With the Powercolor RX Vega64, the circle of all graphics cards we have tested so far with AMD's Vega chip closes, because there are no more really produced and traded custom designs on the market, you can see from Sapphire's Pulse, but never so never which the Nitro was to inherit as a "low-cost" variant. We haven't heard or seen anything about XFX, so we've ticked off this model.
But back to the tested map, which we really liked. Starting from AMD very good reference board, Powercolor has modified it a little for its own purposes and above all added a magnificent cooler, which lives up to its name. Even if the card was trimmed to cool performance rather than acoustic restraint, the result is not intrusively loud, but really cool.
If you want, you can do this much quieter by leaving the card a little more room for manoeuvre at the temperature limit. Depending on the housing, 75°C can already perform acoustic miracles as a new upper limit. You will have to test it out if you could somehow get such a card and then it should become too loud for you. In the open housing, the Bolide is really quiet, but this is already a little unpractical, even if it likes to be tested like this.
The performance is typical of Vega and, as with the other cards, is subject to the voltage specifications and the power limit along with temperature development. A greater overclocking margin without manual intervention and overwriting BIOS registers with suitable software tools does not remain and the OC mode is rather theoretical, as with the reference card, because apart from loud and hot, hardly a real one added value. However, this should not bother anyone with this particular model, because it affects all Vega cards equally.
Conclusion
Well done, Powercolor! Like Sapphire, Powercolor has sent a heavy battle horse into the race, which never hyperventilatingly gets down on its knees, but never overheats even at full load. Noise and performance are good, even if there are certainly alternatives in the green warehouse that are currently easily available and also more economical. Depending on the game, the performance crown goes well between the Vega and the tested GeForce GTX 1080, just like our test sample, which seems to have wandered by more hands than many experienced dockworkers.
In the end, however, only the result counts and that is not a bad thing. One can live with this, even if there are currently serious shortages of physically existing and also somehow still affordable specimens. But, as we all know, hope dies last. hopefully.
- 1 - Einführung, Unboxing und technischen Daten
- 2 - Spannungsversorgung und detaillierte Platinenanalyse
- 3 - Gaming-Performance in WQHD (2560 x 1400 Pixel)
- 4 - Gaming-Performance in UHD (3840 x 2160 Pixel)
- 5 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail
- 6 - Temperaturen, Taktraten, OC und Wärmebildanalyse
- 7 - Kühlerdetails und Geräuschentwicklung
- 8 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit
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