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I'm frustrated with Vega. I'm going back to Nvidia.
I had a pair of Fury X and they were very near perfect cards, so I expected the Vega to be of the same bloodline.
I bought a liquid cooled Vega to replace the Fury X cards with the intent to buy a second Vega LC down the line. Big mistake. I bought two Vega 56 to mine with on the expectation we'd see some sky high hash rates - which was a big marketing lie. The Vega 56 aren't really proportionally faster than the RX580 to make up for their cost/electricity use)
Unfortunately Vega's drivers are still very much in beta state IMO --- 2 months after release. (at least if you use multimonitor)
I've had my fill. It's time to bail. They'll get this fixed -- but I won't own these cards when they do.
I paid $812 for the liquid cooled unit on 8-18-2017, and $510 each for the two Vega 56 on 8-28-2017 - all from newegg. I've not registered them. You can do so and get the warranty. I'd say I've used each card about 50% of the time I've had them as I've been swapping back and forth between mining and gaming on the Vega 56. (undervolted to -24% power target). I didn't mine on the Vega 64 more than just a few hours to test it.
My prices best ebay and I'll include the original boxes, all accessories, and the original receipt.
PRICES DROPPED $15 - 25.
Sapphire Vega Limited Edition Liquid Cooled (aluminum) - $750 - now $725 **** SOLD on eBay for $700.
Sapphire Vega 56 - $450 - now $435 --***** SOLD on eBay for $460
PowerColor Vega 56 - $450 - now $425 - ****SOLD on eBay - this card failed on me today happenstance -- which is the last straw. I'm sending it back to PowerColor for an RMA, whenever their website actually begins to work (it's down right now). I'll be selling the RMA card I get back -- so the power color card is not available at this precise time - but it will be available in a couple weeks??? when I get the replacement back.
I realize this is a negative selling ad and not the best way to sell things -- however, I'm of the opinion anyone who wants these cards should be aware of the frustrations I've experienced with Vega as a day one adopter and AMD loyalist. AMD supporters are loyal to a fault - and I've held my tongue for the most part while getting increasingly frustrated with this nearly $2k of beta driver laced product line. Moral is still pretty high in the owners thread, and I suppose if you just use a single monitor - most of these problems are probably not as pronounced/present. However, I have three monitors, and I want to use them.
If you look back at my post history you'll see I was an avid AMD supporter with the AMD Fury X, which were truly an excellent card - both software and hardware... (though I did buy into the Fury X line when they were about a year old - so maybe that's why I dodged frustrations with that product line)
I do believe AMD will get the drivers straightened out for Vega - lots of years of history proves they will. I'm just not going to participate in this nonsense anymore in the meantime. I have limited time for gaming and I don't want to be fighting issues instead of just playing the game for the next six months. My time is more valuable than that. Maybe yours is too? That's why I'm giving full disclosure...
I had a pair of Fury X and they were very near perfect cards, so I expected the Vega to be of the same bloodline.
I bought a liquid cooled Vega to replace the Fury X cards with the intent to buy a second Vega LC down the line. Big mistake. I bought two Vega 56 to mine with on the expectation we'd see some sky high hash rates - which was a big marketing lie. The Vega 56 aren't really proportionally faster than the RX580 to make up for their cost/electricity use)
Unfortunately Vega's drivers are still very much in beta state IMO --- 2 months after release. (at least if you use multimonitor)
- 1/2 the time with driver updates Google Chrome pauses for 1 second when a video loads. AMD's fixed this issue, and then broken it again with driver updates.
- Freesync doesn't work in Eyefinity with multiple monitors, and it works, or doesn't work, on a single monitor intermittently based on whatever driver you happen to install. Id say it works less often than it does with the different driver variants.
- Bezel correction doesn't work in Vega drivers yet - (it's been two months AMD -- c'mon).
- They supposedly got crossfire working, but when I tried to crossfire my two Vega 56 I got barely better than a single card score in Futuremark, and 10FPS in Star Wars Battlefront (One of my favorite games for Eyefinity).
- Be prepared for the occasional (okay more than occasional in PUBG) bug in games where Vega cards crash - AMD will probably legitimately fix these issues - are you patient enough to wait for them to fix it? I'm not
- Don't even try PUBG at 1440p. Sure you get 90FPS and it'll be fine, until you get 8FPS randomly once or twice a map in the important firefight where you'll die -- especially while in a vehicle.
I've had my fill. It's time to bail. They'll get this fixed -- but I won't own these cards when they do.
I paid $812 for the liquid cooled unit on 8-18-2017, and $510 each for the two Vega 56 on 8-28-2017 - all from newegg. I've not registered them. You can do so and get the warranty. I'd say I've used each card about 50% of the time I've had them as I've been swapping back and forth between mining and gaming on the Vega 56. (undervolted to -24% power target). I didn't mine on the Vega 64 more than just a few hours to test it.
My prices best ebay and I'll include the original boxes, all accessories, and the original receipt.
PRICES DROPPED $15 - 25.
I realize this is a negative selling ad and not the best way to sell things -- however, I'm of the opinion anyone who wants these cards should be aware of the frustrations I've experienced with Vega as a day one adopter and AMD loyalist. AMD supporters are loyal to a fault - and I've held my tongue for the most part while getting increasingly frustrated with this nearly $2k of beta driver laced product line. Moral is still pretty high in the owners thread, and I suppose if you just use a single monitor - most of these problems are probably not as pronounced/present. However, I have three monitors, and I want to use them.
If you look back at my post history you'll see I was an avid AMD supporter with the AMD Fury X, which were truly an excellent card - both software and hardware... (though I did buy into the Fury X line when they were about a year old - so maybe that's why I dodged frustrations with that product line)
I do believe AMD will get the drivers straightened out for Vega - lots of years of history proves they will. I'm just not going to participate in this nonsense anymore in the meantime. I have limited time for gaming and I don't want to be fighting issues instead of just playing the game for the next six months. My time is more valuable than that. Maybe yours is too? That's why I'm giving full disclosure...
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