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https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59297/gigabyte-confirms-working-custom-rx-vega/index.html

Not forgetting the application compatibility issue.

That's the base clock. Boost clock is 1,5 Ghz and being the Vega FE quite limited in reaching the max boost clock of 1,6 GHz (practically hovering at 1,45 Ghz at least on the air version) by thermal throttling, I wouldn't expect a big difference in actual performance between the two.

OK, that's also a point but it was only an example for better understanding that yes, in certain markets Vega IS competing quite well with GP102.

It is competing with the PRO version of the GP102, this is the sense. And it competes quite well, indeed, with the Vega FE often outperforming the P6000 for a fraction of the price.

Surely it seems there is some CPU bottleneck on NV cards, but it is strange, notoriously it's the AMD drivers having an higher overhead and at 1080p and anyway the AMD cards do not seem limited in the same way (which is two times as strange). But as 1080P performance is quite good, the hit at...

Yes, of course, it is only another proof of the Vega drivers being in a really poor condition.

And a disaster at resolutions above... it has completely no sense, probably drivers are still a lot bugged (either the 1080 results are skewed because an incorrect rendering, or the higher resolutions are bugged, ot both, even if there should be a mention in the review about incorrect rendering)

As far as I understood, there will be a "automatic mode" in the drivers that will specifically work for increasing the primitive discard rate and thus speeding up the geometry processing. I can only guess that is taking a lot of time to implement it because of possible compatibility issues with...

I never spoke about 65 MH/s hash rate, I think however that 45 could be achievable, maybe a little more.

Yes, I know that, but I'm also taking in account that Vega has ~ 2 times the raw compute power than a 580 and Latencies should be better in HBM2 that GDDR5. I'm not saying that we'll see a doubling of the performance, but it's likely that with some mods Vega could break the 40MH/h barrier.

Yes, I think there is also some headroom left, because i.e. for Polaris cards there are some modifications "avalilable" allowing them to be more optimized and thus achieving higher than usual MH rate. At the moment those are not yet available for Vega, AFAIK. Moreover, looking at a pure...

In reality it depends. I know some miners that purchased RX Vega, as they planned to undervolt the core and overclocking only the memory. They obtained a 37MH/h value, that is higher than everything Nvidia has in the consumer space, even if optimized (blockchain driver but no BIOS mod). That...

Yes, the uses are primarly in finance/banking but there are other applications under development, in the administrative / notary's department, and in supply chain traceability. Not even speaking of security.

It depends, do you know that mining is something useful, and this is the reason it is worth money?