AMD VEGA 56 8GB GPU for $245 USD

TheRhino wrote on 5/4/2020, 1:53 PM

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-vega-56-rx-vega-56-8g/p/N82E16814930006

IMO $245 is a good deal on a new VEGA 56...  This year I got a used VEGA 56 for around $200 & prior to that I got a refurbished/open box liquid-cooled VEGA 64 for $350. Both provide excellent bang/buck performance in Vegas comparable to a pricier Radeon 7 or GTX 1080 / 2080 for much less money. In Vegas, these will outperform the newer AMD 5xxx series which is only a mid-range card aimed at gaming, but lacking the compute power of the VEGA / Radeon 7. Also, in Vegas Video, my VEGA 56 outperforms a similarly priced Nvidia 1660ti or pricier RTX 2060... The VEGAs have been around a couple years, so I haven't had any driver issues in Vegas. Mine are undervolted & the wattage consumed by Vegas is not as high as when running games...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

Comments

jasmohan-k wrote on 5/7/2020, 4:31 AM

which driver you used

gaming driver or Enterprise edition driver

last time i got problem thtat when i render with vce the card temrature goes to 100 degree and shut down pc

then i sent card for repair

they say ur card is ok check your drivers

i have vega 56 gpu

NickHope wrote on 5/7/2020, 7:04 AM

@jasmohan-k With my ASUS ROG Strix RX VEGA64 OC edition 8GB I have had black-screen GPU crashes with the Enterprise drivers 20.Q1.1 and 20.Q1.2, and also with Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.2. I'm now getting on OK (touch wood!) with 18.10.16 that is the last one listed on ASUS' page for my card. Full story here.

For the card that TheRhino links to, the version on the AsRock site is 18.5.1. I would suggest trying Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2 first as it's currently "recommended" by AMD, and if you have problems with that then go back to 18.5.1, or whatever is listed on your GPU's manufacturer's page. I'm now avoiding the Enterprise drivers for regular VEGA cards.

jasmohan-k wrote on 5/7/2020, 7:21 AM

thanks bro.

jasmohan-k wrote on 5/7/2020, 7:21 AM

is this same driver you used

NickHope wrote on 5/7/2020, 7:32 AM

@jasmohan-k No, I'm using 18.10.16, but 20.2.2 is my next one to try, if this one causes problems. And I might try it anyway. What brand and model is your card?

jasmohan-k wrote on 5/8/2020, 1:48 PM

i have vega 56 but thanks your support now it work fine its good for time line prewiew

i have great experience with amd r9 290 form last 4 years now its died

my cpu configuration - intel i7 4770 -32 gm ddr3 ram with c drive on 250 gb ssd

my experience uptil now with grpahic crads

these all testing on vegas 15 ans same project

1- amd r9 290 ( average gpu load - 41 % )

2- amd r7 270x ( 30 %

3- amd rx 580 ( 23 % )

4- amd rx 560 ( 43 )

5- amd vega 56 ( 27 )

from these all i am very happy with amd r9 290 gpu

but i found new amd rx 560 is very fast with rendering with vce in vegas 15 even more fast then vega 56 similar to amd r9 290

but not good for time line prewiev or other work becuase i feel some time lagging in normal work

but vega 56 is all best of them with time line preview and for other work it run my mouse cursor very very smooth

and amd r9 290 is winner here for all work

and rx 580 is good for time line and lower from amd r9 290 and rx 560

now i can not decide i should keep vega 56 or sale and try rx 570

thnks for let me share my experince with you from these 5 years

 

TheRhino wrote on 5/8/2020, 3:59 PM

I had a $130 AMD RX 570 in the same 4ghz 6-core Xeon workstation that I have the my used ($200) VEGA 56 in, and the VEGA 56 is MUCH better at previewing 4K & much faster rendering 4K... However, for 1080p the RX 570 was good-enough & not that far behind the VEGAs...

For a while I was using AMD 20.2.1 drivers and the OLD Intel 6373 drivers on my 9900K/VEGA 64 LQ...

I've recently installed Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.2 instead of the Enterprise driver. So far, so good... On my 9900K with liquid-cooled VEGA 64 I could previously get V17 to crash if I moved Vegas windows back & forth quickly between my 3 screens. However, my 3rd screen is running off the Intel iGPU, so I get a boost from Intel's QSV... Intel's latest driver seems to have helped & I moved all (3) displays to DigitalVideo ports vs. having one on HDMI so I think that has helped too.

All I know is that once I get a configuration working error-free I print-out a list of all drivers & make a backup image of the OS drive... Sometimes good settings are due to trial & error & other times just dumb luck...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...