Everyone, please do your research before spreading misinformation.
The Vega FE (Frontier Edition) can be used for both workstation and gaming purposes. Unlike Nvidia who released their top-tier Pascal chip (Titan Xp with all compute units enabled) towards the end of 10xx series, AMD released their top-tier card right off the bat. The Vega FE we see today, is the best we can currently expect from the RX Vega that is to be released later on. It's essentially downhill from here on out since we have cream of the crop with Vega FE. Like the Titan Xp, these cards are more meant for the enthusiast market which is why prices start at $1000.
Wait for the drivers to solidify these coming weeks, then form your opinions. AMD already offers different drivers depending your daily use (compute, gaming, professional, etc) for Vega.
The real workstation cards are the FirePro/Quadro series that use actual certified drivers and DP
Topic: Excpected Vega hashrate (Read 1592 times)
It's gonna be a ZEC beast, Fury X already does 500H/s on ZEC, I expect atleast 700H/s, could be 800+.
You heard here first, Vega + gddr5 will fare you around 32 mh/s eth, vega will replace polaris for miners.
Vega has HBM2 memory not gddr5
You heard here first, Vega + gddr5 will fare you around 32 mh/s eth, vega will replace polaris for miners.
look this comparison https://videocardz.com/70299/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-graphics-card-available-for-preorder, it's not much faster than a titan xp, which is not much faster than a 1080ti, so that value isn't justified, i think it's too expensive
It's NOT reasonable to compare pricing on the Frontier edition WORKSTATION card to a GTX 1080ti CONSUMER card.
Comparing pricing vs the Titan X Pascal and Titan Xp on the other hand IS fair.
look this comparison https://videocardz.com/70299/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-graphics-card-available-for-preorder, it's not much faster than a titan xp, which is not much faster than a 1080ti, so that value isn't justified, i think it's too expensive
Never wait for anything. If you can get cards now, then do that. By the time Vega comes out you will be over half way on paying off your rig and who knows if the Vega's will be good or have any drivers compatible with mining. Also the first Vega cards to come out will be the professional cards, which are never good for mining. The enthusiast cards won't come out at least a month later.
All I can say for sure is this, just wait and see, don't jump head first into buying something that you don't know or understand anything about.
If I knew about the hashrate of these cards and if it was really good(When I say that, I'm talking 4x the performance of the 500Series, and getting nearly 2-4times Per/watt than 500 series) then I know the difficulty of mining for AMD cards is going to skyrocket and we'll have the good ol days of Trying to mine bitcoin again with GPU's ahh good times...(Not really)
But seriously just keep an eye out, I hear its supposed to be great, just not so much when the demand pics up, and it will... if its as great as rumors hint it'll be... the 500 series won't be as efficient to mine with anymore.(Don't take my word for it as it's just rumors)
If I knew about the hashrate of these cards and if it was really good(When I say that, I'm talking 4x the performance of the 500Series, and getting nearly 2-4times Per/watt than 500 series) then I know the difficulty of mining for AMD cards is going to skyrocket and we'll have the good ol days of Trying to mine bitcoin again with GPU's ahh good times...(Not really)
But seriously just keep an eye out, I hear its supposed to be great, just not so much when the demand pics up, and it will... if its as great as rumors hint it'll be... the 500 series won't be as efficient to mine with anymore.(Don't take my word for it as it's just rumors)
With the abnormally high price of the Vega, will it even compete with other cards in terms of mining. It costs like 6 times as much as the RX4xx-5XX and I doubt it will even have twice as much megahashes on Ethereum. And what about on zchash and other coins since eth is going pos soon. Is it even still worth waiting for?
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