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Asus did a great job designing a sharp-looking Radeon RX Vega 64 card that performs better than AMD's reference implementation. We would have liked to see the company put a thermal pad between its PCB and backplate, though, to counter high board...
The Asus RX Vega Strix 64 OC is the perfect card for someone who's looking to upgrade to buttery smooth gameplay at 1080p or even at 1440p. It can even run some games smoothly at 4K but falls just short of the 60 fps at 4K Mecca. Compared to the...
You know, I keep thinking, what if. What if AMD had Vega ready like a year ago, battling the GTX 1080. I think it would have been received completely different. People most likely do not frown that much upon the higher power consumption, the performance...
At first, we would like to thank AMD for sending out the ASUS ROG Strix RX Vega 64 OC Edition 8GB Video Card in order to check out its performance and features.“Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor...
IntroThe ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64 OC is a video card based on the most recent generation of GPUs from AMD. It has 4,096 cores and 8 GiB HBM2 memory. Let's check how fast is it.There are, to date, two models of GPUs of the new family from AMD:...
If we put aside price inflation currently, ASUS has developed a very strong AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 competitor. The ASUS ROG STRIX RX Vega 64 O8G GAMING is a robust video card that is well cooled and has a factory overclock that brings the performance to...
ASUS's modifications to the Vega platform are great and really give the Vega64 room to breathe. That being said, it really feels like there is more under the hood waiting to be tapped here with even more advanced cooling. Effectively removing north of...
Asus has taken the standard reference design of the Radeon RX Vega 64, and added its own superb features… turning it into something quite different. The large heatsink and 3 fan wing-blade design, provides superior cooling and what's more, it comes...
PriceMuch like most GPUs right now, the stock is pretty baron. Nailing down a proper retail price is not easy, although any other models that are in stock vary from £600 to around £650. You can pick up a powerful Strix GTX 1070 for around £488, while a...
It is probably safe to say that the Vega GPU didn't appear in quite the blaze of glory that we were all hoping for. Certainly it just about matches up to the GTX 1080 in performance, but the pricing issue has been complicated and the power draw was far...
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