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I am team red. Not a fanboy, mind you. I know that Nvidia still has the performance crown. I don't begrudge them that. I just don't care. I've liked and supported team red since back when they were separate entities (ATI, AMD).Anyway, I initially bought one of these in September, intending to get two as components in the new rig I'm building to replace my aging (2009 ... with upgrades along the way, c'mon I'm not that backward) do everything pc. However, while I paid for one through traditional means, I bought the other with proceeds from cryptocurrency mining that I started in July just because I had my pc running 24/7 and thought, why not have it working while I'm off working? Should have done that ages ago. So, yeah, I became one of those despicable cryptominers driving the price of gpus out of the hands of gamers. But, I was mining with my old 7970s that I've had for ages, and that I bought for gaming, and an RX 480 that I bought earlier this year (before prices went all wonky) for a mini-itx build for htpc/light gaming duties. So, don't hate. Also, I have not bought either of the V56's at higher that the MSRP. In September and November they were available at 399 for brief periods. That's the price I paid. And while I fully intend to get more gpus, I'm not going to want to pay more than 10% over msrp for them.I have since pressed the first one into mining and its doing well. The other will soon follow as soon as I reorder my space to better dissipate the heat that my machines are spitting out!. Gotta get the exhausts facing out the windows! I will get two more for the rig I'm building, but I'm going to see how much of it I can get from mining profit and how quickly. You can't fight the wave, so just ride it.As to gaming performance ... I do not know yet. While that was my original intent, it will wait. Hopefully I'll be able to chime in on that before Vega's replacement rolls in!

Die VEGA56 hat zuverlässig ihren Dienst in meiner Workstation verrichtet - bist gestern, da blieb der Bildschirm dunkel und der Rechner beim Neustart hängen (Q-Code d2). Aus- und Einbau halfen nichts, eine ältere Grafikkarte funktioniert jedoch einwandfrei. Ich habe die VEGA56 auch in einem anderen PC (ebenfalls mit einem Asus motherboard) getestet, dasselbe Ergebnis: Q-Code d2, der PC bootet nicht, Bildschirm bleibt schwarz. Schade - um diesen Preis kann man sich schon eine bessere Qualität erwarten!

First want to say if you've never owned an AMD reference gpu before, maybe you should learn a little more about it before you buy and ship it back. Yes it gets up to the low 80'c just like reference 1070's and 1080's. But many people are undervolting this gpu to keep the heat down and then in turn keep the fan noise down. The default fan profile, clock speeds and voltages can easily be adjusted.Currently with flashed vega 64 bios, here are my settings in wattmangpu frequency = -1.5% ~ 1607mhz maxvoltage = 1.115vmem frequency = 1025mhzfan profile low = 700rpmfan profile high = 3450rpmcard runs between 70c to 79c mostly staying around low 70's and mhz is usually 1530-1570 when being pushed. Yes the noise is a little loud but I wear headphones.With those settings, it will tie an aftermarket gtx 1080 in timespy gpu scores of around 7,200 points.Was lucky enough to snag this card for $399 previously, but see many cards are now dropping to $519 and $499, same with vega 64 dropping to $550ish. Please don't be stupid people and give 1 star for a product you don't own and are voting only based upon initial price and not upon actual market demands, we don't live in communism.Amd cards and Ryzen cpu give the users more opportunity to adjust settings and tune to get more performance. It has plenty of more headroom for user improvements but require you to do some work or provide it aftermarket cooling. I would buy this again but wish game dev's could optimize their games more for vega. Most big name games run great, I usually get 90-160fps at 1440p on medium/high settings. Doom vulkan is a steady 110 to 160fps on ultra/nightmare 1440p with no AA. Great engine, need more programmers to jump onboard vulkan!!!

Amazing product, great price. I'm just disappointed that such an expensive item came in packaging that was not Amazon.

The Radeon driver still has frequent hard crashes. It's not quite as bad as it used to be, but I would stay away from AMD GPUs still.