[The Exiled]

OC3D AMD RX Vega 64 and Vega 56 Review

Heat and power draw have long been the AMD Achilles heel and the Vega cards are, to some degree, no exception. Certainly the power draw is insanely high. Whatever changes AMD have made to the architecture they haven't improved the efficiency as all but the stock Vega56 draw more power than the already thirsty Fury X. That makes the Vega64 a much harder proposition to recommend. It feels like a card from a generation ago. It's toasty, it's extremely power hungry and the performance is good but unspectacular given the pricing. Even if the launch "with a very very limited number rebate" pricing was in place you're talking about a card that's hotter, thirstier and louder than a GTX 1080 card for the same money and performance. At a bigger price those flaws only become more difficult to ignore. A quote we got from an industry insider last week pretty much says everything "Vega? Its just another AMD GPU. Its too hot, uses too much power and isnt as quick as any of us wanted".