The reason for the low hashrate is because its the way Dagger algo was designed. Its the same reason why Fuji wasn't that much faster than most other cards.
They designed it this way most likely to prevent ASICs.
I am sure in other algos like ZEC or SHA256 it will murder most GPUs.
Yes, so true, I still cant understand why people fell for such a trick. I mean, there was nothing to show VEGA did 70 - 100, i mean nothing at all, no screenshots, nothing..period, and ebay scammers kept hyping so people with more money than sense would preorder cards from their already pre-orders hehe, I wonder how much money gibbo from overclocks uk made this time hehe, cause I'm sure he is part of a huge ebay mafia scam.
Lol... they sold out on the first day, and the same day people listed them on ebay for over $1000 thinking they were going to be great mining cards. Jokes on them. I doubt any gamer is going to pay more than double retail price for a card that doesn't get better framerates than a 1080 Ti.
I don't think Vega will be better at Equihash either, since it has a slower core clock, and Equihash is core intensive rather than memory intensive. Nvidia will still be faster than any Vega model as a result of their much faster core speed and wide ranging core overclock ability.
Of course there is the possibility that AMD intentionally nerfed mining capabilities on the card to let gamers have a chance to pick the cards up at a decent price, and later on they'll 'unleash the beast' so to speak opening up real mining performance in later bios/drivers.
