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Weve known this was coming for a long time, as AMD has been talking about it and hyping it for seemingly forever, and now the time for talking is over because we finally have all the information we need to render our verdict on Fijis successor. Lets dive in. AMD is coming to market with two GPUs based on its 1. Polaris 1. 0 architecture the Vega 6. Vega 5. 6, priced at 4. AMD is also introducing a new GPU bonuses bundle called Radeon Packs, which you can read about here. Essentially if you spend 1. GPU you can get discounts on Free. Sync monitors, Ryzen CPUs, and games. Its a fun idea, and if youre in the market for an AMD GPU you should get a Free. Sync monitor to go with it, so be sure to check them out. Theyre kind of convoluted with how they work so well spare you the details here, but just follow the link above for more details. Here are the latest articles published on Toms Hardware. See the latest news, reviews and roundups and access our tech archives. To get started you will need to obtain a mining wallet to collect your digital currency, mining software, and of course your trusty PC equipped with a worthy miner. To thoroughly evaluate a PCs performance, you need to use multiple tools and utilities specifically designed to tax each major component. We show you. A graphics processing unit GPU is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame. While the technical aspects of the cooler are certainly nice, it cannot compete with NVIDIAs reference design cooler visually, which is without a doubt the best. High End Video Card Chart. This chart made up of thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily with new graphics card benchmarks. The new Radeons RX Vega GPUs are the flagship gaming models of the companys all new Polaris architecture, which first debuted with the RX 4. GPUs. Now AMD has bumped up everything, going from a 2. RX 4. 80 to a 4. 86mm squared die on these two GPUs. For comparison, the GP1. GTX 1. 08. 01. 07. Vega is quite a bit larger. Its even bigger than the GTX 1. Tis 4. 71mm squared die. Both of these GPUs are competing directly with the GTX 1. GTX 1. 08. 0 Ti, which seemingly will remain the king until the next round when AMDs Navi arrives at some point in the future, but at that point Nvidia will have Volta ready too, so around and around we go. Our guide shows you what to look for when buying or upgrading your video card, including sidebyside spec comparisons and the latest reviews of the toprated GPUs. Both Radeon Vega GPUs have the same basic specs, though the 6. It also consumes more 8. Both of the GPUs I received for testing looked identical in every way, and are typical Radeon reference design boards with illuminated Radeon logos and dual eight pin power connectors. Given the GPUs high power requirements, at least relative to their Nvidia counterparts, AMD has implemented a few technologies to reduce power consumption. The reference cards I received featured a switch on the GPU itself that allows you to switch to an alternate VBIOS that shaves between 1. Yes, there are three power profiles available in the Radeon software Power Saving, Balanced, and Turbo. Looking for a gaming PC Here are the best gaming desktops for any budget, including consolesized PCs and highend rigs that are VR ready. Theres also Radeon Chill, which limits on screen action when needed to keep temperatures down. The big news with these GPUs is that they employ what AMD called a High Bandwidth Cache, which is comprised of 8. GB of second gen High Bandwidth Memory, aka HMB2. Instead of the usual 2. GPU this memory sits on top of the die via an interposer, and has an incredible 2. This allows the memory to run at much slower speeds than the GDDR5 used by Nvidia while achieving similar results. If youre concerned that 8. GB of memory isnt enough, and you should be if you want to run games at 4k resolution, AMD allows you to allocate system memory that is pooled with the onboard HBM2 via a slider in the software. An AMD rep I spoke with about it called it a forward looking feature, noting currently it wont offer much benefit. By default it seemed to automatically allocate half my test systems memory, and there was no way to fine tune it to just use one or two gigabytes, so it seems kind of beta still. AMD is also introducing a new display refresh technology called Enhanced Sync which seems like its designed for folks without a Free. Sync display, but AMD notes it is compatible with refresh sync technologies. According to AMD if your games framerate exceeds the displays refresh rate typically 6. Hz it allows the framerate to stay where it is instead of lowering it to 6. Hz, and shows the last completed frame on each interval, theoretically reducing input lag. If your game dips below the refresh rate it will disable V sync and allow tearing, again to reduce input lag. You can set it globally for all games or per game via the Radeon software. Enhanced Sync. Both the Vega 6. I received are identical, and are 1. PCI Express slots. Both card have three Display. Port and one HDMI port. Both cards also feature a strip of LEDs above the PCIe connectors that display the current GPU load. They are labeled GPU Tach and go from one light illuminated when the card is idle to all of them lit up when the GPU is at full throttle. It looks kind of cool, but I sort of wish theyd dance a little bit like the LEDs on RAM. GPU Tach. Benchmarks. To see what the Vega GPUs are capable of we tossed them into the IGN test bench, which was built with an Intel Core i. K non overclocked CPU, 8. GB of DDR4, an Asus Prime Z2. Intel SSD. We compared them to the GTX 1. GTX 1. 07. 0, and also threw in some 1. Ti benchmarks too since youre probably curious about that. All tests were run at three resolutions with the maximum in game settings possible without any anti aliasing. I set both Radeon GPUs to their Turbo setting for maximum performance. I was the one who reviewed the Radeon Fury X, and the Vega 6. GPU. It was only able to beat the GTX 1. DMark and Batman Arkham Knight, but trailed by a decent margin in the rest of the tests, which is disappointing. Though this is obviously not an exhaustive benchmark suite with 2. Frontier Edition, its doubtful theres a silver bullet game or driver that will miraculously catapult the Vega 6. All available evidence shows the Vega 6. Brian Mcknight From There To Here Download. GTX 1. 08. 0 in pure performance, and this is even more puzzling due to the fact that its using a lot more power. The reference design Radeon Vega 6. Hawaii in fact, and was a toasty 8. C throughout testing. It ran at 1,6. 30. MHz when set to Turbo mode in Watt. Man. Its definitely the fastest current Radeon GPU and it is awesome for 2. GTX 1. 08. 0. Its close, but the advantage is clearly in Nvidias court in this round. The saving grace is if you toss a Free. Sync monitor into the equation, you should have a much less expensive setup than one with an Nvidia card and a G Sync monitor, since those tend to run about 2. AMD counterparts. The Vega 5. 6 is a much more compelling GPU than the Vega 6. GTX 1. 07. 0 in terms of performance, power consumption aside. To illustrate this battle lets take a look at just these two GPUs at the three resolutions. As you can see these two GPUs are extremely close to one another, and were trading blows throughout testing. It was such a back and forth that its difficult to say one is categorically better than the other unless you bring power consumption into the equation. If you do that then clearly the GTX 1. I dont think desktop users care too much about power consumption unless it leads to things like excessive heat and noise. On this front the Radeon 5. MHz in Turbo mode and operated at 7. C under load after several hours. Id say it was a bit noisy but less so than the Radeon 5. Generally speaking all reference designs run hot and are a bit loud, which is why we always advise to wait for the partner boards to arrive since they solve these issues. Purchasing Guide. AMD is selling the Radeon RX Vega 6. Vega 5. 6 coming in a few weeks. It has an MSRP of 4. MSRP as its already sold out on Newegg at 5.