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Sapphire RX Vega 64 Nitro+ Limited Edition – better than GTX1080?

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013’s Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.

It uses a Direct X 12 capable engine.

At 1080p and 1440p, we use the Very High quality preset and 2x SSAA. At 4K we use SMAA. The DirectX 12 API is used. Numbers are taken from the benchmark’s Geothermal Valley test.

In ROTTR the Nitro+ Vega 64 really closes the gap on Nvidia's GTX 1080, coming within 0.4 FPS of it at 4K. The gap is wider at 1080p, as expected, but Sapphire's card is definitely competitive across all three resolutions.

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13 comments

  1. Seems like a no brainer to skip the early vegas cards and stick to a 1080GTX if you want performance for the money. The 1080TI absolutely runs the vegas architecture in its current form into the ground, but at the extra cost, the 1080GTX looks like the best thing going.

  2. …better than GTX1080?

    TL;DR Nope!

  3. Not sure why latest driver’s weren’t utilised? I’m pretty sure UK has internet! 😉

  4. Guachi sol '' beio beio ''

    i can’t see the ” better performance ” of gtx 1080.-

  5. It really depends on the game and card settings
    A 1070 can beat a Vega 56 sometimes
    Undervolt, oc and raise its power limit and within like 5 minutes it trades blows with the 1080 and Vega 64

    Throw that same card into gta and it gets floored
    The Vega cards are a really weird series overall
    Also this is crimson not adrenalin

  6. Still considering getting a VEGA, looks to me the better future proof card. But I’m thinking the PowerColor Red Devil instead of the Sapphire one, looks better and that cooler also seems to cool things down more.. waiting for the reviews.

  7. I would say the same thing amd likes prolonging cards, eg the hd 7000 series still getting updates

    I would say let them refine vega first before diving in though

  8. Even with the latest Adrenalin drivers this card’s performance is inconcistent, where sometimes its even slower than the reference card. It seems to be the same kind of issues that plagued Powercolor Red Devil at the beginning, and they fixed it with the driver later on.

  9. ahahhahahahahahah, good one!
    Unless they review it before they came out!

  10. Sadly miners will pick all of them!

  11. Faster than a 1080 on every other site.

  12. I would stay away from powercolor. I kid you not comparing the powercolor to a sapphire is like comparing a kit car of a lambo to a real lambo.

  13. the weird thing is vega looks better than nvidia in gta5.(its like the amd driver has its own sort of msaa happening with out the game being told to do so.) also it is a smoother game to play on vega. nvidia cards have weird rubber banding that happens when driving fast in some area’s.

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