AMD RX Vega Mining Performance Reportedly Doubled With Driver Updates

[FordGT90Concept]

Eh, I don't buy the argument that running a card at 100% load for extended periods of time really impacts life span. It just exposes design flaws faster. A card with crappy hardware might last just over a year under normal gaming load but when stressed, they could crap out in a month. A card with good hardware shouldn't care if it was stressed for a year or five years.

Where's the evidence that this card that survived a month was ever used for mining?

 

[Vya Domus]

Eh, I don't buy the argument that running a card at 100% load for extended periods of time really impacts life span. It just exposes design flaws faster. A card with crappy hardware might last just over a year under normal gaming load but when stressed, they could crap out in a month. A card with good hardware shouldn't care if it was stressed for a year or five years.

Where's the evidence that this card that survived a month was ever used for mining?

This has occurred multiple times , where they incredibly unlucky ? Maybe , more than likely not. Mining does kill cards more often than gaming.

It's so easy to put a broken card in the oven and often make it work just like new , you don't seriously imply this isn't a thing.

 

[cdawall]

This has occurred multiple times , where they incredibly unlucky ? Maybe , more than likely not. Mining does kill cards more often than gaming.

It's so easy to put a broken card in the oven and often make it work just like new , you don't seriously imply this isn't a thing.

Depends on what kind of gaming we are talking about. Running games 16hours a day everyday at full tdp wouldn't be anymore stressful than mining at 60-70% tdp

 

[R-T-B]

There is no manufacturing capacity that can satisfy this mining idiocy. And no one is going to build a new plant just to satisfy these demands when it can die over night. Just too much of a gamble increasing manufacturing capacities 10 fold and then it all dies off over night. It's why we have such clusterf**k. If there was guaranteed capacity needed, the'd done it already.

That's complete BS. Eventually, hardware acquisition cost exceeds proft margin, even for miners, as the amount of possible profit remains fixed.

The fact is the manufacturers are enjoying the high prices as much as anyone, and that's why they aren't ramping up production more than anything.

We are blaming crypto miner degenerates for the major part...

So it's "degenerate" to make money off a product (AND run a payment network) you were planing on gaming on?

If you ask me honestly, if anyone is degenerate, it's the gamers. But I don't get judgemental and sling insults, so no one is.

I think they can. Afaik, mining is mostly about FP66

Not at all really, no.

Couldn't they cripple performance with x+ GPUs detected in a system unless you buy a card specifically for it? Or do cards not communicate at all with mining?

Cards do not use the bus for anything but submitting hashes with mining, so no, they don't communicate.

That is when you switch to a different coin lol.

Irrelevant. Everyone cashes out in bitcoin.

What you're doing here is pretty unfair and IMO even offending to part of this community.

Most people that get into an investment before the bubble make a profit - this is fairly basic stuff.
But most people that start after the "greed" moment (from the graph in @efikkan 's post) don't make a profit.
So if this turns out to be a bubble and profitability stays on current level (or more likely: drops even further), people that started in June will lose money.

Your role in this is pretty simple. You're the one who made the hugely popular mining thread - you've presented mining as a great investment with no risk ("free money"), you've consulted people on setting up their rigs etc. It was most likely the first time many people on TPU really decided to learn something about mining (me included) and some of them invested into it as a result.

After merely 2 months you're simply telling those people that they started to late. Nice going.

More mining doesn't help him though, it hurts him, which pretty much shoots a hole in any benefit argument you can make against him.

Also, people have been trying to apply that graph to bitcoin since bitcoin was $20.00. It doesn't work.

 

[Vya Domus]

and that's why they aren't ramping up production more than anything.

I am still highly doubtful of that , like I previously said they already have deals in place in terms of how many wafers they can get. Ramping up production could be simply too costly for them or impossible , remember AMD/Nvidia aren't making more per card , they are just selling more of them than usual.

 

[justanother gamer]

running a R 7 1800x with a R9 270x (pulled from Old system which is still running a I930 just waiting for AMD to put the vega 64 liq cooled on the market. Many cant afford the cards even the low end but the 700 is still a good deal, but hey thats their delema. ive never data mined but may look into it, just wondering do data miners have their own secret hand shake )

 

[cdawall]

I am still highly doubtful of that , like I previously said they already have deals in place in terms of how many wafers they can get. Ramping up production could be simply too costly for them or impossible , remember AMD/Nvidia aren't making more per card , they are just selling more of them than usual.

Actually this is completely wrong. AMD/Nvidia is making more per wafer since they can now sell "damaged" cards to miners as mining cards. So per card cost is down increasing per card profit.

 

[notb]

That's complete BS. Eventually, hardware acquisition cost exceeds proft margin, even for miners, as the amount of possible profit remains fixed.
(...)
More mining doesn't help him though, it hurts him, which pretty much shoots a hole in any benefit argument you can make against him.

These arguments are incorrect. Possible profit (in a period of time) is not fixed. Supply of crypto is infinite and demand is still growing.
The big unknown is whether central banks and financial institutions choose to utilize open currencies (BTC, ETH or something) or make fully controlled new ones.

 

[Vya Domus]

Actually this is completely wrong. AMD/Nvidia is making more per wafer since they can now sell "damaged" cards to miners as mining cards. So per card cost is down increasing per card profit.

What do you mean damaged ? They seem to be fully enabled chips from what I see meaning they come from the same supply of wafers that the consumer variants come from.

 

[AsRock]

It's almost as if AMD doesn't really care about gamers. Everyone should refuse buying second hand cards. That's f**k miners up as they won't get any financial returns from the hardware. And refuse to buy new ones if prices get stupid. That'll force AMD to decide who they want to support. Gamers or dumb a** miners. Cancerous mining nonsense...

Could not agree more but.

Maybe AMD needs to consider a separate SKU and/or driver for mining cards.

Yeah but then people be bitching that it was not done with the other cards as seen as there was no hardware changes required.

AMD is in a Catch 22, dammed if they do and dammed if they don't.

As seen as the AMD cards are just as exspenive as the high end nVidia cards i may as well go for one of those now even more so with Arma being my main game still.

AMD should higher prices so these company's are grabbing all the profits for them self's, when really it should be AMD getting the money.

 

[R-T-B]

These arguments are incorrect. Possible profit (in a period of time) is not fixed. Supply of crypto is infinite and demand is still growing.

No, because everyone exchanges via BTC. BTC has a fixed, decreasing release rate and market cap is not infinitely growing. It would reach a point of equilibrium.

 

[hat]

@Captain_Tom
I paid almost $900 for two 1070s, and have so far earned roughly $80 by mining

 

[cdawall]

What do you mean damaged ? They seem to be fully enabled chips from what I see meaning they come from the same supply of wafers that the consumer variants come from.

570D that a good chunk of the AMD stuff is based off of is a further disabled Polaris die, the 1060/1080's have outputs removed on the vast majority the clocks on some are also dropped well under reference for the OE dies, no TDP listings etc. These will be bad bin chips, 30 day warranty means basically DOA only warranty. You don't think they took the highest end chips and resold them to miners at lower cost do you?

 

[Vya Domus]

570D that a good chunk of the AMD stuff is based off of is a further disabled Polaris die, the 1060/1080's have outputs removed on the vast majority the clocks on some are also dropped well under reference for the OE dies, no TDP listings etc. These will be bad bin chips, 30 day warranty means basically DOA only warranty. You don't think they took the highest end chips and resold them to miners at lower cost do you?

And most chips that are still functional but don't meet the voltage/clocks requirements are far in between. These can be returned in the 30 days window along side the DOA stuff too. Yes they can resell some chips that they couldn't before but it's still not enough to make them clap their hands in excitement nor does it reduces the per wafer cost greatly on their end. The money they pay to fabs and the supply is still the same and it's still a limiting factor.

Point is , if they really wanted to profit from this situation in a meaningful way they would need completely different deals with the fabs and much higher MSRPs from the get go.

 

[notb]

No, because everyone exchanges via BTC. BTC has a fixed, decreasing release rate and market cap is not infinitely growing. It would reach a point of equilibrium.

"via" - not "to"

Also, you are aware of the fact than when e.g. nicehash delays your payment (even for weeks), they're not keeping those BTC on their books, right?

 

[R-T-B]

"via" - not "to"

No, via AND to. You switch to BTC and cash out. You STILL exchange to BTC prior to sale. Everyone does.

Also, you are aware of the fact than when e.g. nicehash delays your payment (even for weeks), they're not keeping those BTC on their books, right?

I have no idea, I have never used nicehash. The last pool I mined on was btcguild. It certainly kept books.

 

[notb]

No, via AND to. You switch to BTC and cash out. You STILL exchange to BTC prior to sale. Everyone does.

OK, so you're not using a mining pool now, but you know how they work (at least from the user/practical point of view).
So lets say you're mining ETH or ZEC or something, but you "switch to BTC" (whatever that means) and cash out as soon as possible - that's the general workflow.

So here are 2 questions for you:
1) How many wallets and in which cryptos do you need to do that?
2) Assuming you're mining at day 0, how will crypto transfers look between your wallets?

I believe that analyzing this scenario will tell us a lot about what's actually happening.

And BTW: I've just started mining! :-D

 

[R-T-B]

OK, so you're not using a mining pool now, but you know how they work (at least from the user/practical point of view).
So lets say you're mining ETH or ZEC or something, but you "switch to BTC" (whatever that means) and cash out as soon as possible - that's the general workflow.

So here are 2 questions for you:
1) How many wallets and in which cryptos do you need to do that?
2) Assuming you're mining at day 0, how will crypto transfers look between your wallets?

I believe that analyzing this scenario will tell us a lot about what's actually happening.

And BTW: I've just started mining! :-D

There are many ways to answer that question, but generally you need a wallet for every currency type involved. Usually users today trust the exchange to manage the books there but I wouldn't, personally. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but either way I promise you books are kept and every exchange to btc noted.

Good luck mining. I'd have ran like hell if I were you. Investing is far easier and even it is stressful as heck.

 

[cdawall]

And most chips that are still functional but don't meet the voltage/clocks requirements are far in between. These can be returned in the 30 days window along side the DOA stuff too. Yes they can resell some chips that they couldn't before but it's still not enough to make them clap their hands in excitement nor does it reduces the per wafer cost greatly on their end. The money they pay to fabs and the supply is still the same and it's still a limiting factor.

Point is , if they really wanted to profit from this situation in a meaningful way they would need completely different deals with the fabs and much higher MSRPs from the get go.

More cards is more cards, less cost is more profit. You also don't know yields so how can you say if this made a debt or not? Do you work for tsmc/glofo?

 

[Prince Valiant]

This should just depress poeple:

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/8229/ethereum-mining-1gh-40-gpus-5000-per-month/index.html

Spoiler

To be fair, his mining set up required shit loads of devotion and loads of cash but still, to me it's just another blight on our world of quick cash grabs at the expense of others.

Stop mining and do some folding. You might get some cash back but it wont cure your cancer.

The box stacking in that picture is horrendous.

Actually this is completely wrong. AMD/Nvidia is making more per wafer since they can now sell "damaged" cards to miners as mining cards. So per card cost is down increasing per card profit.

Any proof of this happening or are you speculating?

 

[R-T-B]

I was hoping to find out details on the power consumption but doesn't look he did it. His bill was probably $1000/mo. If this keeps up, I wouldn't be surprised if power companies add surcharges for people that surge in power consumption.

Not a new idea by any means. Mines been doing this for literally DECADES before computers existed, let alone miners.

 

[cdawall]

Any proof of this happening or are you speculating?

RX570D/RX470D feature 1792 shaders vs 2048.

P106/P104 based nvidia products lacking a video output means artifacting doesn't matter as long as they don't crash the driver.

 

[Vya Domus]

Do you work for tsmc/glofo?

Then your guess is as good as mine. I'm just basing my assumptions on how it typically is.

 

[cdawall]

Then your guess is as good as mine. I'm just basing my assumptions on how it typically is.

How what typically is, we have never in the history of gpu production had such a huge run on equipment.

 

[Vya Domus]

That's the thing , this situation is occurring in a time when the manufacturing of these devices is still driven by the "old rules".

Your saying AMD/Nvidia managed to adapt in no time and make huge gains in terms of profitability in an industry where deals are made years before production even begins. Although they are certainly not losing cash , they are not in a perfect situation from which they can profit at full capacity either.