Vega 56 with Vega 64 BIOS

[whoololon]

Well, just as it sounds.
According to this article from WCCFTech, you get a performance boost for the Vega 56 by installing the Vega 64 BIOS, approximately 10%.
If you also manage to overclock them, they say, you could add another 10%, which leaves the overall improvement at an optimistic 20%.

What scares me the most about this new batch of graphics cards is the feeling of having rushed them to market, not just because of the manufacturing process itself, which also has its own issues (to end up falling short in production), but because everything surrounding this product still smells like a testing phase.

The user should not be reassured by the fact that Mr. Koduri is preaching the virtues and advantages of the Vega on social networks, when he lets slip that the (high) consumption is due to the fact that the reviews have not exposed it correctly.

I was just asking for real competition.

[Yorus]

AMD and its dark age. Look at how it was even above Intel when it released the Athlon 64 and with graphics there have been periods of alternation with Nvidia, but they have been asleep for years and now it's time to recover what was lost. They have already done it more or less with Ryzen, but now they have neglected graphics.

[kynes]

I don't think they've neglected the graphics, but nVidia is very very powerful and has many sources of income, which makes them allocate a lot to R&D, and that's why they have great products. AMD has had the short quilt problem, that either you cover your face, or you cover your feet, you leave something uncovered, they are short of cash and do what they can.

What is miraculous is that they are still alive after so many years of losses, at least it seems that with ZEN they are starting to make money.

[cobito]

Now it is rumored that AMD is losing $100 for every Vega 64 sold with a wholesale price of $500. The reasons would be the encapsulation costs and the HBM2 memory. The extra costs of the latter could be solved when Hynix starts up its plant in October.