So I have 2 Vega Frontiers that arrived today, I’ll have them setup and test them using the different drivers on claymore sometime tomorrow, in the mean while here are a few pictures.
how can you sleep and test them out tomorrow? i would not be able to do that i think hahaha
good luck, nice to see somebody testing these!
i hope you will test them with mining eth and zcash
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Since you asked, I’ll test it against ETH too
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“Look at this amazing new toy I just bought! This is so exciting! You know what, I think I will sleep on it any play with it tomorrow.” 
Such a tease.
i think he has them on his night table
I velcroed one to the ceiling so that when I woke up it was the first thing I saw, the other I duct taped to the wife’s back so I could cuddle with it!
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I got my vega yesterday as well, Right now i just tried amd sdk 3.0 , 2.9.1 and right now 2.9, So Far only Amd sdk 3.0 lets me mine anything at all on nicehash miner and on claymore it cant even create a dag so im guessing vega frontier owners are going to have to wait for a driver update or claymore or genoil to optimize their miners for vega architecture
Short Version, if you don’t want to read all of this, the Vega Frontier is, as of 07/07/2017, Not a viable crypto card mining solution. I’m sure as drivers are updated and released this will change.
Windows 10 Pro:
One of the first things I noticed is that when you download the driver from AMD, it says its version 17.6.1, but when you look in MSI afterburner & amd Radeon says its version 17.1.1
Zcash –
@Claymore : I can also confirm also that Vega frontier with Claymore 12.5 is not currently working. The error is: cannot build OpenCL program for GPU 0
I tried in pro mode and gamer mode, same results.
@Optiminer : Will also not run, error – CL_Device_not_found
While still in gamer mode:
NiceHash - Did benchmark several coins, some coins were blacked out and 2 terminated.
LBRY did Hash at (stock) settings getting $2.56 USD, before I could get a screen shot NiceHash switched over to X11Ghost (stock) at, Holy wow, $6.00 to $6.79 USD then back to $1.79 ,(someone wanted some coin!) after about 30 seconds at $1.79 it switched back to LBRY at $2.49 USD.
While mining LBRY I bumped the core up +100 and memory +200 and it hard locked the system.
In contrast the Nvidia 1080TI mines LBRY @ gets $4.42 USD stock
ETH –
Claymore:
Received the same error, Cannot build OpenCL program for GPU 0
Also received an error while dual mining DCR, GPU0, OpenCL eror -48 (0) – cannot create DAG on GPU GPU 0 failed
These additional pictures are just of one of my rigs, this one is the @cryptomined black onyx 8 gpu rack,
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thanks for posting your results, let’s hope the drivers / mining software will be updated soon.
wow congratulations on getting the frontier, and nice looking frame 
i hope they fix the miners to accept vega soon, ive been waiting and expecting a release for well over 6 months now… now the gaming cards are pushed back til end of july… and will they get pushed to end of august?
Im guessing when the rx vega and the true gaming drivers finally being available for vega architecture is when the gpu will stop acting like a buggy messy, i also ran into the claymore problem not being able to create dag or opencl issue, stuff im pretty sure can get worked out once those drivers get released. hopefully.
Hey man! I like to ask you, do you know of any newsletter that I can recieve about all of these cards coming out? Like the new Nvidia and AMD mining versions? Can you give me a link? Thank you!
Watch Cryptomined on youtube.
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well, we’re hope by update drivers of AMD and Claymore, hey try you with Excavator-miner ; maybe you’re profit be better…
It’s a waste of a video, he uses some program and says he was able to mine around 31mh but nothing about what software he used…, game mode, pro mode, doesn’t show it in his rig, just outside promo shots to make you believe he has one, and a single still frame shot that is cut off…
The program is ethminer if it can help you
I’m curious what for performance can we get on zcash.
could you try different miners
Not better than Rx 580 much…