The initial performance of AMD's new Radeon RX Vega 56 may accept looked a footling lackluster at launch if you were expecting it to exceed the strides made by Nvidia'due south year-old GTX 10 series. At all-time, Vega 56 was a smidgen faster than the GTX 1070 for almost the same corporeality of money, while consuming more power, so despite looking impressive in absolute terms, we felt it was going to exist a tough sell.

Nosotros had the opportunity to give Vega 56 a good workout at launch, but nosotros didn't receive a Vega 64 carte on time for a review. In fact, our sample just arrived Monday, at which point we dropped everything and have been testing since.

With that said, this might be the biggest GPU benchmarking session in TechSpot's history, it'due south then large that we almost gave up after accepting the challenge. After almost a week's worth of testing, we have an incredible amount of data to pour over. Our original plan was to add five games to the 25 titles nosotros originally tested. In the end, later on so many requests nosotros felt compelled to add 7 more games for a full of 32 titles benchmarked in this commodity.

Additionally, we've added results from the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics cards, which were compared alongside the custom board partner cards at resolutions of 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

We'll be using our Cadre i7-7700K test rig clocked at 4.9GHz but still program to do extensive testing with Vega and the GeForce 10 serial on Ryzen every bit well. Enough messing about, nosotros take work to do...

Benchmarks

Getting things going, nosotros take Ashes of the Singularity aka 'Ashes of the Benchmark' and this is a championship I expected AMD's new Vega serial to perform quite well in. Nvidia has put a heap of time into developing their drivers to make up for the GeForce 10 series' weak DX12 performance and we run into it paying off here. The GTX 1070 roughly matches Vega 56 while the GTX 1080 matched all-time version of Vega 64 -- a balmy result overall for AMD.

Assassinator's Creed Syndicate has been brought back for this article after receiving quite a few requests for it, including from Tim -- non sure if he's a fan of the game or what. Unfortunately, this is a poor title for AMD and fifty-fifty the air-cooled Vega 64 menu falls behind the GTX 1070. Not a great effort in our second championship tested but AMD has another 30 to titles to recover.

Well that didn't accept long, correct into Battleground 1 and already we're seeing much more competitive performance from Vega. Something worth noting though is how poorly the air-cooled Vega 64 card does in this title, merely just managing to edge out Vega 56. The liquid cooled version is much more impressive with an boilerplate of 122fps, which is a good bit faster than even a custom GTX 1080.