Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Sapphire Technology Technology Radeon 11276-02-40G Pulse RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2 HDMI/Triple DP (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card

Amazing performance, great deal! Couldn't resist!

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019

To summarize the pros and cons

Pros
+ Great gaming capabilities
+ easy to undervolt when following a guide
+ fairly quiet
+ Matches my build nicely
+ 2.5 slot card, fits even though I have a WiFi card and a sound card below it, no thermal issues either!
+ MASSIVE heatsink

Cons
- Wish the red Pulse logo would.... you know.... pulse red at least....
- PCB is for the Vega 56 nano, so some of the looks could be off-putting
- Because the PCB is short, the two VGA power ports are in the middle of the card, hard to cable manage that
- Heavy card, could cause sag in the future (planning on getting a GPU brace to hold up the right side of the card

I've been gaming on this card for a few days now. So far, I've been very impressed. I have yet to try this in video editing, but I have a feeling it will really cut down render times and improve preview quality. Undervolting the card to keep the frequency up was super simple. I looked up a guide and downloaded his profile for Wattman and it runs very well. The fans aren't loud at all, and shut off when under a certain temperature. $319 was a steal for a card like this, and I was able to space out the purchases through Amazon! Only $64 a month for 5 months and NO interest?! I just had to take it. It was such a good price and the payment plan was amazing that I chose it over the RTX 2060 and 2070.
For those wondering my part list....
Ryzen 5 2600 (overclocked to 3.75Ghz on Ryzen Master)
Cryorig H7
MSI B450 Tomahawk ATX motherboard
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM @ 2933 Mhz
ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD
Seagate Firecuda 2TB SSHD
Asus PCIe Wifi Card with Bluetooth
Creative Labs Sound BlasterX AE-5
Deepcool RF-140 Fans
Fractal Design Meshify C case
EVGA SuperNova G3 650W Gold PSU

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Willand Hua

This is a solid card at $300

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2019

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I upgraded from a Asus Strix Rx 580 which I had purchased for $290 ~1 year before purchasing the Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 for $300. I've had this card for about a month or so now and so far I'm very satisfied with it. It gave me a 30-40fps boost in pretty most of my games, and has allowed me to play more demanding games with the visual turned up without lagging. Undervolting/overclocking is easy to do and gets more performance from the card while keeping the power consumption down.

Physically speaking, the card itself is actually a Vega 56 nano (note the position of the power connection) with a full length gpu heatsink attatched to it. However, because it's a nano the positioning of the power connection can be slightly awkward. I'm really not sure why they wouldn't include a picture of the back of the card on this page. The portion of the heatsink that extends past the card is not blocked so it functions similarly to a tower heatsink for the cpu. With this, temps are not a problem even when overclocking. There is a back light for the PULSE logo that doesn't... pulse. I do wish that it did, as that would really help to complete the card. It is also the only light on the card. The fans are nice and quiet. However, it should be noted that they turn into a Boeing 737 in your bedroom when they start spinning up to higher rpm (in my experience, ~2100+rpm, +/-100rpm). It has 1 HDMI port with 3 DisplayPorts, as well as a 8+8 pin power connection. The card takes up the usual 2 slots and you can still easily use any pcie slots below it.

Recently I have had a couple of issues that did not occur to me when I had the Rx 580. Occasionally, I'll get screen flickering with slightly miscolored artifacting the shape of horizontal bars across the length of my monitors that is hard to notice. Once I had one monitor turn completely white, while the other turned black. I had to restart my pc to fix this. In general though, it doesn't happen enough to be of major annoyance and remains as a passing thought placed on the back burner.

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A. Wilmath

Perfect for hackintosh!

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019

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I bought this card for my hackintosh, and it works and looks great! It does kick out a lot of that so you would want an airflow case. I limit the card by running with vertical sync on to cap it to the 60fps which makes it run cooler and quiet, but it doesn't get very loud even running hard as long as I ate the case fans spinning around 900rpm. Those are 180x180x38mm fans so there is a lot of air at 900.

I picked it up when it was on sale for 300 it seemed fair, at 400 does seem overpriced. The card does feel of above average quality and is not just something thrown together. it also has some bling while keeping it classy. At 1440p it runs everything so far on max settings just fine. It was a significant upgrade over my RX580 and I think the price to performance was a little low but the build quality and design make it worth it. I think it ships with the dual bios in performance overclock mode, and I have not tried out the lower and quieter option.

btw, in a hackintosh it has required nothing to get to work, the GPU temp shows 127f at all times but works great otherwise. There was some noise about the macOS controlling the fan but I haven't had a problem, the fan spins up fine under load like it should. The only negative is in the picture you can see the lowest part of the heatsink hangs below the CPU cooler and that is the hottest part of the heatsink by a large margin and it is pushed out in front of the CPU cooler!! not ideal but in practice has caused no issues. Ultimately the current ATX standard is simply not appropriate for modern hardware cooling.

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Dieter

Great card for great performance

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2019

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I bought this card as an upgrade from a GTX 1050Ti and wow what an upgrade it was. It is a really big card compared to the 1050 so make sure your case can support it. I paid $330 for this card and I can say that I am happy with my purchase and the performance it is giving me.

PROS:
-great performance, average 175FPS in Overwatch on high setting. 80FPS in tomb raider on ultra, 88FPS in the Division 2 on high setting
-Adrenaline software is easy to navigate and create custom settings for each game

Cons:
-Noise level. The card can get fairly loud when the fans get above 60%
-OC the card via Adrenaline would cause the card to turn off so I can’t OC. Not an issue for me because I don’t OC but for someone who may want to and can’t, this could be an issue
-Adrenaline software does have issues with color management depending on the version you are on. On version 19.4 I had no issues. On 19.5 I had color issues where boot up would have the entire screen either magenta or yellow and I’d have to restart it to correct the issue.

Neutral pouts:
-price. For $330, I’m happy with my purchase but I have seen others think that this specific card is not worth the price to performance. So make sure you look up benchmarks for the games you play
-Heat: my cards fan curve is set pretty high because I don’t care about noise level and it sits at an average of 54* during gameplay. If you set it to fanless/low RPM then it’ll get pretty hot
-size: again, I upgraded from a 1050 ti so it’s much bigger than that. Just make sure your case can support the size which is 282mm

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Owen L.

Good Graphics Card for Years to Come

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2019

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Great card for the price. The Vega 56 wasn't a remarkable card upon release but since then the price has dropped and the drivers have been abundantly more supported, meaning the card has aged remarkably well.

Positives:
+ Card is blazing fast (Star Wars Battlefront 2, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Monster Hunter World with Ultra HD Textures, Grand Theft Auto V, Resident Evil 2, The Division 2 all tested above 60 fps at 1080p Ultra with 200% internal resolution where possible)
+ Overclocked out of the box
+ Can be flashed with Vega 64 bios and undervolted to push performance even further ( I don't think I'll need to do this for a few more years)
+ Runs exceptionally cool for an AMD card. As I type this I am getting 45c Idle and 65c-70c in game, though mileage may vary slightly per card.
+ The fans are quiet, with headphones on I cannot hear them.

Negatives:
- The coil whine is rather loud when the card is under load
- The PCI-e slots are right above the Pulse logo, making cable management annoying

To make a short review shorter, this card is great if you wish to do above 60 fps at 1080p/144 Hz, 1440p at 60 fps, or 4K at 30 fps.

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Mudda Goose

What a monster, and for this sale price of $300!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2019

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Ok, let me begin by saying holy crap: this thing is a BEAST. Not only did it appear larger than I had anticipated, but it performs OUTSTANDINGLY WELL for $300! Now, if it was back at its MSRP price of ~$550, I would say otherwise.

Folks, if you are reading this, and are considering getting any AMD GPU for a good value and price, THIS IS IT.

Came super quick in 3 days time, packaging was as simple as 2+2, and the installation was stress-free. I recommend you uninstall whatever version of Radeon Drivers and software you have on your PC before installing this of course.

Games are performing VERY well @ 1080p, max settings (tested Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Subnautica: Below Zero, Escape from Tarkov, Rust, Dark Souls III, Division 2, and Witcher 3 all running EXTREMELY WELL at 1080p on Max-Very High settings)

Highly recommended. Only Con I can name off is the fact the fan noise can be a BIT loud when you set it to Turbo, but not to the point of noticing it over my CPU fan. With enough tweaking though, and looming/researching enough guides, you can make it so the fan is only just audible and still getting the best (safe) performance available.

Awesome deal, GET IT NOW WHILE IT LASTS!

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Eric Broderick

Solid card, great value, quiet

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2019

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I got this as a replacement for a faulty Gigabye OC vega 56, and I must say, this cad is excellent, the card is very quiet, it overclocks great, my only beef is the power plugs in the middle of the card. there is a little bit of coil whine here and there but I game with headphones on so it isnt really noticeable, however make sure you have a big case with plenty of airflow and exhaust. This card dumps a lot of hot air into your case and itll become a sauna in there before long.

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Kyle S.

Lower stars isn't for the card, it's for Amazon.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019

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The card is good, only lasted like 4 months though. Great gaming card, upgraded from a RX 480. Did no modifications to it. It was stock and ran like a dream. The only sad part is just the other day, it started doing what is in the picture above. It does it on all the dp ports. Only the one HDMI port works and if I try to do dual monitor nothing works. Now I kinda figured "meh I got one of the bad ones, it happens." I have put this in the installment plan as I don't make that much, so I figured Amazon would be able to help me out... I was wrong. They said that there is no way for them to help me even though the card isn't even fully paid for. All they kept saying was get in contact with Sapphire and try to have them replace it, and they won't even answer my emails. So when I tried again with Amazon they pretty much gave me the middle finger again and said the same thing. So now I'm sitting here with a product that doesn't work and I'm still paying for it, and they don't really seem to care at all...

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Bert O Burch

Great when tuned

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019

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I upgraded from a RX 580 to this Sapphire Vega 56 on a 1920x1200 monitor. Once tuned, I was able to run ultra graphics on Division 2 and it looks beautiful. Was able to under-volt stage 7 to 1050 with a 1605 clock speed. wattage was reduced to max of 152w and in games is averaging 92w-120w.

Still, a lot of heat is put into your PC case so make sure you have good exhaust fans. The half length PC card with the cooler fins open at the end I think make a huge difference in efficiently cooling as the GPU stays around 58C during gaming. The Hot Spot has never exceeded 75C during stress testing. I went back to my old friend Crysis 3 and this was the first time I ever got to max out the graphics in it, was fun to replay the campaign knowing I finally had a card that answered the old question "Can it play Crysis".

This is a tuners card. If you like your car sitting only 3 inches off the payment, then this card is for you.

Update.. tuned stage 7 to 1070mv and clocking a steady 1640mhz. while driving dual 2180x1440 monitors. Both division 2 and tomb raider set on ultra. This card is fun to tune and the cooler is by far the best of any I've had. The pass through on the second fan allows unrestricted air passage. No PC board in the way either this nano design.

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Brittany Nielsen

Dead had to RMA

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2019

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My card arrived seemingly fine until I went to boot it up and it would hang at vga and not post my computer. I managed to work around that by clearing cmos and resetting a couple times. That has worked up until now, now it won’t work at all and I’ve been trying for hours. Figures when am just 2 days past the return date. Trying to contact sapphire is a hassle with no prompt response, we’ll see when they do and how long this process takes. I would recommend this card but only if it doesn't do what it did to me, if it does return immediately.

Update
It took about 2 weeks to get another card from sapphire. My first card from amazon had Hynix memory, the new one has Samsung, big plus.
The first card wasn’t booting my computer without me having to constantly restart it, sapphire said it may have been a hardware issue. I have no idea but am glad to have gotten a replacement outside of amazon’s return policy.
If your card does not boot up first try, send it back immediately, another thing I noticed with the “broken” one is when I would right click desktop and go to new, my computer would hang up and freeze.

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