02-12-2019, 04:18 PM
Thanks Jardeath. Unfortunately the benchmark is not quite complete, but the results are very mixed - as expected.
Fisrt glance: The Radeon VII can most often not even gain a +20% over the Vega 64. In fast hashes like MD5 or NTLM it's even only 10% or lower. Even in hash modes where the Vega 64 already had been strong (NTLM, bcrypt) the Radeon VII is only a bit (~10%) faster.
It can sometimes match the RTX 2080 (e.g. NTLM, NetNTLMv1 , NetNTLMv1, TrueCrypt 512bit) and at the same time it falls (way) behind in most benchmarks.
Compared to the RTX 2080: slower, more energy, same price -> no recommendation
Compared to the Vega 64: a bit faster, same energy, double price -> no recommendation
It's not a bad chip, it's just way too expensive. This might work for the gamer market, where 16GB VRAM is a very nice to have for future titles. But for hashcat that's irrelevant.
Since the new chip is only 70% the size of the old one, AMD should be able to produce the Radeon VII at the same price like the Vega 64 (considering the additional HBM modules).
Fisrt glance: The Radeon VII can most often not even gain a +20% over the Vega 64. In fast hashes like MD5 or NTLM it's even only 10% or lower. Even in hash modes where the Vega 64 already had been strong (NTLM, bcrypt) the Radeon VII is only a bit (~10%) faster.
It can sometimes match the RTX 2080 (e.g. NTLM, NetNTLMv1 , NetNTLMv1, TrueCrypt 512bit) and at the same time it falls (way) behind in most benchmarks.
Compared to the RTX 2080: slower, more energy, same price -> no recommendation
Compared to the Vega 64: a bit faster, same energy, double price -> no recommendation
It's not a bad chip, it's just way too expensive. This might work for the gamer market, where 16GB VRAM is a very nice to have for future titles. But for hashcat that's irrelevant.
Since the new chip is only 70% the size of the old one, AMD should be able to produce the Radeon VII at the same price like the Vega 64 (considering the additional HBM modules).