Unfortunately you can pretty much forget about overclocking. Thankfully noise levels are well under control. In our testing the card got up to 83c, which is high but not horrible. “If you have a Freesync monitor or just love team red the Vega 64 will serve you well” Perhaps AMD can find some performance gains over the life of the card, in DirectX 12 or Vulkan games that can make full use of the Vega feature set. The minimum we’d expect given the GTX 1080 has been around for 18 months and uses much less power. The card is sort-of-cool, quiet and about as fast as you’ll get from an air cooled Vega ▼Asus has done its best with their RX Vega 64. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕. Performance is pretty good and it trades blows with the GTX 1080, which is good to see, but that’sħReview earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases. The Asus GPU Tweak software has been updated with easy to set OC profiles in addition to full manual control for the more advanced tweaker. For example, an adjacent case fan can ramp up to push additional air towards the card while under heavy load. One of the little things we really like is the inclusion of a pair of fan headers that can synchronize with the card for optimal cooling. This means all bases are covered with the latest video capabilities. The card has a total of five video outputs consisting of two DP vl.4, two HDMI 2.0b and one DVI-D port. There’s also a supplemental RGB header that supports Asus Aura Sync for matching the colors to the rest Of course it wouldn’t be a gamer oriented product without RGB onboard, and Asus have included RGB lighting on the back plate and on the shroud of the card.

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