Synthetic Benchmarks

For testing, I set the Vega 64 LC up in our testbench and ran it through all of our video card test suite. The first batch were all synthetic benchmarks. These don’t always show exactly what you can expect in game, but they are great for consistent testing between cards. 3DMark is especially good with this and both AMD and Nvidia are well optimized for it. I tested in Fire Strike using all three settings and also with Time Spy, the D12 benchmark. In Fire Strike, the Vega 64 LC came in up above the 1080 Ti FE at the performance setting with just RX580 Crossfire results being faster. In the Extreme and Ultra settings where the resolution goes up to 1440p and 4k the 1080 Ti pulled back ahead with a good gap. In Time Spy the Vega 64 LC was in line with the somewhat recent refresh of the GTX 1080 with 11 Gbps memory and was well below the 1080 Ti and all of the SLI and Crossfire results.

For Unigine based tests I included the now very old Valley benchmark as well as the new Superposition results. In Valley, the Vega 64 LC came in at 84 FPS, not all that impressive with some GTX 1070’s even being faster. The Superposition benchmark I tested at 4k and 8k as well as in two different 1080p configurations to get a look at future performance as well as today's performance. At 1080p with medium settings, the Vega 64 LC was well above the GTX 1070 and about in line with the GTX 1080 FE. Turning the 1080p settings up pulled it ahead of the 1080 FE, up with the 11 Gbps 1080’s but the 1080’s did much better at 4k and 8k.

Catzilla didn’t go as well. In all three tests, the Vega 64 LC comes in closer to the overclocked GTX 1070’s with the GTX 1080 and above being well ahead.