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[kingcolex]

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[Eyedol-X]

So if you have been following Vega at all and hoping it will be great for mining then you probably saw the leaks in the last 24hr. The leaks suggest that Vega is currently edging out the 1070, now you may think why is this good? Well this leads us to thinking there will be multiple varients of the Vega cards, this could be the low end Vega and we could get a starting price of $250-$300, since the 1070 is $340 and AMD has to be ready to combat a price drop anytime. A low end Vega card may also just be binned higher ups (this is was and has done historically with their CPUs and it could go with their GPUs as well) allowing for great hashrate with lower wattage.

yeah I suspect a Vega clocked higher will edge out a 1080 (not the 1080 with the GDDR5X)

I see Nvidia refreshing the 1070 with the faster memory in response and cutting production on any 1070/1080 that does not have GDDR5X which should already be happening for the 1080.

If that occurs, I suspect there will be price drops or a little price war between the two for non-GDDR5X models

[nu1mlock]

yeah I suspect a Vega clocked higher will edge out a 1080 (not the 1080 with the GDDR5X)

I see Nvidia refreshing the 1070 with the faster memory in response and cutting production on any 1070/1080 that does not have GDDR5X which should already be happening for the 1080.

All GTX 1080's has GDDR5X memory.

[Amph]

yeah I suspect a Vega clocked higher will edge out a 1080 (not the 1080 with the GDDR5X)

I see Nvidia refreshing the 1070 with the faster memory in response and cutting production on any 1070/1080 that does not have GDDR5X which should already be happening for the 1080.

All GTX 1080's has GDDR5X memory.

he talk about the one with 11gpbs, still i don't like amd cuz can't mine some low hash profitable coin like nexus spreadcoin veltor etc, their miner is not on par with nvidia for these coins, probably because private miners are a plague there more than nvidia

[Eyedol-X]

yeah I suspect a Vega clocked higher will edge out a 1080 (not the 1080 with the GDDR5X)

I see Nvidia refreshing the 1070 with the faster memory in response and cutting production on any 1070/1080 that does not have GDDR5X which should already be happening for the 1080.

All GTX 1080's has GDDR5X memory.

he talk about the one with 11gpbs, still i don't like amd cuz can't mine some low hash profitable coin like nexus spreadcoin veltor etc, their miner is not on par with nvidia for these coins, probably because private miners are a plague there more than nvidia

What Amph said, I meant the refresh 1080s with the faster memory.

[jMEGA]

So if you have been following Vega at all and hoping it will be great for mining then you probably saw the leaks in the last 24hr. The leaks suggest that Vega is currently edging out the 1070, now you may think why is this good? Well this leads us to thinking there will be multiple varients of the Vega cards, this could be the low end Vega and we could get a starting price of $250-$300, since the 1070 is $340 and AMD has to be ready to combat a price drop anytime. A low end Vega card may also just be binned higher ups (this is was and has done historically with their CPUs and it could go with their GPUs as well) allowing for great hashrate with lower wattage.

Can you kindly share the links to the benchmarks?

[jstefanop]

I don't see any scenario where a vega card can beat out a 570.

2x570 = ~60 MH / 280 watts / $340

High end Vega w/ HBM 2 = ~40-50 MH / ~250 watts / ~$500-600

Low end Vega w/ GDDR5/x = ~30-40 MH / ~200 watts / ~400-500

The only way I see the low end vega outdoing the 570 is if it under-clocks/volts really well, and you can fit two of these cards in the same power envelope as 2x570, and be able to kick out about 80 MH using < 300 watts. If they go aggressive on pricing and its under $400 per card then that would make sense.

[VoskCoin]

Then what is the best bang for buck card for a rig? / Do you guys feel the 570 is worth it over the 470?

[Truthchanter]

Then what is the best bang for buck card for a rig? / Do you guys feel the 570 is worth it over the 470?

I'd go with whatever is cheapest since the hashrate is basically identical when tweaked to optimum and so is the power consumption (although i have heard some people getting the power consumption a few % lower on the 500 series)

[zer0k]

Then what is the best bang for buck card for a rig? / Do you guys feel the 570 is worth it over the 470?

Your question is way too broad...

How many rigs are you building?
How important is ROI to you?
How many cards per rig?
How much do you pay for power?
Are you buying all the cards right away?
Is there a limit on how many rigs/cards you can run?

For instance...someone might only be able to run 2 systems and will be limited to 6-8 GPU's per rig.
That means they are limited to the maximum hash rate they can get from 12-16 GPU's

Should they get the cheapest RX470's possible and go for quick ROI and upgrade later?
Or go all out with 1080 ti's and have a longer ROI, but then higher per day profits and better resale?

[VoskCoin]

Then what is the best bang for buck card for a rig? / Do you guys feel the 570 is worth it over the 470?

Your question is way too broad...

How many rigs are you building?
How important is ROI to you?
How many cards per rig?
How much do you pay for power?
Are you buying all the cards right away?
Is there a limit on how many rigs/cards you can run?

For instance...someone might only be able to run 2 systems and will be limited to 6-8 GPU's per rig.
That means they are limited to the maximum hash rate they can get from 12-16 GPU's

Should they get the cheapest RX470's possible and go for quick ROI and upgrade later?
Or go all out with 1080 ti's and have a longer ROI, but then higher per day profits and better resale?

Sorry, I am building a small mining operation.

No limit on rigs, essentially
ROI is the most important factor
Assuming 6 card standard but willing to do more or less
.15 kwh
I have enough funds to build one rig at the moment, and will build more in the near future