Test Rig
For our tests, we used a new test rig which is comprised of a Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme (X299) motherboard, along with an Intel Core i5-7640X at default clock speed of 4.0GHz, as well as 16GB of G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i5-7640X @ 4.0GHz (Kaby Lake-X) |
| Cooling | Cooler Master MasterLiquid AIO |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme (X299) Motherboard |
| Ram | 16GB G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 |
| HDD | Patriot Hellfire 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G RGB 750W |
| VGA card | Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) |
| AMD Radeon Drivers | Crimson ReLive |
| OS | Windows 10 |
AIDA64 GPGPU Benchmarks
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Idle Temperatures
At default clock speeds, the card was operating normally at around 58 degrees Celsius. Although it might look pretty high … it’s actually running within the specified temperatures.
Load Temperatures
The card reaches high of 68 degrees Celsius at full load, with a hot spot of around 85 degrees. It’s fairly high, but the large heatsink and triple fans coped with no problems and helped tremendously with the cooling.
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“You can buy the Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card for around USD $550-580 from various e-tailers.” From where?
Well, I found a different version (Sapphire) on Amazon for USD $560 – http://amzn.to/2zhqq9N
Stock cooler tho 🙁
If you want to overclock the RX Vega… you definitely need a better cooler.
terrible review. Not even an attempt at overclocking cos this card would crash. you can only get good performance from Vega if you water cool it as it’s too hot for ANY air cooler to handle.
My vega56 with a waterblock smashes all the scores on this review by huge margins.
Yeah the card does run HOT … our reviews are published using default setting only.
Yes, the RX Vega 64 does running pretty HOT, that’s why we didn’t overclock it. We don’t overclock VGA cards in our reviews. All our reviews are published at default settings.
There’s also something wrong with that Firestrike graphics score of 26542.
you’d have to be running clock speeds well over 1700 to get that score.
what a biased review, so much nvidia bias. messed up scores using pro nivdia benches, no oc,
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Yeah no OC, because it’s not great at overclocking.
Confirmed. This card has OC issues …
Great review!