AMD Vega 64 Video Cards Aren’t Beating NVIDIA in Benchmarks

If you have read our review of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 video card, you have noticed that the card didn’t perform as well as we might have hoped. While the AMD Ryzen CPUs have been able to compete very well against Intel parts and brought AMD some much needed love from computer gamers and enthusiasts; the new Vega video cards don’t appear to be able to generate the same sort of love.

In our review, we found that the RX Vega 64 never beat the competing GTX 1080i Ti Founders Edition and only managed to beat the GTX 1080 in a couple game benchmarks. We aren’t the only ones underwhelmed by the performance of Vega 64. ExtremeTech found several other reviews that had the same basic results that we found.

Perhaps things will be better against the NVIDIA competition with the Vega 64 liquid cooled card, but it doesn’t appear that AMD sent any of those parts out for review. I also don’t think the vast majority of games will want a card that requires liquid cooling.

The consensus is that the Vega 64 is on average about 6-10% behind in performance compared to the GTX 1080 parts that are its competition. The good news is that the Vega 56 does much better against the GTX 1070 than its bigger sibling does against its competition. Vega cards are also drawing more power than comparable NVIDIA parts according to reviews. This is not at all what gamers were hoping to see from AMD.