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Rumor: Radeon RX Vega cards Look to be Insanely good crypto-currency miners
Gamers beware, rumors now indicate that the Radeon RX Vega cards might be insanely good crypto-currency miners. And that will be a problem as miners would purchase them for above average prices, which thus will drive volume availability down, and prices up.
With the price segment being higher and based on a new and different architecture we'd all have hoped the card would not be great miners, but as it is rumored right now (and it is just that, a loose rumot), the cards can achieve insane hashrates nearing 70-100 per card. That statement was made by OC UK's staff, Gibbo who retrieved that bit of information from an AMD AIB partner.
While the hash-rate was in the 30 for the Vega Frontier edition, apparently a recent driver update to improve features and gaming performance also doubled mining capabilities. Even a hashrate of 60 would be excellent.
If this is true, it's going to be a bad deal for gamers. Miners would buy all available stock, driving prices up. Then again, perhaps the AIB partner who warped this rumor into the web is having a hard laugh for the kicks of releasing a rumor/viral. It could even be a bit of a viral from OcUk to drive pre-order prices up a bit (though we doubt that, but who knows right?). Regardless, let's hope AMD has heaps of cards available at launch.
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#5460264 Posted on: 08/07/2017 07:38 PM
ditto.
You must live a very sad life.
ditto.
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#5460454 Posted on: 08/08/2017 07:19 AM
Ether mining performance is directly related to memory bandwidth of the card so it's just impossible a card with less bandwidth of fury x, magically give three times more hashrate.
Ether mining performance is directly related to memory bandwidth of the card so it's just impossible a card with less bandwidth of fury x, magically give three times more hashrate.
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#5460495 Posted on: 08/08/2017 10:47 AM
One or more New Instructions have been added, specifically for CryptoCoin Mining.
Until we get reviews from everywhere, its just speculation, but very possible.
Ether mining performance is directly related to memory bandwidth of the card so it's just impossible a card with less bandwidth of fury x, magically give three times more hashrate.
One or more New Instructions have been added, specifically for CryptoCoin Mining.
Until we get reviews from everywhere, its just speculation, but very possible.
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#5463104 Posted on: 08/15/2017 07:10 AM
I find it funny that it went up from 30-35 over Vega FE, using special "drivers".
And now how fast is it? 70 - 100 MH/S.
Quite the range, quite the hype, quite the bull****.
QFT
What did Gibbo end up saying about it actually being 30-35?
N/m, found it; HERE
Ah gotta love review sites that quote one of my post out of context with later replies from me. More fool the idiots who read press sites and believe what they say, when they select just the snippets they want to select. I said an AIB has rumoured 70-100 hash rate, not confirmed. Funny how the press made it look like 70-100 was dead cert. People who read all my replies here would no that to be rumour but as always certain sites post up just parts of my replies here and take as gospel.
I find it funny that it went up from 30-35 over Vega FE, using special "drivers".
And now how fast is it? 70 - 100 MH/S.
Quite the range, quite the hype, quite the bull****.
QFT
What did Gibbo end up saying about it actually being 30-35?
N/m, found it; HERE
Ah gotta love review sites that quote one of my post out of context with later replies from me. More fool the idiots who read press sites and believe what they say, when they select just the snippets they want to select. I said an AIB has rumoured 70-100 hash rate, not confirmed. Funny how the press made it look like 70-100 was dead cert. People who read all my replies here would no that to be rumour but as always certain sites post up just parts of my replies here and take as gospel.
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What with Ryzen being a huge success and TR looking set to curbstomp Intel on the HEDT front, perhaps AMD designed these cards for mining to simply sell them, and sell they will, very very well. Good money for AMD, but as a gamer, a shame Nvidia still has no equal in the top tier...though at least Nvidia haven't pulled an Intel and stagnated the GPU market with overpriced feeble quad cores for a decade.