Vega 56 Sapphire Review

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

Vega 56 sapphire review.

It comes at an affordable 399 price point with a slightly reduced shader count that actually improves things greatly. Sapphire s nitro rx vega 56 8g is a distinctly high end implementation. Although the card uses a lot of power kicks out quite a bit of heat. Unfortunately it s also difficult to find as the company.

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. Vega 56 was a power pig and navi has gone a long way to correct that. The saphire vega 56 is fast quiet and has no coil whine. And it s a cute little card.

The amd radeon rx vega 56 was the second tier option in the 14nm vega family and that would have normally made it our price performance favourite but the vega 56 was always onto a bit of a. As far as we ve seen it s the best cooled rx vega 56 out there. 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. 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.

For example power efficiency now trades blows with some pascal cards which means less heat and noise too. Launching today is the sapphire nitro version of both vega parts.