AMD Vega, Is it a bust?
As more and more news is released about the new AMD Vega cards, im starting to think that its nothing more than an updated Fury X gpu.....
I know from a mining aspect, those tdp numbers are super high... i would be worried that this card would perform worst than amd gpu's from 2 years ago in regards to mining..
What do you guys think about the new Vega's? Are they a bust or not?
When first new came about nvidia mining gpus people speculated about 60mhs turned out to be triple less. But anyway if mining will continue to be profitable people will buy any video cards that can mine.
Saw some speculation concerning the performance would be 25% higher than a Fury X. I have absolutely no idea whether it's true or not, but the RX Vega does not seem like a good mining card. Gamers care less about TDP, plus TDP does not equal power draw. We will just have to see when independent reviewers post results!
i agree to a point, i was in high hopes of it being a great mining card, i was planning to pick up a few.. but its looking more and more to be an average card that is already available on the market.. just maybe a little better at things like zcash and eth due to the special memory... Most gpu miners run between 65-75% tdp, so the tdp watts really do make a difference especially if its not really all that more powerful than a fury x
My point regarding TDP is Nvidia and AMD (and Intel for that matter) calculate TDP differently, plus TDP is Thermal Design Power and not power draw.
Fx. 480 has a TDP of 150W, BUT the power draw is around 164 for the reference model(stock). To make matters even worse the GTX 1070 has a TDP of 150W but a powerdraw around 148W. This is super confusing, and it properly will be too for the Vega card, but we can't say much about powerdraw until the cards are tested. :)
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