highest possible FPS. Radeon 7 and Vega 64 cards were more of a Texture crunching GPU-s with large memory busses, large number of TMU-s and relatively slow memory frequencies...but they needed them being filled by ASYNCHRONUS COMPUTING was to be utilized properly....which we all know that still in praxis doesn't exist because true DX 12 API based games still don't exist and rung through an empty DX 12 API to be computer in a SYNCHRONUS WAY in the back via DX 11 API.

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 🙂

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.

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

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.

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

When these cards were new the '56 didn't perform that much better than a 6GB GTX 1060 and were hot, noisy and inefficient. They came into their own later on with driver improvements and overclocking but prices never really dropped to a level that made them particularly attractive on the used market. The Vega 64 was an even bigger dud.

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.

I had one of these, the Sapphire version and when the pandemic hit, someone offered me way more money for it than I actually paid for it new, so I sold it off. I kind of regret that. Great gpus at the time and still good it seems.

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.

Oh come onnn, I just started looking at purchasing a Vega 64, now you'll raise the price 😂it's gonna be used on a second PC with capability of running older macOS versions, but still. RX 5700 and XT seem like the next best deal to get. Killer performance for around 150€.

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

The problem with the HMB memory cards is, that once the memory goes bad, and it does, there's no way to fix those. You can't just solder a new chip. That's why those are not recommended to buy secondhand.

Blower gpu sounds is my ASMR to fall asleep

The original reference design V56 are the best when it comes to memory OC, as those were using Samsung HBM and can be flashed with 64 bios. MSI AirBoost Vega 56 exclusively uses Hynix memory, as it's a reference clone and cannot be flashed. I was using a watercooled ref. 56 for 1440p gaming until recently and with some optimization (powerplay tables) I got it to around 200W ASIC pwr draw under load, 1560-1590Mhz sustained, aswell as 1145Mhz HBM clocks, which provided a large performance increase. Cards that can't flash 64 bios may be able to achieve higher memory clockspeeds by using the "AMD Memory Tweak Tool" and slightly relaxing the timings.

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

rx and vega old gpus are still amazing

The drivers are more often than not the culprit with GCN 5. The hardware itself is actually fairly overpowered for what it was, but it relied a ton on drivers for things to run properly on it. It's a shame that AMD all but gave up on Vega and only very well optimised DX12 titles seem to be able to showcase its true potential...6 years on

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

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

You should use GPU-Z in your video's to show driver version, core and memory clocks it also has ASIC Quality in the advanced tab drop down, that will give us the quality of the samples you use if the card supports it, there is lots of info in GPU-Z that i think might add a little more depth when demonstrating gpu's.

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)

I have the Silver Vega64 it’s still being used in my Hackintosh, it’s the sexiest GPU have ever owned period

"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.

The blower style fan indicates that you have the extremely overclockable memory. Flashed with a Vega 64 BIOS and undervolted while overclocked gains a MASSIVE amount of performance on these cards. Mine served me well and overclocked like a monster. After all that it was outperforming a stock RX5700XT.

I found a fix on call of duty for my Vega 56. You have to drop the memory limit down to 50%. It's still uses the memory according to afterburner but smooths out the stutters. Actually works great once you do that as AMD cards love that game.

I'm even more impressed to see RX 6700 XT for 115 GBP !!! Will be great in my mac pro 5.1, in which I have already thrown too much cash, tnx god I changed my mind and not bought Vega 64/Radeon VII - all this in the worst times when the prices were the highest... Couldn't find any under 500GBP, now I found more than 10 under 100GBP in 2 minutes of searching...

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.

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

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

I bought the Air Boost OC version of this card new years ago... My worst graphics card purchase ever. When I bought it, there weren't many reviews on Newegg. After my struggle with this specific model as the months wore on, I went back to Newegg to find many more reviews. Not good ones. Frequently crashed. Upping the powerlimit, undervolting, and lowering the clock speeds helped, but it was always a liability. I always regretted not waiting just one more month and getting a 5700 XT when it launched. But today, I'm a proud owner of a reference AMD 6800 that is rock solid. :)

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.

i forgot these and the radeon 7 even existed

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

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

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

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

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.

The Vega 56 was the better product than the 64 for sure, it outperformed the 1070 and could be flashed with a Vega 64 BIOS for even more performance. I wonder if yours may have handled the heat better with a reapplication of thermal paste

THIS IS MY GPU! I flashed it with a vega 64 bios and maxed out the power limit. Vegas love to vacuum up those watts.

Am I the only one who loves Blower style coolers even though it is noisy

I so wanted a vega 64 when it came out.

i wanted to buy a used Vega 56 years ago, but had to go with a GTX 1070 instead due to its lower price. the Vega's power consumption isn't even *that* high. which is surprising to me because as i remember AMD had to use HBM memory for specifically that reason. my silly Arc A770 here has a bigger appetite

you wouldn't. the absolute madman

I got one for $80 the guy said it ran at 90c so I repasted it and it runs at 70c now. Great card.

You should test this card with the HBCC mode if you didn't already. It seems it was an unique feature of these vega cards and the radeon vii. Also, on linux it's even possible to do raytracing with this and other gcn architecture cards and first gen navi (similar to rt on nvidia 10xx cards) though it'll probably be slow. Lastly, did you use the last official driver or the nimez ones?

Rocking one here ! Paired with my 1650v2 OCed to 4.5GHz all core and 16GB of quad channel @2133MT/s gives plenty enough to play a lot of games ! I wish to see AMD releasing a new R9 Nano or Vega 56 Nano like GPU with HBM2e or HBM3 someday so we can get compact power houses to fit tiny rigs ! Edit: Its also a fun card for ppl who likes to tweak around ^^ Undervolting it is a really good starting point !

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!

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

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

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.

I bought a Vega 56 off of a dude that didn't mention any modifications. Upon fiddling with things, I realized that the second BIOS is flashed with the 64 BIOS. It makes such a big difference. Shout out to Indians who can't resist modifying software. Lol

I always loved the idea of the Vega cards being affordable options. It really is obvious that games aren’t being optimized for it or GCN anymore. MW2 and Cyberpunk 2077 are proof of that. Still worthwhile.

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

Blower style are always better looking!

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

Awesome content, thanks again. :-)

I’m surprised you got mw2 to run on the Vega. Other users have reported it not even opening with the Vega series.

Given that according to the userbenchmark website this is only 17% worse than a 2060, I'm not surprised it can still hold its own. I had a RX 580 before and that already was able to handle even the VR gaming I threw at it. I got my 3060 less than a year ago too and that 580 was happily chugging along at a decent acceptable performance level.

I forgot these cards exist, while I still have one up and running in one of my systems…

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

If you make another video for this card, please try enabling ultra textures in Hogwarts Legacy and The Last of Us to see if the HBM memory makes a difference

I bought a vega 64 for less than £90 (quite recently) , it crushes my 1080

Got mine for 20usd. Such a banger for the cost.