AMD RX Vega 64 Eclipses Polaris In Ethereum Mining Efficiency By 2X – Achieves 43.5MH/s At 130W
It’s still early days for Vega, but miners aren’t wasting anytime exploiting the immense compute capability of AMD’s new graphics cards. Rumors erupted just weeks ahead of the GPU’s launch earlier last month about its incredible cryptocurrency mining capabilities. Although the touted figures at the time were too fantastical for the real world and the rumors were quickly proven to be false.
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Blows Away Polaris & Pascal In Ethereum Mining Performance & Efficiency
However, given enough time to tweak and optimize miners have already managed to push Vega’s mining efficiency to no less than double that of Polaris. One redditor shared his incredible achievement earlier today, pushing both of his RX Vega 64 to deliver more than 43.5MH/s with each card pulling no more than 130 watts from the wall. By comparison, in our Ethereum mining performance roundup the RX 480 yielded just under 25MH/s whilst pulling roughly 160 watts on its own from the wall.
The owner reports that power consumption for the whole card when measured via the power supply sensor, excluding other PC components, amounts to roughly 130W per card. With mining performance that’s out of this world we have no doubt that miners are going to strip the supply of Vega cards dry. Miners have already been gobbling up RX 580 and 570 supply for months and with Vega the situation is looking even more dire.
Vega graphics cards are already experiencing shortages world wide due to increasingly high demand from miners and Radeon gamers looking to upgrade. If you’re looking to grab an RX Vega graphics card you will want to place an order as soon as you possibly can and if you’re lucky enough you’ll get one next month. Another feasible alternative for gamers is to consider the Vega bundles that AMD is offering. For $100 you get two games and a discount on a FreeSync display. Thankfully, unlike the standalone cards which are out of stock everywhere, the bundles continue to be available.