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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they should be. and as bitcoin has no value it makes a nice concept
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What did Gibbo end up saying about it actually being 30-35?
N/m, found it; HERE

that guy Is a as5hole
why did he say anything if he did not know
to sell this to amd fanboys ? or just try to sell it at all?
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that guy Is a as5hole
why did he say anything if he did not know
to sell this to amd fanboys ? or just try to sell it at all?
he might be the biggest douche in the universe, or not, but I have zero sympathy for anyone who preordered based on his overhyping.
1st of all how fvking stupid one has to be to buy into seller hype with zero evidence, no source, and which uses words like "seems" and "insanely good if true"
2nd miners are in it for the moneyz. they are betting, sometimes winning and sometimes losing.
And if they had won, they'd be bragging for months, look at me I so smart I made ****load $$$. Well tough luck hombre its CRYING TIME

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he might be the biggest douche in the universe, or not, but I have zero sympathy for anyone who preordered based on his overhyping.
1st of all how fvking stupid one has to be to buy into seller hype with zero evidence, no source, and which uses words like "seems" and "insanely good if true"
2nd miners are in it for the moneyz. they are betting, sometimes winning and sometimes losing.
And if they had won, they'd be bragging for months, look at me I so smart I made ****load $$$. Well tough luck hombre its CRYING TIME

LoL
Not only that but the Vega has ready a failed one may as well just get GTX 1080 being that that Vega board having a jackup price at reg store like newegg and so on for $100 more then MSRP here US.
When the walls come crash I going laugh my a$$ off and do

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Are those serial killers paid in bitcoin?