AMD RX Vega Fire Strike scores appear, FE scores about GTX 1080 performance

[Humbug]

10 hours ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

If it's anything like Hawaii, a regular aftermarket cooler won't even do the trick. You'll basically need water cooling if you want reasonable temps and noise.

LOL, what are you talking about. Hawai never needed a water cooler. The problem with Hawai was the crappy reference design.

I am the proud owner of a sapphire R9 290 vapor-x. Also ships with significantly higher core and memory clocks.

 

 

 

 

 

[Humbug]

Also interestingly Vega is actually quite cool running when you consider the high TDP and blower coolers that we have got so far.

People assume the chip stays hot when they see the TDP numbers.

 

The below test was done by Gamers Nexus to show what temperature various GPUs can maintain at a fixed noise level. The coolers were not allowed to spin up past 40dBA.

 

 

This is a very good performance from a blower cooler for a high TDP card. It means that for whatever reason Vega is very efficient at dissipating it's high heat output...

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

7 hours ago, Humbug said:

LOL, what are you talking about. Hawai never needed a water cooler. The problem with Hawai was the crappy reference design.

I am the proud owner of a sapphire R9 290 vapor-x. Also ships with significantly higher core and memory clocks.

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting. My 290X still puts out a significant amount of noise when I put in on full load. It doesn't get 90+ degrees hot, but it's generally hovering around 85-88.