PowerColor Vega 64 Red Devil Review
Test Setup and Overclocking
Published: 29th November 2017 | Source: PowerColor | Price: £589 @ OCUK |
Test Setup
PowerColor RX Vega 64 Red Devil
Intel i7 6850K
ASUS X99 Strix
Corsair ROG Dominator Platinum 3200
Corsair RM1000i
Corsair LX 512GB OS
Corsair LS 480GB x2 Raid0 Games
Corsair H100i V2
Windows 10
Overclocking
Curiously the overclock mode on the Red Devil just adds more volts, which isn't the best method of overclocking a RX Vega GPU. Instead it's all about thermals and the power target. Therefore we actually found we were getting worse scores with the overclock BIOS than we achieved with the standard one. But we wouldn't be called Overclock3D if we couldn't overclock 3D cards, so with the BIOS set to standard we manually overclocked it to achieve our OC results today. As you can see the Red Devil doesn't challenge the cards at the top of the graph in the average Boost Clock results. We'll see how the scores are affected.
It turns out our OC mode issues were driver related. By the time you get yours at home though it should all be fixed.
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
It's beautiful though. *sigh*. Such a shame PC suck at everything but making their cards desirable. The RX 480 should have been much better than it was, too.
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Theres nothing 'wrong' with this card. The limitations always are the core....
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
Ah OK. Was just going on the comment above. The 480 one was pants though. Sapphire was much better at clocking etc. Still preferred the Devil for looks though
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This is a cracking card but any issues are just down to the fact its Vega sadlyQuote
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Yeah, I can really see the appeal of wanting to buy one of these.