It appears that ASUS is soon going to launch make their STRIX version Radeon RX Vega series graphics cards available world wide. For the beginning the company will launch a ROG-STRIX-RXVEGA64-O8G-GAMING model. The most important part in the model number is the acronym “O8G”, where the “O” stands for overclocked.



A early sample of this card has already been tested by our German friends over at Computerbase.de attesting the thing increased performance over the reference version. If you want to have a look at the performance figures we’ve included the link below, where we always point to the source.

Having a look around the cards reveals the typical STRIX design, including the usual triple fan cooler, which packs three 100mm fans and several heatpipes in running trough the base plate and being soldered to a dense fin stack. The fans don’t spen up when the card is in idle or below a certain temperature. Standard these days: RGB lighting, which, in the case of ASUS, can be controlled via their AURA software.

Apparently this STRIX card features a custom PCB. There are two 8-Pin power connector which deliver the required juice to a 13 phases VRM. As we already mentioned this is an O8G model and therefore it comes with a factory overclock on the GPU. ASUS advertises clock speeds of between 1495 and 1510 MHz. As shown by Computerbase over in their test lab this particular card is able to sustain the mentioned clock speeds better, which is why ASUS is capable of stepping the performance up a notch. Another feature you might like to see consists of two 4-pin PWM fan headers, which allow connecting case fans and control them through the ASUS software.

While launching the ROG STRIX Vega 64 ASUS has also prepared a Vega 56 variant, which offers the same features as its bigger brother but for the cut-down Vega derivate.

Checking prices on Geizhals we find the ASUS ROG STRIX Vega 64 O8G GAMING listed but without price tags, while so far there is no mention of the ASUS ROG STRIX Vega 56. We’ll certainly keep you posted on price updates.




Source: Techpowerup, Source: Computerbase