So it is my semi quarterly forum post! I feel like I get the best answers from the Level1 community.
So I bought an openbox Strix Vega 56 from Microcenter a week ago. So far I’d say game performance across every game has been pretty awesome when compared to my MSI RX 480.
However I keep getting an alert the GPU is hitting 80C consistently, every hour or so. It hits that mark in Watch_Dogs 2 more often than not. I’ve read elsewhere, Vega is just a hot card over all. The thing that has me worried this card might be bad, and the reason for it being returned in the first place. I’m running into some artifacting blinking in Watch_Dogs 2. Almost as if the card is running too hot when the game is running. I’ll post a video or screenshots once I have it captured. Thoughts anyone?
Thanks @Streetguru. Yeah I’ll get full specs and the video up once home. I know the large geometry texture type is artifacting. this is more like blinking spots only on the left side. So I don’t know what to call it. Particle fail? Idk GTA 5 and Dishonored have been playing like champs.
I did do a visual inspection before buying. I’m hoping it was not a mining card prior.
Yes I am. I was going to move away from Sapphire because their RMA site is a joke from 1998, and follow up is worse. Strix is at 500. Maybe Asus screwed the pooch on this one.
That makes me sad. I just blew US$250 on a Vega 56. But, it ramps up pretty nicely with a Vega 64 BIOS. There’s still some room for tuning, but with the 64 BIOS it already runs pretty hot.
Still happens with undervolting, I would like @wendell thoughts on this, or others who can tell me what I’m seeing. Seems pretty bad with ubisoft 3rd person games. That consistent 80c with ubisoft bothers me a bit. I’m not quite able to find an official stance of what temp range should be at from Asus.
With further testing Watch_Dogs 2 seems to be the only game doing it. I was able to kind of replicate it by opening the escape menu and then closing it. While hot at 84c, I wanna say this is a software problem, but I can’t be sure of it. I wish I could find this same example no one else has seem to have posted with this same graphic artifacting. Maybe it is an ultra wide thing?
80C is normal GPU temp This is the temp where vega56 are ought to run. These GPUs can even run at 90C. But as you are saying that you are being notified about gpu temp, that’s a worrisome situation.
by the way did you buy new card or it’s the old one.
From what I’ve seen on my Vega (MSI Air Boost Vega 56 w/V64 BIOS), the HBM clock speed doesn’t start throttling until it hits 85C. It may make a difference that I have Samsung HBM.
