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Guru3D.com » News » Rumor: Radeon RX Vega cards Look to be Insanely good crypto-currency miners

Rumor: Radeon RX Vega cards Look to be Insanely good crypto-currency miners

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/04/2017 09:52 AM | source: | 76 comment(s)
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.

 



Rumor: Radeon RX Vega cards Look to be Insanely good crypto-currency miners




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robintson
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#5459179 Posted on: 08/04/2017 10:16 AM
Mining is most probably the only thing that they can be used for, but with so high TDP the cost of electricity will ruin all the value AMD cards have. Since they can't really compete with Nvidia, they chose to make the mining cards to make some profits :)

cryohellinc
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#5459181 Posted on: 08/04/2017 10:25 AM
Screw miners. Massive financial pyramid. Cant wait for it to crumble.

Cbotha15
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#5459184 Posted on: 08/04/2017 10:33 AM
Why don't the retailers just cap the amount of cards per buyer to like 5 units.

Neo Cyrus
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#5459185 Posted on: 08/04/2017 10:35 AM
Why don't the retailers just cap the amount of cards per buyer to like 5 units.

Because they like making money.

KissSh0t
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#5459191 Posted on: 08/04/2017 10:53 AM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand just like that there goes any gamers chance of buying one at launch xD

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