for gaming just buy gtx 1080/1070 the price more reasonable, vega its build for compute, only smart miner who tanking vega for now

I wonder if the price of Vega would drop significantly before the holiday season, maybe with some Black Friday deals. I'm just a hobby miner and there is very limited amount of space at home devoted to the mining rig. Plus the fact that we live in one of the coldest regions in the country. Getting a couple Vega cards does make sense if the price dropped to a reasonable level.

No throttling if you tweak your power settings a bit. Try applying power limit +5 or +10%.

Apparently everybody knows what vega is capable in regards mining, i would like to share experience in redeeming game code... the process is real joke.
Once you will get to amd rewards site, you will be required to sign up, providing your email, name phone# etc, then you will get 2 codes one via email (real long one) and another one via text, you will need to input that on same page, once you will receive them and submit, after submission, you will get another code that you will use after you will sign up to steam... and them you will get your game code (yep, another one). ONE. i dont know know how they choose which one out of 2 games offered, but you will get only one, for another game you will be offered to buy it at full price. Was about to get games for my nephew but after this whole process... i couldn't get the game he wanted, i said just screw it. In store they said you get 2 games - YOU DONT.

P.S. VEGA64 is not impressive on mining at all, counting the fact that PC eats, at the wall, on stock settings between 300-400W when mining.

I think the 580X is much better value.

I am using it to mine XMR. Easily 1000h/s on vega 64.

My whole machine with 2x Vega 64 draws 270W from the wall and does 2050h/s XMR. I only downclock core to 1080, overclock mem to 1100 and set temp target to 70.

Voltage is auto. At $499 they are pretty good value (as a 1080ti user). You will get faster ROI using 570 and 580s now, but I think we need to wait for bios mod tools to unlock vega's potential.

could you share your power draw in some pics? do u use any kind of kill-a-watt?

270 for 2 vega 64 + whole system I think it's not possible.....

awesome card

230w from the wall

liquid

My friend along found an article online and he was able to get his vega to run at 37.5MH at 180w. That hash/power ratio is better than a 1080ti.
Just go google vega hashing articles online. My friend copied the one with -24% tdp.