Vega 56 Sapphire Review

It comes at an affordable 399 price point with a slightly reduced shader count that actually improves things greatly.

Vega 56 sapphire review.

For example power efficiency now trades blows with some pascal cards which means less heat and noise too. The amd radeon rx vega 56 was the second tier option in the 14nm vega family and that would have normally made it our price performance favourite but the vega 56 was always onto a bit of a. The saphire vega 56 is fast quiet and has no coil whine. Radeon rx vega 56 has the potential to be a geforce gtx 1070 killer if amd can make enough of them to hit its pricing target.

Uk pricing isn t confirmed but a simple conversion plus 20. Amd radeon rx vega 56 8gb 1 156mhz gpu 1 471mhz boost 1 6gbps hbm2 radeon software adrenalin 17 12 1 nvidia graphics cards aorus geforce gtx 1080 ti 11gb 1 569mhz gpu 1 683mhz boost. I paired it with a 750 watt psu which works amazingly and i ve never seen the temps go over 66c here on the oregon coast. Radeon rx vega 56 is the second amd vega card launched today.

Launching today is the sapphire nitro version of both vega parts. Although the card uses a lot of power kicks out quite a bit of heat. And it s a cute little card. Sapphire s nitro rx vega 56 8g is a distinctly high end implementation.

Unfortunately it s also difficult to find as the company. Vega 56 was a power pig and navi has gone a long way to correct that.