Vega Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3126-...ty-control

There’s not a huge difference, at the end of the day, but there is a quality control variation present. Patterns drawn from this initial sample size would indicate more potential for vapor chamber quality differences than anything else – but we have more coming soon, now that we just got more cards in. The contact issues seen above are resolved largely by thermal paste, and the vapor chamber’s benefits more than make-up for its contact pressure variations, which are normal for a vapor chamber (those cylindrical shapes would happen with every vapor chamber, as the cylinders are used internally to prevent the chamber from being crushed). Just make sure there’s thermal paste in there -- nothing different from any other GPU, really. Thermally, we have not yet seen a major difference in packaging performance, but we also haven’t yet shown any packages with the earlier reported 40um lower HBM2. Again, more on that very soon, but it’ll take time to process the next round.

So far, from these cards tested, there’s not a lot to be worried about. The initial reports from Tom's and Videocardz got a lot of interest, but were never looked into beyond that. Thus far, from a small sample size, there is variation. Sure, there are some seeming quality control concerns (that also correlate with our earlier samples, so it may be resolved on later runs), but nothing that’ll break the cards or even perform appreciably worse.