Radeon RX Vega 64

The Radeon RX Vega 64 is AMD's flagship Vega-architecture graphics card, released in 2017 to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080. It is the top SKU of the Vega lineup, built on the full Vega 10 GPU at 14nm, and marked AMD's most powerful consumer offering before the RDNA transition.

Like its sibling the RX Vega 56, the Vega 64 uses 8GB of HBM2 memory, delivering memory bandwidth in excess of 480 GB/s — a figure that rivals workstation-class hardware of the era. All 64 Compute Units of the Vega 10 GPU are enabled, providing substantial floating-point throughput. The card lacks hardware ray tracing and FSR, both of which arrived only with RDNA-generation products. Its TDP of approximately 295W and launch MSRP of $499 made it a competitive but power-hungry option at the high end.

The RX Vega 64 is suited for demanding 1440p gaming and can handle some 4K workloads at reduced settings. Its HBM2 memory and high compute throughput also made it attractive for GPU-accelerated tasks like video processing and machine learning at launch. Today it primarily interests buyers seeking older high-end hardware at low used prices, provided they have adequate power and cooling capacity.