When the heck are these non-reference cards coming out?!? Not a team red fanboy, but want my GPU to be future proof being virtualized with ESX.
SPOILER > 3x 8 pin 
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Two for power, one for âLOOK HOW OVERCLOCKABLE THIS THING IS!!!â
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True. Even with a 3 fans, aftermarket cooler. Pulling 3 x 8 pin power will set fire to your PC 
The XFX card looks neater imhoâŚ
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I think itâs pretty cool that so far the AIB versions weâve seen are so different. More choices for different purposes methinks.
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Indeed, the article also noted that the card might not be finished yet. So it might still changeâŚ
If thatâs the case, then it needed a fourth one for delivering a furnace.
âWinterâs Never Comingâ
I like how wccf doesnât mention why the chart was taken down and just throw it in there.
more cut copy and paste journo, Vidcards seems to be the better site.
WCCF atleast does link to the original.
Hi guys,
I have gathered some questions that you might be able to help me with regarding Vegas performance in some edge cases.
How does the HBCC impact performance in workloads that use a lot of VRAM compared to small VRAM usage and CPU rendering due to no HBCC capabilitys like on NVIDIA cards.
The question came up while talking with some dude who had 3Titan Xes for Blender Rendering.
He additionally needed some crazy dual Xeon setup to render stuff that didnât fit in VRAM.
The question basically is:
Does VEGA with HBCC expanded VRAM, perform good enough to be able to combine and rival such a setup?
I have a Vega64 and 32GB RAM myself so i will start testing this on my own in the far future once i find the time.
But it is the âfar futureâ due to me not having any experience with blender or any other things i currently do that fall into the same realm.
Iâm just very curious about that since i couldnât find anything closely related to that online.
Additionally, i couldnât find information on the âCrossfire, ehem mGPUâ and dual Vega HBCC situation and what it even does in those cases.
Does it combine itâs VRAM over HBCC to 16GB ?
Do they become rainbow unicorns and fly you off to AMD Headquarters ?
Iâd like to try that, but a second Vega64 is still far away for me : (
Thanks in advance
Sincerely RageBone
You could check out this thread as well: Blender Benchmarking (2x Rx580)
I donât have any time at the moment to do testing, but Iâm not going to get much further than you as I only have one card as well.
Wtf how did I miss this. This is more important than the hardware!! Lol.
Vega and AMD gfx in generaly is a minority vs Nvidia on games. There is software to be dialed on on drivers (amd) and games (developers) that can leverage Vega and even the FP16 performance.
But if humans dont make the code to use it. It will be silicon burning power for nothing.
Games are the shittiest code on the planet. Often rushed and pushed out early.
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you are totally right.
But that wasnât the question
Lets assume that Vga64 is close enough in performance to rival the titan XP or XPp (what a bullshit name) under some circumstances like price to performance etc.
If Your Task is VRAM constraint and likely to breach the amount of available VRAM, you are basically fucked for days or money.
If Vegas performance doesnât drop bad enough with HBCC expanded VRAM to fit the task, then Vega could become the next Go To GPU for such Tasks.
And it shouldnât be that hard for vega to be better then CPU rendering.
The question was: Is that assumption right?
Sincerely RageBone
Yes. I can render gooseberry blender benchmark on one card that a 1080 canât due to not enough vram. It is absolutely faster than CPU.
Good question, usually no. âUsuallyâ it will use the max available from the card which has the least. I am not sure if using Radeon Pro Render changes that though, as it will also use a GPU and CPU in combination for rendering. Also you can set HBCC on both cards individually up to 40GB each.
I have two, but do not have access to a scene large enough to test that yet.
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Interesting news for AMD Radeon users on Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-DC-Pull-Request-4.15
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Anyone know where I can grab the latest staging/testing kernel for vega? Got an arch install I want to try to get this working on.
Annnnnd 7 minutes late I find it. For arch users its in the AUR in case anyone else is wondering.
just got my vega 64. whats the first thing i should do? should i flash the watercooled bios on it?
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