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Radeon RX Vega 64 bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 74 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (41th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8100F it lands near 46 fps at 1080p and 5 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsGCN 5 · 2017
ArchitectureGCN 5
Shading units4,096
Boost clock1,546 MHz
Memory8 GB
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s
Board power295 W
Released2017
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8100F, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 46 99% Graphics card
2560 x 1440 27 99% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 16 99% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 5 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8100F 46 12.9%
Core i3-8100 46 12.9%
Core i3-8300 46 15.2%
Core i3-8350K 46 21.6%
Core i3-9100 46 25.3%
Core i3-9100F 46 25.3%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8100F
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 11 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 38 OK
Counter-Strike 2 85 OK
Baldur's Gate 3 27 8.1 GB needed
Red Dead Redemption 2 17 9.4 GB needed
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 15 10.8 GB needed

Who a Radeon RX Vega 64 is actually for

This is mainstream 1080p hardware. At that resolution it is usually the component doing the limiting, which is good news for pairing — it will not be held back by a modest processor, so there is no need to spend heavily on the chip beside it.

Pushing it to 1440p is possible in lighter titles, but expect to drop settings in demanding ones.

8 GB is this card's real limit

8 of the 16 titles we model exceed 8 GB at 1440p and high settings. On this card memory, not shader throughput, is the thing that will make modern games stutter. Texture quality is the setting to lower first, and it usually costs less visual fidelity than the alternatives.

A note on age

Released in 2017, this card is 9 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 74 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER. Just below: Arc 7 A750, Radeon RX 5600 XT. Full method on the methodology page.