ASUS ROG Strix RX Vega 64 OC Edition 8GB Video Card Tests

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2018-04-17

RX Vega 64 is able to offer near GTX 1080 performance in most DirectX 11 titles, but performs exceptionally in newer, DirectX 12 games where it is able to exceed the performance levels of the Nvidia card. The Strix version coming from ASUS does feature a factory overclock, but the speed it will actually run at really depends on multiple factors such as power limits (for the GPU, HBM2 memory) but also temperature. When trying to overclock the card, we could not increase the clock much further, which is telling us that the Strix is pretty much running already at max capacity.

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ASUS ROG Applications

GPU Tweak II

 

ASUS is allowing tweakers to access the hardware parameters via the GPU Tweak II utility; the software presents itself with a skinned GUI and three preset profiles: OC Mode, Gaming Mode, Silent mode:

 

 

 

By pressing the Monitor button from the bottom left corner, we do have access to the live monitoring graphs:

 

 

My Profile is the place to go in order to fine-tune the RX Vega 64 Strix performance:

 

 

 

The software does also integrate a GPU-Z module, for taking a look at the current hardware information; here we will be also able to access Live Update, so the software will check for the latest versions of the utilities that we use:

 

 

 

Other software are available for download and access via the Tools tab:

 

-XSplit Gamecaster for streaming purposes

-ASUS Aura for customizing the LED lighting system on the board

-ROG Furmark for stability testing after overclocking

 

 

 

The Professional mode is the way to go for in-depth parameter modification:

 

-GPU Clock

-GPU Voltage

-Memory Clock

-Memory Voltage

-Fan Speed

-Power Target

-GPU Temp Target

 

 

 

 

ASUS Aura

 

With the help of Aura software, we can customize the LED lighting system from our RX Vega 64 Strix; we do have a variety of preset effects we can choose from:

 

-Static (we can choose the desired color)

-Breathing (was set by default, we can also choose the desired color)

-Strobing (we can choose the color of our choice)

-Color Cycle

 

 

 

Besides the mentioned standard effects, can also choose to enable the so-called “Special Effects”, one which enables the lighting depending on the rhythm of the music, but we can also set the lighting to adapt depending on the GPU temperature (the most useful, in our book):

 

 

 

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