AMD Vega Frontier

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,

3 Likes