Review: Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 Nitro+

Conclusion

The AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU was a long time in coming, and it has taken another four months or so for a custom Sapphire card to show up. It's been much-needed, too, as the reference model has been plagued by high temperatures and a noisy fan.

The Nitro+ is that card. Massive in size and looking to tame RX Vega via the most heavy-duty air cooling we've seen from the company, it's a beautiful card with plenty of attention to detail, from the restrained RGB lighting and excellent construction, to relatively low noise at full pelt.

Sapphire really could not have done more to make RX Vega 64 better, and if this cooler was on an Nvidia card it would most likely be one of the better ones available. However, at £650 or so, verging on GeForce GTX 1080 Ti money, the hot and bothered RX Vega 64, no matter how well cooled, simply cannot cut it in such elevated company.

Bottom line: there are better performing GPUs at this price point, but if you insist on Vega, then Nitro+ is about as well as you can do.

Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 Nitro+

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