When AMD first announced their VEGA GPU's most people was hoping for AMD to compete with NVIDIA on the high-end GPU market. And when AMD gave the public the first glimpse of VEGA they claimed that VEGA gpu's would be great for 4K gaming. Back when VEGA was announced nobody really talked about VEGA as a mining GPU because the RX 470/480 was in stock and at reasonable prices. fast forwarding to the present AMD GPU's is sold out pretty much everywhere and NVIDIA's GPU's is selling out as well
Last week the first VEGA GPU was released which is the Frontier Edition. This GPU is not meant as a gaming GPU, but reviewers started looking into the performance of "VEGA" and was not impressed by the Frontier Edition. All though the VEGA Gaming GPU is not out yet either some miners has been speculating if VEGA would be a great mining card, and the Frontier Edition is not cheap!
For 1000 $ you can pick up the professional targeted VEGA Frontier edition, but is it worth it for miners?
Last night I read a reddit post of a guy trying out a VEGA card for mining, though his results is not backed up or validated it showed the VEGA card performing around 30-35 Mh/s which is pretty much the same as the GTX 1070 performance. That being said drivers and mining software still can be tweaked and optimized but I would not expect AMD's VEGA Frontier Edition GPU to be worthwhile when priced at 1000 $. Also the powerdraw is rather high, 300 W just makes the VEGA FE GPU even worse for miners who is concerned with their electricity bill
But what do you think? Is there hope for the upcoming VEGA gaming editions or do you stick to the RX 470/480/570/580?
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