Rx Vega 56 Air Boost 8g Oc Review

Commodity index:

• 1 – Overview
• 2 – Gallery
• iii – GPU Data
• 4 – Benchmarks
• 5 – GPU Bun-in Test
• vi – Conclusion

1 – Overview

MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 AIR Boost is based on a manufactory-overclocked RX Vega 56 GPU (Vega 10) with a boost clock speed of 1520MHz (the reference RX Vega 56 has a boost clock of 1471MHz). With both GPU Caps Viewer 1.38 and GPU-Z, the heave clock of this sample is higher: 1622MHz. The RX Vega 56 features 3584 shader cores (56 compute units), 224 texture units and 64 ROPs.

The RX Vega 56 AIR BOOST has a blower-based VGA libation: The blower takes the cold air, pushes it through the card and hot air is ejected via large holes (this is the particularity of the Air Boost model) at the rear. That'south a blower cooler!

The homepage of MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 AIR Boost tin can be plant Hither.

2 – Gallery

All photos have been taken with a Samsung Galaxy S7 mobile phone. I received the card without box so no pictures of the packet.

The RX Vega based graphics cards are available with a GPU tachometer (GPUTach): it'southward a strip of 8 LEDs that shows the GPU usage. Two colors are available: blue and ruby-red. The GPUTach tin be disabled also.

3 – GPU Data

iv – GPU Benchmarks

Testbed configuration:
– CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700
– Motherboard: MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon
– Memory: 16GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator Platinum @ 3000MHz
– PSU: Corsair AX860i
– Software: Windows ten 64-scrap + AMD Adrenalin eighteen.i.ane

four.i – 3DMark Sky Diver

36988 (graphics:59621, physics:14558, combined:24083) – GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING – R390.65

36772 (graphics:58413, physics:14721, combined:24008) – MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost – Adrenalin xviii.1.1

36060 (graphics:56088, physics:14722, combined:23976) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – R390.65

30729 (graphics:41314, physics:14652, combined:24092) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC – R390.65

28286 (graphics:36014, physics:14640, combined:23354) – MSI Radeon RX 470 – Adrenalin 18.1.ane

28779 (graphics:36846, physics:14720, combined:23798) – MSI Radeon R9 290X – Adrenalin 18.1.1

4.2 – 3DMark FireStrike (1920×1080)

15873 (graphics:22514, physics:16544, combined:4850) – GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING – R390.65

13680 (graphics:18368, physics:16575, combined:4317) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – R390.65

13457 (graphics:18753, physics:16488, combined:3966) – MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost – Adrenalin eighteen.1.1

11061 (graphics:12977, physics:16525, combined:4250) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC – R390.65

10785 (graphics:12647, physics:16416, combined:4119) – MSI Radeon RX 470 – Adrenalin eighteen.ane.1

10706 (graphics:13178, physics:16344, combined:3662) – MSI Radeon R9 290X – Adrenalin 18.1.one

4.three – 3DMark FireStrike Ultra (4K / 3840×2160)

5597 (graphics:5553, physics:16584, combined:2894) – GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING – R390.65

4585 (graphics:4628, physics:16348, combined:2135) – MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost – Adrenalin 18.1.ane

4549 (graphics:4492, physics:16031, combined:2300) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – R390.65

3103 (graphics:3005, physics:16201, combined:1578) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC – R390.65

3001 (graphics:2962, physics:16353, combined:1413) – MSI Radeon R9 290X – Adrenalin 18.1.i

2861 (graphics:2837, physics:16443, combined:1316) – MSI Radeon RX 470 – Adrenalin xviii.1.ane

4.iv – Unigine Superposition – 1080p Medium – Direct3D

4.4 – Unigine Superposition – 4K Optimized – Direct3D

4.5 – FurMark ane.20

P1080 (1920×1080)

P2160 (3840×2160)

4.half dozen – Rhodium LC

Rhodium LC (LC for Liquid Carbon!) is a new GPU pixel shader benchmark made with GeeXLab and based on this shadertoy demo. Y'all can download RhodiumLC from THIS Folio.

P1080 (1920×1080)

P2160 (3840×2160)

iv.7 – MSI Kombustor 2017 – TessMark X32 OpenGL

MSI Kombustor 2017 (v0.six.two.0) is the new version of MSI Kombustor. For this test, I used TessMark X32 which is an OpenGL 4.0 tessellation criterion with a tessellation level of 32. Y'all can download MSI Kombustor 2017 from THIS PAGE.

P1080 (1920×1080)

v – Burn-in Test

This burn-in exam has been done with FurMark 1.20.

As usual, the first affair to do befor running a stress test is to set to the max the power target limit. I used AMD WattMan for this job. The RX Vega 56 Air Boost has a max power limit of 150% TDP (value read in GPU Shark) which is very nice. So I set the ability limit to 150% TDP. If you don't prepare the power limit to the max, the GPU is throttled as well much when FurMark is running. I also did a test with default power limit (100%TDP).

Hither is how to set the ability limit with Adrenalin + WattMan (hither the power limit is set up to 120% TDP):

Idle state
– full power consumption: 55W
– GPU temperature: 28°C

Load country – 100% TDP
– total power consumption: 275W
– GPU temperature: 73°C
– GPU cadre clock: 1120MHz

Load state – 150% TDP
– full power consumption: 385W
– GPU temperature: 78°C
– GPU cadre clock: 1294MHz

A crude estimation of the power consumption of the RX Vega 56 is:
P = (385-55-20) * 0.9
P = 280W

where 0.9 is the efficiency factor of the Corsair AX 860i PSU and 20 is an estimation of the additional CPU load when FurMark is running.

Even with the power limit set to 150% TDP, the GPU does not run at boost clock speed under FurMark: 1294MHz while official boost clock is 1520MHz.

At idle state, the GPU temperature is low (28°C) and the blower cooler is serenity. In load, it's another story: the temperature can reach 78°C and to correctly cool to GPU, the blower is getting noisy: around 52dB measured at 30cm.

Thermal imaging

idle land

load country

half dozen – Conclusion

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a solid alternative to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. Both GPUs are neck and neck: depending on the exam, the RX Vega 56 is faster or slower than the GTX 1070.

The RX Vega 56 has a TDP of 210W but with two 8-pin ability connectors, the Radeon RX Vega 56 can draw upwardly to 375W. I prepare the power limit to 150% TDP (the max!) and the carte du jour has flawlessly passed all burn down-in tests with a ability draw close to 300W. The blower cooler is a bit noisy in load but does its job correctly. At idle, the carte is placidity. The card has a backplate and the GPU tachometer (or GPUTach) is a nice gadget!

The only effect with Radeon RX Vega cards is that… they are not available! This MSI RX Vega 56 is the offset RX Vega graphics card I can play with. It was time!

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Source: https://www.geeks3d.com/20180129/msi-radeon-rx-vega-56-air-boost-8gb-oc-review/#:~:text=The%20Radeon%20RX%20Vega%2056,can%20draw%20up%20to%20375W.

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