03-11-2017, 08:27 PM
(03-11-2017, 09:00 AM)NikosD Wrote: VEGA is already faster than 1080 in OpenCL benchmarks. Take a look at the bitcoin mining.
I'm not inclined to believe that, as I just had a long discussion on Twitter with a guy who claimed the RX 480 was 4x faster than the GTX 1080 as well. Turned out his mining software was not at all optimized for Nvidia. I've also seen miners claim that the HD 7970 is faster than the GTX 980 Ti, R9 290X is faster than GTX 1070, so on and so forth. Mining has historically been an AMD game, and I strongly suspect no one is paying attention to Nvidia nor knows how to properly optimize for Nvidia. So mining benchmarks aren't at all a reflection of actual GPU performance.
That said, it's wholly possible that Vega will benchmark higher than the GTX 1080 with Hashcat as well. But that doesn't mean it's faster. Benchmarks don't run long enough for PowerTune to fully kick in. In real-world cracking scenarios, Vega will throttle like a motherfucker to keep the wattage down, as it will will still draw more power than the card can electrically support.