AMD RX VEGAs are now out of stock

[fanatic26]

Mining beasts? Are you confused? These cards are crap for mining. Just buy some RX series cards and stop wasting money.

[Morgon]

Mining beasts? Are you confused? These cards are crap for mining. Just buy some RX series cards and stop wasting money.

Uh, Vegas are RX series. They're just not Polaris.

[Maren]

I still like the 1080ti's over these though...not sure why people are buying these up.  Do they just do really well on ETH?

They don't do well on ETH, but they own on Cryptonight.

[BitJunkie556]

I can't check your calculations but if you use the calculator power on nicehash website it turns out that Vega has a capacity 2 times more than RX 580. In this case, it turns out that $ 500 plus tax will have equivalent performance with 2 RX 580 in price and performance. I don't know what VEGA power consumption.

Yeah, but keep in mind that it's just one algo — Cryptonight. For everything else the ratio is nowhere close. In ETH two Polaris cards are 30*2=60 MH/s while Vega 64 is ~ 45 MH/s. Same with Equihash etc.

I don't have modded BIOS's or anything like that, but with a bit of an overclock, I've seen more like 22 MH/s. I guess if Vega 56 could do 45 MH/s for $400, that would be great, but...

But hey, if there's a way to get 30 MH/s right now today, damn, let me know. o_o

[sundownz]

And best thing of the Cryptonight algorithm is it will save you energy money in the long run. I don't know how it behave in RX Vegas cards but in RX 4xx/5xx series the consumption is 30-35 watt less than mining Ethereum and about 55 watt less than mining Zcash. With 1850 h/s is as having 3x RX 480 cards. Fantastic performance.

Decent rx 480/580 cards usually hash @ 770-820 H/s, so Vegas are more like 2.3x times faster. Only 1.5x times faster in Dagger. And Vegas are also very noisy (except the water cooled ones), gotta keep the fan spinning really fast to cool that hbm module. It's a one trick pony at this point, but it does that one trick (cryptonight) well.

I ordered 3x VEGA 64 just to add to my mining capacity on Intense Coin (Cryptonight) and also for fun since I don't own any VEGAs yet & I landed them for $549 each (I'd rather pay under 500... but it was acceptable).

[wacko]

I don't have modded BIOS's or anything like that, but with a bit of an overclock, I've seen more like 22 MH/s. I guess if Vega 56 could do 45 MH/s for $400, that would be great, but...

But hey, if there's a way to get 30 MH/s right now today, damn, let me know. o_o

Why would you mine at 22 MH/s on Polaris cards, pretty much everyone mods their cards to run 27-28+, even most calculators like whattomine have been showing ~ 30 MH/s for 480/580 cards for months. That's just the standard thing to do, if you don't mod the card then it's wasted, you might as well just go with nvidia then since they offer similar ~ 22 MH/s at lower price and lower power consumption. A gazillion guides on how to tune your Polaris card out there, like this one, for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1954245.0

I ordered 3x VEGA 64 just to add to my mining capacity on Intense Coin (Cryptonight) and also for fun since I don't own any VEGAs yet & I landed them for $549 each (I'd rather pay under 500... but it was acceptable).

I was considering buying a couple of Vega's as well, but I made myself a promise to not buy reference one-fan cards years ago. Had ati radeon 5870s mining bitcoins that were super loud and said to myself "no way I'm buying anything like this again!". But then amd released 6950 cards, and many reference ones could be unlocked to 6970s (while most non-reference ones couldn't), so I broke the promise and bought some reference 6950s.. which sounded like vacuum cleaners, of course. After that I figured enough is enough and I'm done with this crap, but couldn't resist to play the lottery with 290 unlocking to 290x. Except none of my reference 290s unlocked, so I just ended up with a few super loud and hot refs that I hated. And that was the last draw, since then there's absolutely no freaking way I'm buying a reference AMD card again.

[R0mi]

And best thing of the Cryptonight algorithm is it will save you energy money in the long run. I don't know how it behave in RX Vegas cards but in RX 4xx/5xx series the consumption is 30-35 watt less than mining Ethereum and about 55 watt less than mining Zcash. With 1850 h/s is as having 3x RX 480 cards. Fantastic performance.

Decent rx 480/580 cards usually hash @ 770-820 H/s, so Vegas are more like 2.3x times faster. Only 1.5x times faster in Dagger. And Vegas are also very noisy (except the water cooled ones), gotta keep the fan spinning really fast to cool that hbm module. It's a one trick pony at this point, but it does that one trick (cryptonight) well.

Wacko, I agree with you about this:  RX 480 would do 850 H/s Cryptonight.  So Vegas are not 3x faster.  Also, very loud as you say.  I took mine apart and put on the Raijentech Morpheus II coolers.  Now almost silent.