Is RX VEGA Frontier edition worth mining with?

[michstuff72]

Hi guys,

does anyone have any experiance with mining cryptonight with an frontier edition vega? is it worth to pay 80 euro more for a frontier edition vs an vega 64?

thank u in advance guys.

[0xcosmos]

if wouldn't perform double or triple in terms of hashrate
only a few hundred more in the expense of more energy consumption
i will still suggest to go with vega 54 if you can get it in economical price

[KaydenC]

It does 2050-2100h/s using 2016/2016 settings. There's some sales for them at $699 which I think is worth the money if you can't get V56/64s at close to msrp.

[jelin1984]

v56/v64. how many sol?

2000??

[michstuff72]

and any diference between the air and liquid version or could i just go for the air one? do not care about noise. i can get air cooled cards fe at same price of vega 64 at this moment due to the shortages in belgium

[Michael20]

When cooling and loudness is no problem go air cooled, if you would would fit them tight, better air cooling. If Mem goes to high it throttle!
If Vega 64 price is better, than buy this. Resale would be better. hashpower is near identical actual.

[KaydenC]

and any diference between the air and liquid version or could i just go for the air one? do not care about noise. i can get air cooled cards fe at same price of vega 64 at this moment due to the shortages in belgium

For monero mining it does not matter. But if you ever want to do dual mining, liquid edition is a must. In my tests, dual mining throttles the card even at 4000rpm fans.

[Marvell2]

and any diference between the air and liquid version or could i just go for the air one? do not care about noise. i can get air cooled cards fe at same price of vega 64 at this moment due to the shortages in belgium

For monero mining it does not matter. But if you ever want to do dual mining, liquid edition is a must. In my tests, dual mining throttles the card even at 4000rpm fans.

vega uses too much power mining eth though ? I've tested it and in a 54 seems to use like 350 watt for 43 mhs and 150 lbr

[Cup0Noodles]

It does 2050-2100h/s using 2016/2016 settings. There's some sales for them at $699 which I think is worth the money if you can't get V56/64s at close to msrp.

Hi - Can you please share how you got yours up & running? I just spent 3 hours trying to get my FEs mining. Whatever I tried, I could not get the FEs to "reset" (disable/enable) whether via device manager or via Wattman (tried on multiple separate clean DDU attempts).

The cards would disable OK, but upon re-enabling them, I got a "Graphics device driver error code 43". I could only get the FEs to reenable once if they were already disabled when I started my PC. They didn’t enable with the full memory available and only hashed at ~1400 h/s. I tired with my 64s and without. I tried with both FEs and a single FE. I have a Biostar BTC-250 mobo and all cards running off of riser cards.

I tried resetting cards (device manager & wattman approaches) at stock AND w/ a variety of custom reg files. No matter what, even stock, it crashed. The only thing I haven't tried is using non-blockchain drivers. My understanding is that the most current non-blockchain drivers are still not optimized for mining. Perhaps, I'm wrong and now the official, non-blockchain drivers, will get you to 2K+ h/s?
I also didn't try using any Vega 56 reg files but figured they wouldn't be mapped to the FE.

[KaydenC]

It does 2050-2100h/s using 2016/2016 settings. There's some sales for them at $699 which I think is worth the money if you can't get V56/64s at close to msrp.

Hi - Can you please share how you got yours up & running? I just spent 3 hours trying to get my FEs mining. Whatever I tried, I could not get the FEs to "reset" (disable/enable) whether via device manager or via Wattman (tried on multiple separate clean DDU attempts).

The cards would disable OK, but upon re-enabling them, I got a "Graphics device driver error code 43". I could only get the FEs to reenable once if they were already disabled when I started my PC. They didn’t enable with the full memory available and only hashed at ~1400 h/s. I tired with my 64s and without. I tried with both FEs and a single FE. I have a Biostar BTC-250 mobo and all cards running off of riser cards.

I tried resetting cards (device manager & wattman approaches) at stock AND w/ a variety of custom reg files. No matter what, even stock, it crashed. The only thing I haven't tried is using non-blockchain drivers. My understanding is that the most current non-blockchain drivers are still not optimized for mining. Perhaps, I'm wrong and now the official, non-blockchain drivers, will get you to 2K+ h/s?
I also didn't try using any Vega 56 reg files but figured they wouldn't be mapped to the FE.

I'm using the same mobo and it works out of the box. I used the same steps as building any other vega rig and it works. Using Aug 23 blockchain drivers, overdrive tool to undervolt (min voltage is 950mv or so no matter what i set) and MSI AB to further undervolt (to 850mv).

My settings of 1400core/1100 mem/850mv gives 2100h/s. Lowering core to 1330 still give 2050h/s.

Did not use any registry mods at all.

[KaydenC]

and any diference between the air and liquid version or could i just go for the air one? do not care about noise. i can get air cooled cards fe at same price of vega 64 at this moment due to the shortages in belgium

For monero mining it does not matter. But if you ever want to do dual mining, liquid edition is a must. In my tests, dual mining throttles the card even at 4000rpm fans.

vega uses too much power mining eth though ? I've tested it and in a 54 seems to use like 350 watt for 43 mhs and 150 lbr

When I undervolt to 850mv/1400 core, it did like 44mh/s eth and 2200 dcr for a few mins till it gets too hot. I'd assume with the undervolt it draws way less than TDP but I had no wallmeter.

Even at 250W it's competitive imo because we are doubling the hash rate of dual mined coin. If there's a surprise high profit dual mine coin then it'll be great.

[Cup0Noodles]

It does 2050-2100h/s using 2016/2016 settings. There's some sales for them at $699 which I think is worth the money if you can't get V56/64s at close to msrp.

Hi - Can you please share how you got yours up & running? I just spent 3 hours trying to get my FEs mining. Whatever I tried, I could not get the FEs to "reset" (disable/enable) whether via device manager or via Wattman (tried on multiple separate clean DDU attempts).

The cards would disable OK, but upon re-enabling them, I got a "Graphics device driver error code 43". I could only get the FEs to reenable once if they were already disabled when I started my PC. They didn’t enable with the full memory available and only hashed at ~1400 h/s. I tired with my 64s and without. I tried with both FEs and a single FE. I have a Biostar BTC-250 mobo and all cards running off of riser cards.

I tried resetting cards (device manager & wattman approaches) at stock AND w/ a variety of custom reg files. No matter what, even stock, it crashed. The only thing I haven't tried is using non-blockchain drivers. My understanding is that the most current non-blockchain drivers are still not optimized for mining. Perhaps, I'm wrong and now the official, non-blockchain drivers, will get you to 2K+ h/s?
I also didn't try using any Vega 56 reg files but figured they wouldn't be mapped to the FE.

I'm using the same mobo and it works out of the box. I used the same steps as building any other vega rig and it works. Using Aug 23 blockchain drivers, overdrive tool to undervolt (min voltage is 950mv or so no matter what i set) and MSI AB to further undervolt (to 850mv).

My settings of 1400core/1100 mem/850mv gives 2100h/s. Lowering core to 1330 still give 2050h/s.

Did not use any registry mods at all.

What's so weird is that disabling and re enabling the card in device manager with the beta blockchain drivers and NO reg mods still give me the same device error. Are you on riser cards?