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Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. Outside of missions, players may freely roam the open world.
Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series. It may be fully explored after the game’s beginning without restriction, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content.
We use the Ultra quality settings (or the highest alternative – generally Very High or High – when Ultra is unavailable). MSAA is set to 2x for 1080p and 1440p and is disabled for 4K. The Advanced Graphics options are all set to their maximum levels.
At 1080p the game suggests 3469MB of VRAM usage. At 1440p that number increases to 3764MB. At 4K the video memory usage is quoted as 4171MB.
We must start the GTA V analysis by highlighting numerous issues experienced with the game throughout our testing. We suffered complete system lock-ups any time we tried to launch the game at 1080P, so much so that we had to launch into Safe Mode, switch the resolution to 1440P or 4K, and then re-launch the game. Bugs like this would also highlight the strong possibility of FPS performance issues in the game.
And perhaps that previous point is a valid explanation for the RX Vega64 results. Something looks to be holding back RX Vega64 performance at 1080P and 1440P as the card is outperformed even by the GTX 1070. That point is reiterated by the fact that AMD's offering loses significantly less performance as the resolution is increased to 4K.
While RX Vega64 Air is, currently (and that is important as this game looks to be suffering driver issues), a poor choice in GTA V compared to Nvidia offerings for 1440P and 1080P gamers, it does offer good performance at both resolutions. An average frame rate of 60 FPS at 1440P, with minimums kept above 30 FPS, is a solid result in isolation. However, the cheaper GTX 1070 FE offers higher average performance at the expense of sub-30 FPS minimums.
Looking at the 4K data, RX Vega64 starts to look like a competent offering for GTA V gamers. The AMD card hits an average close to 50 FPS and keeps minimums above 30 FPS. That's a good gaming range for GTA V when paired with a 4K FreeSync monitor. However, an overclocked GTX 1080 is still the better solution and justifies its higher price tag with close to 4K60 performance (at the expense of lower minimum FPS versus AMD).
Has anyone found a store actually selling these in the UK yet? Release date is today, but can’t find anything at overclockers.co.uk, amazon.co.uk, etc.
What a shocking bad cooler. Will wait on some partner cards before making a decision. Power consumption looks dire too. 🙁
Scan and overclockers got some stock
1900 MHz? How much power will then need to be delivered to it 😀
kinda disapointed because to me, this VEGA won’t make my fury X obsolete, delivery 95 FPS 1080p on Deus ex, the fury delivery 85 fps on 1080p, to me at least isn’t a great evolution :/
The prices on Overclockers for the Vega 64 is £548.99 for the cheapest and £599 for the special edition..though not in stock…The cheapest GTX 1080 reference on Overclockers is £449.99 and in stock.. a £100 price difference.. It’s got get to the price of the GTX…please!
A factory overclocked GTX 1080 G1 gaming by Gigabyte is only 519USD on Amazon.
I’m sure you could find cards costing 499 by other vendors
Vega 64 even in 499 isn’t worth it when you consider the price to performance to TDP.
GTX 1080 is a better buy if you care only for gaming performance and TDP….unless you want mining in which Vega 64 might be better.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s not meant to be a 1080p-optimised card
It’s hitting 1440p very well, but is still lagging in 4K. It’s an upgrade compared to Fury X, and probably noticeably in games, but it probably won’t blow you away like a 1080TI would. It’s cheaper than the TI, but still disappointing that AMD isn’t going after high end anymore.
I will wait till board partners and custom bioses so I can OC this beast. A Vega 64 LC board with a EK waterblock in my loop and 2 bioses would be just awesome. I just hope the drivers arrive and enable primitive shaders, Rapid packed math and fix the HBCC. I won’t treat these benchmarks as final and would take them with a grain of salt. Besides, you are NOT playing the games, you are using the in-game benchmarks which are INACCURATE, so ALL the KitGuru benchmarking are UNRELIABLE!!!!
No one in their right mind should buy a Vega 64 at 1080 prices when you consider its gaming performance and TDP.
Lol you are obsessed with TDP. No gamer should care. Can you give it enough power? Can you keep it cool?
Your arguing a point that means little since this cards power delivery was build almost perfectly.
You should not be as you don`t know what the card will do once its optimized for the game. Once more Dirt 4 changed 1 AA setting and it went from neck and neck with 1070 to smashing it by 24%. Also when I look at the games it struggles in they are mainly past there prime, like GTA 5 and if someone tweak cache settings this Vega will take off like a rocket.
The one thing HBM simply cannot be argued about is how insanely powerful it is calling massive textures as well as limiting the low frame dips.
I notice micro stutters and frame dips 100x more than a 10 FPS difference past 60 TBH.
And I am really going for that. Hopefully it blows the doors off the current lows.
Power doesnt matter as much on here because normally we equate tons of power with heat. But this VRM is at the realistic limit almost at 91.5%
Pls link it. I have been looking for a long time twice daily, and because Nvidia slacked when miners first appeared they have been wiped out.
Also why should gamers care about TDP at all? Its the miners who should. Gamers in general have much higher PSUs than normal as well as spend tons on parts they cant even use all the way “Hello 1080”.
If anyone is using the 1080 for 1080P at any level the 1080 is a massive waste. And this is where the 56 Vega is so great, it blurs the 1070/1080 line.
Hell the best bang for buck card that is worth it as much as a 1070 is the 1050TI for its price.
It has always been said the 970/1070 lines are the high sweet spot while 960/1060 was low sweet spot.
TDP only matters if the VRM is iffy. Vega has the best VRM made in a while and so even with huge power input it doesn’t get limited by thermals, its limited by power, which once more better for gamers.
I am going to either get a 1070 or Vega to replace my 970. Basically the reason im leaning hard Vega now is Free Sync. Running 100 FPS is a odd but very nice spot in games and Gsyncs are just insanely priced.
yeah, I only sad that’s VEGA isn’t make Fury X obsolet, worth it more get a second fury x than a new VEGA…