PowerColor RX VEGA 56 8GB NANO Edition Review
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Published: 20th June 2018 | Source: PowerColor | Price: |
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The PowerColor RX Vega 56 Nano will hardly win any design awards, but if you're in the market for something that has no frills nor fuss made about it then it's the very graphics card for you. Particularly if you're keen on the 2001 Monolith iconography.
You get a really good sense of how, well, nano the Nano is when you see it from the back. Unless you've already got a micro GPU in your system then you'll be aware of how large the X crossbrace is and thus how diminutive the PowerColor Nano is.
Outputs are three DisplayPorts and an HDMI, whilst power input is handled by a 8+6 pin arrangement. Just because the card is small in size doesn't mean it is small in capability.
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What an odd GPU. I mean, the design of the NANO Edition is very good, but the BIOS seems a bit odd. Then again, Vega is just an odd architecture so I'm not really sure if PowerColor were just trying to pick the better of two evils. Users can still use Radeon Chill (which is excellent) or MSI Afterburner to hit the numbers they prefer. I wouldn't buy one of these necessarily over a 1070 or 1070Ti for a compact system, but it does seem like a cleverly-designed iteration.Quote
Would be interesting to see how it does under water. ITX cases with small GPUs just makes it 10000x easier to build a loop in. If it's anything like that last nano it's just a few % slower yet at half the power draw.Quote
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Originally Posted by NeverBackDown
Would be interesting to see how it does under water. ITX cases with small GPUs just makes it 10000x easier to build a loop in. If it's anything like that last nano it's just a few % slower yet at half the power draw.
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Even if you knew that or weren't referring to it, I still love saying it. It reminds me not to trust even guys as down to earth as Raja who make bold claims about their gear.Quote
I'm referring to the previous Fiji and fiji nano cards. I want to know if this is the same situation when overclocked. Within few performance difference yet half the power draw when under water(under water that way we don't get thermal throttled)Quote
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Originally Posted by AngryGoldfish
Power consumption with undervolting (but still no OC) in Tom's testing show it's higher than at least one overclocked 1080Ti.
Even if you knew that or weren't referring to it, I still love saying it. It reminds me not to trust even guys as down to earth as Raja who make bold claims about their gear. |
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