It looks like AMD’s recently announced Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics cards will be the ultimate cards for mining as reported by Videocardz. While this may sound great to miners, it doesn’t bode well for gamers.
AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64 Graphics Cards Will Be The Fastest Mining Products Ever Created – 70 – 100 MH/s in Ethereum
The report comes straight from Gibbo over at OCUK who was told the mining rate on the new RX Vega cards. It was stated that the Radeon RX Vega produces 70-100 MH/s rate which is superb as mentioned to him by an AIB partner. Following is the quote:
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Seems the hash rate on VEGA is 70-100 per card, which is insanely good. 🙁
Trying to devise some kind of plan so gamers can get them at MSRP without the miners wiping all the stock out within 5 minutes of product going live. via OCUK
Now starting off with the mining performance, it sounds really good. Right now, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers the fastest mining performance of over 31 MH/s but price and wattage figures are not that great when compared to cards such as RX 580 and GTX 1060. Now looking at the Radeon RX Vega 64 which would cost as low as $499 US and produce at least twice the mining rate, you can see that the performance to value figures are looking really great.
Aiding in computation with Vega NGCU is added support for over 40 new ISA instructions that take advantage also of the increased IPC over Polaris. Here’s the thing – some of these are very relevant to GPU mining. Need I say more on where this goes? AMD estimates a single NGCU to be able to handle as many as 512 simultaneous 8-bit operations. via Techpowerup
AMD’s Radeon Vega Frontier Edition also feature mining performance similar to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti so it can be seen that additional features were activated on the RX Vega ‘Gaming’ cards that allow for faster GPU mining performance.
