RX Vega Cards Reportedly Great for Mining

The current cryptocurrency mining boom – thanks to Ethereum – is keeping GPUs stocks low and prices high. Gamers hoped the release of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega cards would help ease the situation. However, reports suggest Vega could make it even worse. How? Because RX Vega, according to rumour, is a prolific mining tool.

RX Vega Cards: Twice The Mining of Vega Frontier

According to VideoCardz, the new RX Vega driver allows cards to gain double the performance of Vega Frontier. VideoCardz reports:

“This information comes from a good source of mine, but for now, take it with a grain of salt. Apparently, new features were enabled on the latest RX Vega driver, which have also (indirectly) increased mining performance of Vega.

I’m not a fan of sharing numbers I can’t verify, but we are looking at at least doubled Vega Frontier mining performance (which has a hash rate of ~30 MH/s).”

RX Vega: “Insanely Good” at Mining

OCUK’s Gibbo later confirmed VideoCardz’s report:

“Seems the hash rate on VEGA is 70-100 per card, which is insanely good. 🙁

Trying to devise some kind of plan so gamers can get them at MSRP without the miners wiping all the stock out within 5 minutes of product going live.”

Incidentally, VideoCardz source expects a number lower than one-hundred. But, so long as that number remains above 70, that’s still very impressive. And probably bad news for us.

Gamers Dispair

To counter the mining rush, AMD is releasing its Vega cards in greater volumes. This is intended to meet high demand while keeping prices as low as possible. But will it be enough? If anyone is going to suffer from this situation, it’s going to be PC gamers.