AMD Radeon RX Vega 64: What Real Users Actually Think

6 years are a long time in this tech.

This is all just too late. Vega 64 (and 56 to a lesser extent) were fairly meaningless releases because they launched too late and didn't blow the competition out of the water.

Really want to upgrade my V64 but not a lot of options right now that I can afford. Maybe a RX 6800 but so far I've missed out on some steals. Holding out for a few more months for prices to drop more.

5700, 5700 XT, Vega 56, and Vega 64 are the best value used GPUs for very little. I'm guessing in the case of Vega it's because most people forget it even existed so it's highly slept on. Ebay recently sold listings has a vega 64 for as low a 64$ and it outperforms a 3050. Not a 4k card obviously lol, but very good deal for its power level at 1080 and maybe compromised 1440.

Stock Vega is now equal. Undervolted Vega always been better on average.

Vega 64 was held up as possibly the most FineWine of GPUs, but here we are with the GTX1080 being the real FineWine card, still getting driver support after the Vega series has been "sent off to the farm".

Vega 64 is the bottleneck in a system with a 5700X3D.

You are incredibly held back by that CPU now. You wouldn't believe the stability and smoothness increase (1% lows) you'd get by dropping in a $130 dollar 5600x (eBay etc) if your boards AGESA microcode supported it.

Vega 64 was never really a 4K card so I think this shows it in a worse light, but I just went from a 64 LC to 7900 XTX and in some titles it really was a phenomenal improvement; loved the 64 LC design though, and will probably sell the 7900 XTX to upgrade instead of holding onto it like the 64.

I still have a sapphire nitro+ rx vega 64 and just bought a new 27in 1440p 240hz oled monitor and in most triple A games if you run low settings if competitive you get 100-200fps. If your into single player games at max settings I get just about 60fps or more in some still.

I think its amazing how people in the comments say "hurr durr 2l8 and 2 much power". Undervolted and the 64 always beat the 1080. Still at higher power draw but for christ sake, its a high end gaming card, lets not act like even 50W difference would matter.

Vega 56 here. It's good for modern titles 1080p. It was a 1440p card in its day. 4K is unattainable since the framebuffer is a bottleneck at that res. Even for older titles.

Don't buy Vega 64 if you only use it for gaming. The price for it's gaming performance is just too high.

Vega 64 is a 2017 card, and it is a monstrosity in terms of power efficiency. Get a 6600/6600XT, which are faster and consume less than half the power.

Still rockin' a RX Vega, waiting patiently for RDNA3 prices to drop (not holding my breath, though). Playing on 1440p, with generally OK FPS on high settings.

The RX Vega 64 liquid is ancient vs. the new RX 7900 XTX in 4k. The 7900 XTX does deliver over 3X performance (average FPS) vs. the Vega 64 Liquid.

I still have a vega 56 with a 64 bios flashed. With optimal undervolt and slight mem oc it actually hits these v64 results of the vid. My '$400 during release week 1080' so to speak.

Its not so crazy when you note that the XTX is drawing 50% more power than the infamously power hogging Vega 64.

That card is pretty old in the teeth for that type of money. You are paying a premium for the "Refurbished" tag where the seller most likely did nothing but clean a bit of dust. Just get a used RTX 2060 Super 8GB. It sells for around 150€ on eBay.

On par? fuck that, it is superior - add freesync to the mix and its a winner.

Reminds me of when the RTX 3080 came out I sold my Vega 64 for 880 euro a couple months after cause of the crypto boom then I used it towards the 3080.

This exudes "1080 still a beast bro". I think we've heard this before just a few times idk man…

The 1080 was truly a great card. Vega honestly was never that bad despite being power hungry, but Pascal on the whole was a big leap forward from GCN. My RVII under water would almost match a 1080ti but the ti was still easier to manage.

GTA V and CS2 are easy games to run. Try running an actual demanding game with high end graphics and you'll quickly realize the inadequacies of such an old GPU. Games are starting to require raytracing and more are adopting this.

Vega56 and 144hz 1440p here too and albeit I don't play top games, it gets the job done still.

Vega64 is btw Gtx1080 and 1080ti. For 1080p gaming there is nothing that can run at high or even ultra. The only bad thing about any Amd card for me is that if you are into emulation or Minecraft OpenGl support is plain bad even gtx 1050 is faster than Vega64 in OpenGl applications. I am still using one and i am pretty happy with it, but i would not buy one today.

Vega 56 Nano here. love my card. I will never get rid of it.

I got my Vega 56 for around $200 some 4 years ago. To this day you still can't get better performance (by much) at that price.

Think about this, you can use system ram as vram on a Vega 64 up to 24gb.

The Vega 64 is my favorite PC part I've ever owned and I actually miss using it. OCd, UVd, and adjusted fan curves; never ran above 70 degrees on the reference cooler and was an absolute tank in games. I did upgrade to a 6700 mainly for the lower power draw but there was something special about the Vega.

Funnily enough even at 3440x1440p you are gonna be bottlenecking that v64 by that 1800x. I had a r5 1600 oc to like 3.95ghz so pretty close to that 1800x with a V56 at 3440x1440p and in my games where i was running into CPU bottlenecks. Buy like a 5600 for 130€ on the cheap and enjoy way better performance.

Depends on the games to be honest. Older stuff? It'll beast it (yakuza, Valheim, Sekiro, Tales of, etc). New stuff at 1440p? Can drop a bit. Cyberpunk runs between 30 and 50 FPS (med mostly, FSR2.1), Dying light 2 struggles a bit to stay above 30-40 (and that's with FSR on and it smears badly).

Vega 64 is slightly below (minus ~5%) a RX 6600 performance-wise, so if you can't find Vega 64 benchmarks for modern games, you could try to check how they run on the RX 6600 to have an idea.

With love and respect, I used to run a V56 at 1440p/4K. You will want to upgrade.

Got mine for 100 bucks a month ago. Plays the new ASA on high settings.

Mine died the day Cyberpunk came out, hilariously. It was like "nope.". It was the special silver edition and it was beautiful. I still have it. The vapor chamber cooler fit perfectly on the backplate of my 3090 and I rigged up a little duct for the rear case fan to pull air through it. Lowered my backside memory temps a good bit. I do miss that card.

I just bought a used RX Vega 64 Reference for $60 to add to my collection after the original owner bought it in 2017 for $400 - amazing GPU, came to me complete in excellent condition and has never been taken apart.

Yes, it is. I have one and you will be good with a 144hz 1080p or 1440p monitor. In Far Cry 6 is runs natively just fine. You'll be happy.

I owned a Vega 64 and it has been my least favorite card to date. Instead look for 1080, 2060, or AMD RX 5700.

I saw some nitro Vega 64 in eBay for almost 180 usd, yo can game 1080p on high settings 60fps in almost every game today, 1440p using FSR Vega aged well, FSR also helps a lot.

Unfortunately not in open source - Linux, wish the driver would improve.

I have a Red Devil Vega 64 paired with a 5800X3D - in Assetto Corsa (Custom Shaders Patch with PureCandy PP Filter), I get ~80fps @1080P, with most settings set to Very High.

I enjoyed my Vega64 for many years but the best way I could describe it was that it was like driving a stick of a GPU. I needed my hand on the gear-shift for most of it's life.