I've had this card for 5 months now. Upgraded from a 280x, and have used it exclusively for gaming. Mainly, I upgraded to a monitor with a resolution of 3440x1440, and also started playing Tom Clancy: Ghost Recon Wildlands. The old 280x couldn't take it. Neither could a crossfired pair of them.
Enter the Vega: FE, Liquid Cooled Edition.
This card makes short work of the games I throw at it. I'm pretty sure I'm bottlenecked by my CPU now (i5-2500k). On the benchmark of Tom Clancy, I get at least 34 FPS at 3440x1440 on Ultra preset, usually more like 45 AVG. I'm happy with that, personally, as I grew up on the original Halo: Combat Evolved (30 FPS on the original xbox). Everything else I play is just laughably simple for this card.
True to the memes about AMD graphics cards, this card ages like fine wine. On release, it traded blows with the Nvidia 1080 (consumer flagship), and in October of 2018, it now trades blows with the 2070 RTX. Sure, it doesn't have the Nvidia-specific RTX cores, but no games use them anyway at the time of writing.
If you're into hard numbers, this card will do 13.7 TFlops (single precision). That's better than a 2080ti, which posts 13.4 TFlops (and that card is $200 more expensive, without liquid cooling). This card also comes equipped with a nearly-indecent 16GB of graphics memory. You'll have the choice to run gaming drivers or professional drivers, easily toggled from within the driver menus. Also, as all recent AMD graphics cards do, this card supports Freesync.
The only aspect of this card worthy of any hand-wringing would be its power consumption. It is a toaster oven. Fortunately, I live in the grand old US of A, and if I ran it balls-extended for 8 hours every day, my power bill would go up by $10/month (including overhead of the rest of the computer and a lamp). If you can afford Netflix, you can afford the power consumption of this card.
TL;DR: If you like AMD better than Nvidia, or you want professional drivers for less-than-professional prices, just buy this.
| Memory Speed | 1 |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 16 GB |
