Vega 56 Sapphire Review

We ve got the rx vega 56 for review which retails for a cool 569.

Vega 56 sapphire review.

Vega 56 was a power pig and navi has gone a long way to correct that. I paired it with a 750 watt psu which works amazingly and i ve never seen the temps go over 66c here on the oregon coast. Unfortunately it s also difficult to find as the company. Sapphire s nitro rx vega 56 8g is a distinctly high end implementation.

The saphire vega 56 is fast quiet and has no coil whine. Uk pricing isn t confirmed but a simple conversion plus 20. Launching today is the sapphire nitro version of both vega parts. Although the card uses a lot of power kicks out quite a bit of heat.

Here we see that total system usage has been dropped by almost 40 with the 5600 xt that s obviously a huge power saving so. Radeon rx vega 56 has the potential to be a geforce gtx 1070 killer if amd can make enough of them to hit its pricing target. Radeon rx vega 56 is the second amd vega card launched today. Amd radeon rx vega 56 8gb 1 156mhz gpu 1 471mhz boost 1 6gbps hbm2 radeon software adrenalin 17 12 1 nvidia graphics cards aorus geforce gtx 1080 ti 11gb 1 569mhz gpu 1 683mhz boost.

As far as we ve seen it s the best cooled rx vega 56 out there. For example power efficiency now trades blows with some pascal cards which means less heat and noise too.