Its drawing around 460w total system power(this is close to 100w higher than my RX 480), cards running at 75c GPU temps with VRMs and Memory being a few degrees hotter, pretty much inline with the reviews of this card. Its pinned at 100% GPU usage so thats good. So I install the Vega 56, leave it at stock settings to get a baseline(1500Mhz, 1.2V) and fire up the benchmarks and run unigine superposition benchmark for two hours to make sure its fully at temp and take a look at whats going on. Turns out i may have been wrong and just lost the silicon lottery with my 480. And since i got a launch 480, one of the first to get to canada, it undervolted very very poorly and overclocked very poorly(its a MSI OC card from factory, was pretty much maxed out in its stock form) so i thought all this under volting hype was just that, hype, and you needed a golden chip to get any real effect.
I have herd that you can undervolt these Vega and Polaris GPU's instead of over volting when you OC, Unlike everything ive ever known, seems so backwards to me. So i finally upgraded my old RX480 8GB, to give it to my Girlfriend for her new build and scored a Vega RX 56 Gigabyte OC 8GB card for $500CDN on black friday.
