Who is buying these things at 800 dollars? At that rate why not go with a 1080 Ti? The Vegas are only amazing at Cryptonight from what I can tell. Almost a cryptonight ASIC as a mining card...
Why wouldn't they? A modified vega gets double what a 1080ti can net you in returns. Even if it's cryptonight/ethereum only there are these things called Exchanges where you can then convert to your coin of choice. Not sure if you've heard of them before.
Not anymore my friend. A 1080Ti, albeit overpriced, will now net you more per day than a Vega. If the Vega was priced at MSRP then there would be no contest. But at $800+, there are better choices out there.
You do realize the only reason for that is the sudden pump zclassic/zcash/zcoin/hush have had in the last couple days right? Once difficulty adjusts Vega will still be better over all. When monero pumped from 140 to 400 vegas we're making 4X+ what anything else made. Guess what the difficulty caught up with moneros price and we're back at old profitably, same will happen with the 1080tis and we'll be back with vega as #1. Btw I have both reg moded vega rigs mining ETN and 1080ti rigs mining Equihash/Lyra2z. Can't even imagine the crazy profitability we'd get per card if ETN makes a price action, would be insane.
In short the 1080ti can barely keep up with vega with huge price actions XD still no contest.
since you have both...what about power consumption and temps from the wall? I've built a 6 Vega 56 rig -unmodded, for another person- and they are generating a good amount of money consuming like 135-140W. Great stuff. I am planning on building a rig of 1080Tis , but I wonder what's the power consumption and temps. The temps of the Vegas is in the 42º-44ºC average, and I've recently watched this video of a guy saying he makes 42$ a day with 6 1080Ti cards, however his average temps are 80ºC
and power consumption from the wall is a whooping 1800W
. The Vegas on the rig I built are making 58$, 135-140W each, 44ºC on average, do the math... But I wonder for someone who knows his stuff if that's not the case with 1080Ti cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxKtAnmwEY