XFX Radeon Rx Vega 56 8GB 3xDP HDMI Graphic Cards RX-VEGMLBFX6 review

XFX Radeon Rx Vega 56 8GB 3xDP HDMI Graphic Cards RX-VEGMLBFX6 review

XFX Radeon Rx Vega 56 8GB 3xDP HDMI Graphic Cards RX-VEGMLBFX6 review

Hey so finally I can take a look at the RX Vega 56 by AMD - well technically this one's by XFX but it's aimed this reference design so yeah it's not that easy picking up a retail version of this thing and to let you guys know this isn't even mine this graphics card has kindly been sent over for testing by Stefan Miller a friend of mine and true supporter of the channel so huge thanks goes out to him for actually making this Vega videos possible now in terms of pricing it's a 

difficult situation because right now the time of writing the script such a reference design of the Vega 56 comes in at a whopping or even more and availability isn't particularly great spec wise it's a completely new card coming with 8 gigabytes of HP m2 v RM and a relatively high TDP of 210 watts we'll see what's up with that soon unlike the Vega 64 DRX Vega 56 currently can only be purchased with this pretty standard reference design and plastic shroud no fancy aluminum as seen on the limited edition version of the Vega 64 or liquid-cooled 

versions however aib card shed follow soon so we will see some factory overclocks as well as better coolers aesthetically speaking though I've always been a fan of a nice reference design not necessarily so much of the noise level even though it's plastic the GPU is quite heavy duty aluminum under the shroud and the build quality is not that bad actually a standard blower style fan takes care of pushing air through the fence and once the card is installed in one system it does come with some LED lighting as well the radiant logo lights up and this GPU attack not 

it's all great but let's fire up some benchmarks ,so obviously as you've seen the RX Vega 56 is not a bad graphics card as some have stated it's about on par with and videos offering the gtx 1070 and bear in mind I didn't have a reference design or founders Edition on hand to run tests against it was a factory overclocked one by gigabyte meaning the gtx 1070 had a clear advantage over this reference model vega 56 still it did really 

well especially in games like Battlefield 1 and rise of the Tomb Raider where it even beats the 1070 however at least for now it's not all perfect it seems there's still some driver optimization needed since the Vega cart performed quite poorly in Crysis 3 for instance and in many cases still is behind the gtx 1070 but it can be seen battlefield 1 and tomb raider as what gives you a good idea on what to expect in the near future once drivers have matured as for the 

temperatures come on it's the reference design it does pretty good actually but it's kind of noisy although not unbearably noisy as it was the case with aim these reference coolers and something like the 290 acts now in terms of power consumption many claimed Vega is a very power hungry card however when left at stock settings it consumed only roughly 20 watts more than my gigabyte gtx 1070 i mean it's not as efficient as invidious offering but it's no deal-

breaker although spoiler alert once you start cranking up the clock speeds the watts climb faster than you might wish let's talk pricing right now such a Vega 56 can be found for like more or less a gtx 1070 from one of the board partners on the other hand can be picked up so the only thing that's problematic here in my opinion is not so much detective performance no it's solely be pricing 

I'm not sure who's at fault here the retailer's aim D or the miners maybe if I was you I'd wait until there are more Vega 56 GPUs available from partners like issues MSI gigabyte and the likes preferably at a lower price so I mean the radian rxt vega 56 certainly is a good cart at ever needs driver optimization and a more appropriate price performance wise I for sure can recommend the Vega 56 but I don't want to award it anything at this time since it really depends on the final pricing which yet has to be seen .


 AMD graphics cards are worth it and if they can hole up that value three years down the line when we all move on to more higher resolution higher graphically intense and cooler and better looking PC games now we already know that specifically for this video a used rx 585 70 and Vega 56 present tremendous value and excellent gaming performance for 1080p games especially for casual gaming like pub G fortnight apex Legend and csgo those games are an absolute piece of cake on these cards but what the real question I want to ask is if especially if 

this is gonna be your first graphics card for your gaming PC and say you don't have the funds to upgrade to a new card for another two to three years I think it's important that you know what you're getting into especially if you take that bet of going with a used graphics card because of course these aren't the latest and greatest we have the brand new aim D Navi rx 5700 which is another value centric card that is expensive but it does have the latest seven nanometer technology which has presented so many benefits to high resolution PC gaming that 

I would be great for games like cyberpunk 2077 and the inevitable Elder Scrolls 6 but if you go with one of these used cars with older technologies and you know not as fast of speeds are you gonna be stuck whenever you move on to a 1440p gaming monitor or a 4k gaming monitor and say you want to run the next Triple A PC game that from like EA Ubisoft are these cars going to be able to hand it or are you to be out of luck so that phenomenon is what we're gonna be 

exploring in today's review so if you enjoyed these value analysis videos of graphics cards ,since we're all about budget PC tech and gaming and making sure you get the most bang for your buck and also since we have a bunch of other cool videos coming out like an upcoming PC build using Rison third gen if you don't want to miss that then hit that Bell notification button and if you're feeling generous and

 you want to how about this review and the algorithm then do three to drop a like that would much appreciated and would probably give the exposure to this review needs that would be really helpful for people looking at these cars especially on the used market so I think it's inevitable that 1440p is going to become the standard for PC gaming real soon considering how cheap 1440p 4k and ultra wide monitors are getting and TVP I think is soon going to phase out especially two or three years down the line and I mean if here to even look at my PC gaming 

setup from 2013 I started off with a basic 1080p a server gaming monitor but fast forward two years upgrade to a 4k monitor so I'm already making the jump to 4k in 2015 and I'd of course had to adjust for that and now I'm rocking two 4k monitors which are soon going to be a single ultra wide high resolution gaming monitor so I really think that at some point we're all gonna be moving on from Tandy P which is the exact topic I'm gonna talk about on these cards but I 

usually don't talk about use gaming graphics cards because like I said they don't have the latest and greatest in technologies but there are a lot of things that are actually running in favor for these cards specifically which I think are worth mentioning for one they all have a gigabytes of vram which is really nice for high resolution gaming since more vram allows for higher texture qualities and graphics settings especially at higher resolutions and all these cards offer that at a 

budget price on the use market but if you look at the bigger picture I think more and more PC games are gonna be actually optimized for these AMD graphics cards because not only have triple-a Studios like EA and Ubisoft I actually purposely designed their games to run better on these cards just like the division to World War Z Resident Evil 2 those sort of games but also the next generation of consoles so the PS 5 in xbox 2 are running on AMD Navi graphics so 

AMD hardware so any sort of co-develop PC games that are also going to be put on PC like Gears of War 5 and the inevitable and most definitely looking forward to halo Master Chief collection are gonna probably run better on AMD graphics cards over Nvidia so there's a lot of good factors for why do you want to get these cards on the use market just considering but on a realistic testing level will that actually hold up and that's what I'm going to be benching in this 

video for you guys today through some benchmarks so with that out of the way let's talk about the cards that we're looking at for today so first we got the RX Vega 56 this is a graphics card that goes for used on eBay and this has 8 gigabytes of HBM to memories not that regular old GDR 5 or GDR 6 memory this has really high dense HBM to memory which is actually kind of a rarity nowadays the one thing to know if you are gonna get 

this graphics card is that as you can tell there are two eight pin connectors so this is a very power hungry card and from when I was personally using it there was some coil whine when I had the FPS set to unlimited or no vsync and whenever I went ahead and like did windowless or not witless borderless on some games so this is the most expensive card on this list but I think it definitely deserves a spot since it is such a popular card to get used next here we have the much popular and most definitely more available rx 580 this you can get 

 used on eBay and this is most definitely the most popular card on this list it has 8 gigabytes of gddr5 memory and it has a TDP of 185 watts so not as power-hungry as that card but as you can tell by how beefy this cooler is it does still put out some pretty nasty heat because the architecture for this card was made back in 2016 so do keep that in mind when you're looking at these benchmarks the RX 580 and rx 570 are at this 

point three year old graphics cards and again we're working with an 8 pin and a 6 pin connector so still a decent amount of power but most definitely on the higher end next up we have the rx 570 and you get this on eBay  and again this also has a gigabytes of vram if you just had to go with that model and it has a much lower TDP it has a 120 watt TDP as you can see it just has a single 8 pin connector and I'm just going to tell you 

guys this right now straight up it's a much cooler and much quieter card more so than the 580 and Vega 56 and it's the cheapest one out of the bunch and still has a gig use of memory which is good for high resolution gaming so if you're interested in actually getting one of these used graphics cards from a site other than eBay Macari or Craigslist that's something that's more designed for PC hardware that I'd actually recommend checking out PC swaps comm they're 

basically eBay 2.0 for specifically PC Hardware through offering really handy features that I think are left out of major used marketplace websites such as specific filtering to find an exact PC part you're looking for reinforced buyer protection hassle free shipping for buyers and sellers no auctions which is actually something that I kind of dig and they even offer a peer-to-peer connection between you and your buyer or seller so you can have direct uninterrupted 

messaging over the parts you're interested in and selling or buying something I think that's really left out of those major eBay retailers or Craigslist buyers that you have to contact over email or phone so PC swaps comm is something really to look forward to if you're tired of selling or buying used hardware on eBay Macari and so on and so forth so a link to their website will be at the very top of the description so going back to the video we're gonna be 

going ahead and testing these games on more than just the casual PC games that we're accustomed to like apex legends pub g4 night those sort of games we're gonna be testing them hard at 1440p and 4k resolution just like I said at the beginning of the review on the most graphically intense games that I have on my Steam library so hopefully this will give a rough idea of the future proofing that these cards can enable you if you were interested in getting 

them so hopefully that will give you a view on that we'll be testing each of these cards on a rise in 3600 MSI B 450 motherboard and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory running at 3200 megahertz so I think definitely a realistic scenario if say you wanted to get the latest and greatest in CPU technology but you don't have that many funds left for a graphics card brand new so you decided to go use one of these cards I think that's probably a perfect gaming PC for these sort 

of cards if you were going to go used so here I've chosen five games that I think will best illustrate this again those being Resident Evil 2 Forza horizon 4 Wolfenstein the new Colossus anthem and Metro Exodus so looking at anthem at high settings all these cards did a decent job they're roughly spaced out of course the 56 well it's the fastest card out of the bunch but here you can see sort of a good idea of the performance differences between these cards more 

notably than 56 I think has the best time running this game and especially if you didn't care running anthem and high settings like medium settings right you'd probably get above 60 frames per second which is definitely playable especially at 1440p which is what you're gonna want to be aiming forward the 580 and 570 I don't think have enough firepower even here it'll dim it down to low settings but I'm moving on to Resident Evil 2 on the graphics priority at 1440p we can see that all these cards ran the game beautifully at above 60 frames per second 

and I think this is an important title to include because like I said at the beginning in the review more triple-a studios are designing and optimizing their games for AMD hardware so Resident Evil 2 is a great example of that and here we can say they did a beautiful job in all these cards and there's no problems whatsoever so if we had any titles like that then we'd be in a perfect world for these cards but on the contrary how about an Nvidia optimized title so Metro Exodus 

and here at the high preset at 1440p all these cards struggled and actually here you can see that the 580 and 5 cent he had a three frames per second difference so not that much but the 50 secs does pull out ahead the most however all the cards were not able to achieve at that 60 frames per second minimum that we want for 1440p gaming now let's go ahead and move on to the to 4k titles on a test for starting off with Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus which uses the Vulcan 

API and I went ahead and ran the game at 4k Ultra settings and don't get that confused Ultra settings is actually like medium settings for Wolfenstein you can actually take this out for yourself it's actually medium settings so here are the three cards and their frames per second averages and I think this is important to include as well because it is using the Vulcan API which is not that readily you on PC games but it runs so good on AMD hardware so if you 

decide to run the upcoming doom internal or Detroit become human port on PC those offered the Vulcan API which run stupendously well on AMD hardware and here you can see that the 56 has absolutely no problem at 4k which is a really impressive result and I think just as impressive because the 4k kind of glosses over it is that the 580 and 570 I think more impressively the 580 runs the game at 4k and not a terrible poppy framerate below 30 frames 

per second if you were to probably run that game at 1440p all these cards wouldn't have an issue maxing that game out at 60 frames per second but now let's go ahead and close up the 4k benchmarks but Forza horizon for my favorite PC game right now until the Master Chief collection which on the topic of that is a co-developed console title from Xbox on PC and here we can see that the 56 has no problem running at 75 frames per second and more impressively the 580 and 570 run the game at not 60 frames per second but if you were to dim down the 

settings to medium I could totally see the 580 reaching 60 and the 570 getting close to 60 frames per second and that's at 4k again in from around 1440 P these cars are probably easily have a good time and running that game because it's soba optimized for AMD so for my concluding thoughts if you should go used for an AMD graphics card right now for 2019 and hopefully keep it because of course you know you don't want to spend more money on a GPU upgrade 

one year later whenever you first load your PC that just be a waste of money right I think these cards hold their value in certain areas because as we just saw there were a few titles in this comparison for benchmarks that ran actually impressively well in these cards even going at absurd resolutions and settings that you wouldn't realistically go at for like starting off your first gaming PC like if you probably wanted to play Forza horizon 5 whenever that comes out 

in like 2022 you could probably do that on like the 580 at 1440p at 60 frames per second I wouldn't be surprised if that were an issue and again the 56 is probably the best card out of this list to use I actually really recommend that card because it looks like it can handle a lot of things many years down the line though there are caveats because if you decide to play an Nvidia optimized title like the upcoming cyberpunk 2077 that's gonna be optimized for NVIDIA there's no doubt about it The Witcher 3 which was CD Projekt RED 's previous title 

from that was really good optimized for Nvidia so if you run into that scenario like with Metro Exodus you're gonna have a bad time but of course if you're in it for the casual gaming that you know it's like pub G fortnight those sort of titles where they're intentionally designed to be optimized for pretty much everything for maximum exposure and playability then I think you wouldn't have that much of a bad time with these cards though I wouldn't bet yourself on it unless they're totally in it for aim the optimization you might be better off getting a brand new

 card but the latest and greatest in technology like the rx 5700 or any of the new RT X or GT x 1600 series graphics cards but if you just need like a placeholder card so say if you have only to spend on a graphics card but like a year down the line you'll get some more Christmas or birthday money that's like for like one of these cards right here then one of these parts for a placeholder could be a smart choice because they're really cheap inexpensive 

and you could probably resell them for a decent price so that is my synopsis on these used ami graphics cards and if they're gonna be worth it right now in 2019 and onwards whenever we move on to more higher resolution more graphically intense PC gaming .

XFX Radeon Rx Vega 56 8GB 3xDP HDMI Graphic Cards RX-VEGMLBFX6 review

 our arts Vega 56 and 64 we held the celebration the likes of which no other tech tuber has ever seen will never see again actually we bought a new camera with the money but seriously though the vega cards were hot messes that didn't perform anywhere close to as well as many of us were hoping for gaming and we're just generally dissed extremely disappointing cards regardless of how many comments tell me I 

should lower my expectations of them and love them for who they are cuz don't we know that AMD tried their best in game and thanks to one of their few saving graces their impressive mudding performance they were also extremely hard to find not not only just bad at gaming they're hard to find and stupendously expensive and if you're one of the few who didn't care about any of that another major issue was the complete lack of custom cards coming out of your favorite manufacturers it took about six months before any third-party versions of the 

cards with superior cooling first started hitting the market come on AMD but a at least custom cards did come out eventually and even taking arcs vague as many faults into account they're still more than capable gaming in mining cards in fact barring its price at the time the Vega 56 proved especially capable so when would give us the opportunity to review XFX is custom Vega 56 double edition we jumped at the chance the double edition which shouldn't be confused with 

XFX is 1st Vega 56 the boring reference model is the company's first truly custom Vega 56 meaning a vastly different look and hopefully much improved cooling performance  price tag on the technical side of things there's literally no difference between the reference model 56s and XFX is double edition unlike a sources raagh Strix Vega 56 gaming OC or sapphires nitro 56 s XFX is custom card doesn't feature bumps in 

base or boost core clock frequencies you're getting the base Vega 56 in almost every way possible when it comes to what's inside however it's the outside where things are to get interesting-looking past the cards aesthetic design which will crap on I mean a discuss in a second the cards PCB is surprisingly where it differs for most other Vega 56 models where the PCB young cards like the after mention rocks tricks and natural cards run on almost the entire 

length of the cards the PCB on the double edition stops about halfway through with the rest of the space being taken up by the cards cooling solution and shroud it's a strange decision by XFX but one that became slightly less strange when we looked into it according to various outlets Vega cards don't require a full-length PCB with everything needed for the car to work fitting snugly in about half as much space but since the cards run really hot they require full-

length coolers so instead of cutting the PCB in half and just letting the shroud and cooler occupy the entirety of the leftover space AMD decided to use a full length PCB in the reference designs primarily to simplify auxiliary pci express power cable management for end-users which basically means aimed II didn't want users having to connect the power cables to the center of their cards because that would be weird well XFX has been known to embrace the 

weird on occasion and they certainly did so with the double edition leaving half the PCB intact and plopping down the power connectors in the middle of the car the cards other main difference is also its primary selling point it's double dissipation cooling system it features dual 90 millimeter fans that are optimized to lower the overall noise levels without sacrificing cooling efficiency and a unibody heat sink which XFX claims enhances thermal efficiency by 40 percent 

but before we test that claim let's discuss the elephant in the room oh there's an elephant in here anyways the elephant in the XFX is room X if X is double edition RX making 56 is the big old ago if you think otherwise well you're allowed to be wrong now before I dive into it I want to express the XFX has a soft spot in my heart they wore the manufacturer of my very first graphics card the XFX 8600 GT which I got at CompUSA back in my high school days I have a 

warm place in my heart for XFX but this is probably one of the ugliest cards I've ever worked with my disdain is all entirely due to the fact that the card looks like it's spent decades wearing a corset that slightly tightened around it crushing all of its important bits so much that everything just kind of shot out of the sides the poor thing looks like it was torture the reason XFX decided to go through this design is obvious though as we discussed earlier since they 

couldn't place the PCI Express connectors at the end of the card because they went with the shrunken PCB they had to put them in the center and since they couldn't exactly fit a regular shroud over said connectors they decided to design a shroud that leaves room for them and did the same on the other end because why the heck not but just because it had to be done doesn't mean I have to like it but while we're on the topic of things I don't like about the design I'm also not a fan of the bland red fans the carbon-fiber inspired finish because it's carbon-fiber 

inspired not actual carbon fiber the single non RGB red LED lit XFX logo or the sharp cuts and edges of the shroud just not my thing it looks like XFX tried too hard and too little all at the same time and just know XFX know I understand where you're coming from it kind of looks similar to your you know your rx 580 model but then at the same time because you have to plug the power connector in the middle and you squeezed it even more it just doesn't work whatever these cars are for mining who cares what they look like you just slot him in a 

thousand row and then you're good to go surprisingly though I did actually really like one aspect of the cards aesthetic design and that was the backplate in the side shroud directly connected to it the backplate features a very understated XFX logo accompanied by a tasteful Vega decal as well as various cutouts holes in light and dark finishes that really reminds you that you're dealing with a premium product even if the other side of the card screams otherwise 

which to be fair if you're putting this in a gaming system the only thing you're gonna notice is like the fact that you have to stick the power connector in the middle or you're not gonna see the red fans or the carbon fiber inspired finish you're gonna see the back plate which is good-looking and then the side of it which is okay so you know depending on how you install it it couldn't have to be okay now of course looks are totally objective and some might really enjoy 

that cards design and the whole shroud basically looks like an X for X effects but I just don't all of that aside though it's time to get to what's really important here performance more specifically we'll be looking into how the card performs in games just how much better XFX is custom cooler really is and after that we'll take a look at mining performance so here are the results we got when using the card for what it was intended we ran all gaming benchmarks at 1440p with quality settings set to their absolute maximum and without any anti-aliasing applied 

the card performed about as well as expected at these settings with not a single gain averaging below 30fps including more graphics intense games like Deus Ex mankind divided and more recently Assassin's Creed origins it also made mincemeat of the likes of Metro last light Middle Earth shadow of war and rise of the Tomb Raider averaging 59 FPS or above in those games now all everything seemed in order here we had a sneaking suspicion that something wasn't 

exactly right so even though we hadn't originally planned to compare the cards benchmarks with a reference model we tested all those months ago because we don't have it anyhow to test again because we had to sell it to get the new camera we used a different system back then as well with the different CPU and we changed up which games we benchmark now we're glad we took a look at some numbers from the previous the card previous card that's why I'm trying to 

say we originally tested the reference Vega 56 model at the exact same 1440p resolution with the exact same quality settings but we actually turn on anti-aliasing instead of turning it off completely like we do it this time this would surely mean that the reference card would return worse results than the XFX model almost unanimously only that's not what we found in fact even with the extra strain being put on the reference card by the anti-aliasing it scored 

noticeably better than the XFX card in more than a few games and ashes of the singularity the reference card pumped out about three additional fps in hitman the number jumps to almost a FPS in shadow of war there was a 6 FPS difference and in 3d Mark Steyn spied GPU score there was an equally worrying disparity the reference models victory and a few of the other games was a little less pronounced than the XFX card did perform much better than the 

reference card in the deus ex benchmark but still there's little reason why the XFX card shouldn't wipe the floor with the reference model we tested so long ago drivers mature and improve after all so what gives no wallets highly unlikely considering the massive differences between the testing environments for both cards we tentatively suspect the AMD the highest bidding Vega chips and stuff them into their own reference designs we've heard rumors as to this before but until we can get to the exact same two cards in the room we can't really 

speculate about that too much all we know is that we saw slower clocks and worse performance anyways let's move on to my ting performance since that's what you're probably be doing with this card when you're not gaming you think we don't know but we know now we have a ton of experience when it comes to mining with Vega we even made a review entirely dedicated to it so we mostly know what we're doing with X if X is Vega 56 first we decided to run the card without any funny business going on mining with aetherium kryptonite and just for funsies the echo hash algorithms while mining aetherium the card managed a pretty good hash rate of 

thirty four point six mega hash per second mining on the ever popular kryptonite algorithm and maxed out at one point zero three to kill a hash burst I get in on the equi hash algorithm which is really better suited for in video cards it pushed out 410 souls per second those are our key numbers for a bone stock Vega card but that's kiddie stuff we know how to get the most out of a Vega 56 so let's stop playing around here the first thing we need to do is kick their original Vega 56 BIOS to the curb and swap it out with a fresh new Vegas 64 BIOS to unlock higher 

overclocking settings because we're all about voiding warranties like that and crashed and crashed again maybe we'll try a different bio and crash mm-hmm what about this BIOS crash what the flippin fudge eventually we did successfully flash a Vegas 64 BIOS onto the card but when used as the primary GPU we couldn't get it to boot into Windows something we never really had an issue with when working with the reference card luckily when slotted into the

 second PCI Express slot in the motherboard the big X affects 56 flashed with the 64 BIOS worked like a charm and we saw significant hash rate gains in each algorithm we tested a theorem shot up to an impressive thirty-seven point two mega hash per second crypto knights saw a slightly lower bump only reaching 1.1 to 5 kilohertz per second and equi hash topped out at four hundred and seventy two point four souls per second but of course that still wasn't 

enough to draw out the cards true mining prowess in order to do that we also need to overclock it to its limits and optimize it for true unbeatable efficiency this means under clocking the cards core clock to eleven hundred and two megahertz accompanied by an undervolt of around 900 millivolts overclocking the memory to 1100 megahertz also accompanied by an underworld of around 900 millivolts and then all that's left to do is set a more aggressive Bank herb and voila 

more crash and goodness followed by even more crashing so those are pretty intensive optimizations but the reference 56 didn't have too much trouble staying up and running at those specific settings and managed in the theorem hash made of around 41 to 43 mega hash per second but whatever dropping memory clocks little isn't a major train crash so that's what we had to do again and again and again until we eventually settled on a setting that didn't 

instantly that killed the card that being 1020 megahertz on the memory unfortunately that setting resulted in noticeably less impressive hash rates than we would have liked to see on etherium the double edition managed to squeeze out on an additional few mega hash topping out at around thirty nine point eight mega hash per second on the other two algorithms we test it we saw similar small but worthwhile improvements with crypto Knight maxing out just shy 

of 1.3 Killa hash per second and echo hash topping out at 513 souls per second while we weren't bothered with testing the echo hash algorithm back after when we reviewed the reference Vega 56 we did test crypto night algorithm and managed to actually break the to kill a hash barrier on occasion but for whatever reason that seemed an impossible dream for the X FX's card okay so the results for the X effects Vega 56 double edition have been a little bleak so far and as we've repeatedly mentioned that could be due to various factors including the most likely case 

that we were just unlucky in the silicon lottery but it's about time we talked about an area where this particular Vega 56 should shine the brightest it's cool then unsurprisingly it shines brighter than my uncle's bald forehead after a good polish okay maybe not that bright but still at idle in a particularly sweaty office the double edition card really got hotter than 32 degrees Celsius which is six degrees cooler than what we saw with the reference model so we expected 

maybe a three to four degree difference there so it's already proving to be more capable than we thought next up we recorded the average maximum temperature of the card after multiple gaming sessions and we were even more impressed with XFX his cooling system which only let the card hit a maximum temperature of 67 degrees compared to the reference designs concerning 74 degrees while we didn't record mining temperatures during our reference Vega 

56 review we did with the double edition which max out an unmanageable 72 degrees at a 60% fan speed 60% not 60 percent as impressive as the results are they're not exactly unexpected reference blower salad coolers just can't hope to match the cooling performance of the third-party designs sorry guys the light turned off nothing I could do I've add the double additions much improved heat sink additional super speedy fan and better vrm and memory cooling 

capabilities completely wipes the floor with the reference design and it also does it had a far more manageable noise level or the reference design sounded like a jet taking off whenever it went above 70 percent speed the double additions fan only really became unbearable to listen to when it hit around 90 percent utilization luckily because of the card's phenomenal cooling we can't recall it needing to go that high more than once in our many days of testing no matter how hot it got in the office with mining and all that such this card was a hard one to review though 

we've worked with XFX cards in the past and they've more often than not blown us away in terms of performance I mean we even crowned the XFX Arc's 580 Black Edition the best gaming and mining 580 on the market we know they produce quality cards that go head-to-head with any other in their category but that wasn't the case with what we found with this particular card we can overlook a shroud design that's not exactly to our liking and we can 

overlook various other flaws but we can't overlook the numbers and unfortunately the numbers aren't what we expect of an XFX card overall it performed worse than the reference model in both gaming and mining performance during our testing one affected by the system difference the other not so much doesn't matter what you're running with mining if it's not getting the same performance and though we've said it before we'll say it again this could be up to various factors including getting a lesser bin chip but we can only report what we saw that being said 

though the performance gap between the two is small enough not to throw xf X's card out of the race it's spectacular cooling performance across the board alone keeps it in the running if that's something that's important to you as well as it should be so if you can find one at a reasonable price which is the difficulty with Vega 56 is at this point I mean where has this one going for 11,400 I ran a GTX 1080s going for 12,000 499 I ran but where has the palette 1070 ti going for 

just under 10,000 ran which the 1070 TI is a much better gaming card so if you're looking for gaming it that palette 1070 TI from them but for mining obviously the optimizations that you can make for Vega 56 that's where the higher price comes in and then so on and so forth so it's up to you but it could be the perfect addition to your gaming rig but for the mining side of it it's hard to recommend because we just weren't able to squeeze out of it everything we could with a

 reference 56 when we get 1.8 to 1.9 kilowatt on a reference on a bad day but only pump out 1.3 on the XFX because we can mod the buyout we can't mod the bios as well it seems like a worst card this could be just because we couldn't find the right biggest 64 BIOS to put on the card and there might be one out there that all unlock the mythical crypto night performance but we only found bugs and hardship which I guess is good news for gamers I suppose if the aftermarket cards are having a harder time being modded for mining and require more work 

in input through the less likely to be gobbled up by the masses and could be left on the shelves meaning we could finally see Vega cards start selling for less and buy less I mean they'll come down from there Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan premiums and just be at in an uncomfortable price hike like their Nvidia counterparts but none of this is to say that XFX Vega 56 isn't worth lying just that it's a bit more of a fight to get it to where you want it to go performance might be 

a little lower but noise and temperatures are phenomenally improved to make it a great choice over reference if you're looking to mostly gain.










XFX RX Vega 56 Video Card - Game Better


Everything will be at their best. 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture combines with 3rd Gen 14nm FinFet manufacturing process and HBM2 to push performance and efficiency to a new level. Be awed by the magnificence of 4K and VR with Freesync technology and AMD LiquidVR technology. Cooling capacity will roar to the highest level at high loads, and fans will stay silent at low loads. You can configure multi-GPU setup with CrossFire for multiplying performance, or even hook up the video card to a notebook with AMD XConnect technology.




Radeon Vega 56

Experience extreme gaming with 56 compute units, HBM2, and Freesync technology

Step up to new generation Radeon RX Vega graphics and lose yourself in the greatest high-end gaming and virtual reality experiences with Radeon FreeSync technology. Radeon RX Vega graphics are built with a forward-thinking GPU architecture to deliver exhilarating performance in the newest DirectX 12 and Vulkan games on the latest displays.

Next Gen Compute Units

These revamped nCUs (1 nCU = 64 stream processors) are designed to operate at incredible clock speeds and deliver extreme gaming experiences with the newest high resolution and high refresh rate monitors.

Revolutionary Memory Engine

State of the art memory system shatters the limitations of traditional GPU memory, to tackle the growing high res texture packs in today’s games.

Optimized Pixel Engine

Optimized rasterizer technology enhances rendering efficiency and leaves more headroom to crank up quality settings while maintaining smooth 3D rendering.

Enhanced Geometry Engine

The enhanced geometry engine can efficiently process millions of polygons that make up your game, helping boost FPS.



AMD High-Bandwidth Memory 2

World’s first graphics card with on-chip High-Bandwidth 2 Memory

HBM is a new high-performance memory standard with vertically stacked DRAM dies and fast microscopic interconnects called through-silicon vias (TSVs). The three-dimensional die stacking and tiny interconnects allow for superior bandwidth at lesser power consumption than both GDDR5 and DDR4. This is an incredible advance in power and efficiency, and means 60% more bandwidth than traditional GDDR5.



AMD FreeSync Technology

No stuttering. No tearing. Just gaming.

Gaming shouldn’t be a choice between choppy gameplay and high performance. With XFX Radeon graphics and FreeSync technology, it doesn’t have to be. Transform the most demanding games into a liquid-smooth, artifact-free, 4K cinematic experience with the highest performance at virtually any frame rate. FreeSync works at the speed of your game for incredible responsiveness and uncompromising smoothness. Every gamer deserves perfectly smooth gameplay and peak performance. Unlike the competing technology, you don’t have to choose with FreeSync technology.



Radeon CHILL Technology

Smart GPU control

Radeon Chill is an intelligent power-saving feature for Radeon graphics that dynamically regulates framerate based on your in-game movements. During peak gameplay, Radeon Chill works to deliver the full framerate potential of Radeon graphics. As movement decreases, Radeon Chill reduces your gameplay framerate. Designed to save power, lower temperature, and increase GPU life, Radeon Chill enables high performance graphics when you battle and saves power when you explore.



Radeon ReLive Software

Share your victories

Effortlessly capture, stream, and share your memorable moments and clutch victories with Radeon ReLive. Included free with the Radeon Crimson Software Package.



AMD VR Ready Premium

For extraordinary virtual reality experiences

Experience the new generation of compelling Virtual Reality content with the Radeon RX Vega graphics card paired with the leading VR headsets. The Radeon RX Vega graphics card coupled with AMD LiquidVR technology delivers a virtually stutter-free, low latency experience, essential for remarkable Virtual Reality environments. Industry leading innovation and powerful performance enables the Radeon RX Vega to deliver premium experiences on high-end VR games, entertainment, and applications.



Designed for Vulkan Cross Platform Graphics

The next generation graphics API from Khronos

Vulkan is the new generation, open standard API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs. This ground-up design, previously referred to as the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative, provides applications direct control over GPU acceleration for maximized performance and predictability.



Microsoft Windows 10 and DirectX 12

Optimized for gaming performance

New features and functions bring new computing experiences to life with AMD Radeon graphics on the Windows 10 platform. Take your gaming further with XBOX ONE on Windows. Play and connect with your games and friends. Everywhere.

Microsoft’s new technology enables great performance and dramatically improved GPU and CPU multiprocessing and multithreading performance. That is thanks to Async Shaders and Multi-threaded Command Buffer Recording for more efficient rendering of richer and more complex scenes.



3rd Gen FinFet 14nm Technology

Unprecedented efficiency on GPUs.

The 3rd Generation FinFET 14 process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling dramatic increases in processing power and power efficiency.

Helps provide better processor performance while using less power and enabling better transistor efficiency than previous generation technology.



AMD Exclusive GCN & Crossfire Technology

The Ultimate Compute Architecture with Multiple GPU Scaling

Discover the direct-to-the GPU performance advantage of Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, enabling stunning detail and dynamic gaming, a richer and more immersive VR experience, with exceptional graphics performance and low power consumption. 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture features asynchronous shaders and an enhanced geometry engine, so you can enjoy exceptionally smooth gameplay on the latest DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles.

AMD CrossFire technology lets you connect multiple graphics cards to amplify your system’s graphics processing capability including enhancements that set a new standard of consistent and smooth gameplay.





AMD Eyefinity Technology

Multidisplay technology for gaming, productivity and entertainment.

Expand your territory and customize your field of vision. Connect up to six displays on a single GPU for dynamic, panoramic multi-screen gaming. You’ll get an expansive experience that’s truly out of sight. (Additional displays may require the use of MST hub.)



Radeon Software

A premium set of driver utilities.

As sophisticated as the Vega architecture based graphics cards are, the software that powers the cards is equally as sophisticated. Radeon Software delivers the ultimate in performance, features and stability to help ensure an exceptionally smooth and fast out of the box experience.

With Radeon WattMan (formerly AMD Overdrive) – Push your hardware to the limits. Radeon Settings takes customization to a whole new level with per state control over clocks, voltages, and temperature.


Latest Display Connections

Ready for the latest displays

Radeon GPUs with the Vega architecture support HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.3 for compatibility with a new generation of monitors that would make any gamer excited:

• 1080p @ 240Hz • 1440p @ 240Hz • 4K @ 120Hz • 1440p ultra-wide @ 190Hz



Extreme 4K Gaming for Serious Gamers

Experience resolutions up to four times higher than HD and see everything your opponent throws at you without sacrificing a single detail.

Teleport into life-like 4K gaming realism with AMD Radeon RX Vega Series graphics. Reign over all the action in 4K with supercharged performance and HBM2 memory. Add more muscle with AMD CrossFire technology and amplify your gaming performance with the superior scalability with multiple RX Vega Series GPUs.



AMD XConnect Technology

Great performance, even on the go.

Should a PC gamer on the go buy a gaming notebook that’s tough to carry, or a thin notebook that’s tough to game on?

AMD XConnect unlocks the best of both worlds on systems designed for Thunderbolt 3 eGFX enclosures. Finally you can use a desktop graphics card on a notebook



Learn more about the XFX RX-VEGMLBFX6

ModelBrandXFXModelRX-VEGMLBFX6
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express 3.0
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerAMDGPU SeriesAMD Radeon RX VEGA SeriesGPURadeon RX Vega 56Core Clock1156 MHzBoost Clock1471 MHzStream Processors3584 Stream Processors
MemoryEffective Memory Clock800 MHz (1.6 Gbps)Memory Size8GBMemory Interface2048-BitMemory TypeHBM2
PortsHDMI1 x HDMI 2.0bDisplayPort3 x DisplayPort 1.4
DetailsMax Resolution4096 x 2160RoHS CompliantYesEyefinity SupportYesCrossFireX SupportYesVirtual Reality ReadyYesCoolerSingle FanSystem RequirementsMinimum Power Supply Requirement: 750WPower Connector2 x 8-Pin
Form Factor & DimensionsMax GPU Length283 mmCard Dimensions (L x H)11.14" x 5.12"Slot WidthDual Slot.

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