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Hello,
What is The best GPU to buy for Ethereum mining for hashrate power draw rate today ?
Thx

it depend on how much you can invest and your consumption, but the best is hand down the 1070 at around 30MH 90w(i suspect can be tweaked to do 30MH at 80w, i need to test it, i just i don't care now, because etheruem is not a priority...), no other gpu can match this efficiency at the moment

otherwise just go with 470/480 from amd, other option are trash to be honest

It depends on GPU prices in your country. It seems like there's a shortage of AMD cards outside of the US, which leads to increased prices, while Nvidia has MSRP for many countries and the prices are close to it.

So, if GTX 1070 has better hashrate/$ in your country, you should consider this card over AMD cards.

The 1070 is more than the double of the price of 470. So it seems most of us have to use the 470 instead f 1070.

Although the 470/480 are promising, drivers are in a state of churn, and as already stated by others they are sold out almost everywhere.
I'd recommend the R9 380.  You can now find them for as lows as US$150(new, open box), and most will get around 21Mhs clocked at 820/1500, drawing around 7J/Mh.  6J/Mh is possible for cards that can take a 50-75mV undervolt in addition to the 820Mhz underclock.
They work fine with the fglrx drivers under Linux, while if you're into Windoze, I'd go with Catalyst 15.7.1.

Catalyst 15.12 is better for mining on for the R9 series cards and older.

 15.7 will work though.

On Win7/64 I get slightly better hashrate from 15.7.1 vs 15.12.  15.11 was total crap.

if you have lots of cheap  power the r9 390  like this one is good

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/xfx-amd-radeon-r9-390-8gb-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-graphics-card-black-gray/8278117.p?id=1219690434699&skuId=8278117


it will do 30mh at 225- 250 watts  but it is cheap  only 250 usd

so if your power is under 8 cents get it

Or go with the R9 290.  It's cheaper and hashes at the same speed as the 390.

where can i find gtx 1070 / amd 280X / amd 380X / amd 480X comparison table with

MHSH - Power consumption

to do a comparison?

here is a price comparison for EU users


600euro --> gtx 1070
100/150 euro used --> amd 280X
200 euro used --> amd 380X
amd 480X --> 300eur

gtx 1070 are sold at 450 euro already not 600 for sure

X versions are not really for mining, it costs more but does not provide much more MH/S though

R9 280X is an exception, it DOES mine noticeably more hashrate than the R9 280.
Ditto the R9 380X vs R9 380

RX 4xx series doesn't have any "x versions" yet, as such.

no one has built a chart.

Here is a quick guide

Noflashing bios just stock bios.

All 8gb cards below

R9 390. Can do 32mh at 250 watts
Rx 480 can do 27mh at 150 watts
Rx 470 can do 25 mh at 140 watts

Those are pushing with. overclock and under volt.

if so,
it seems 470 is the best choise
with my 750 watt PSU i can run 4 gpu in a secur way

thank you

My R9 390 can do 27.5 at 160 from the wall.
My R9 nano can do 26.2 at 110W from the wall.

But they are too expensive.

MH/USD - prices in eur
R9 280x - 130, 18MH, 190W, used
R9 290 - 170, 28.5MH, 270W, used
R9 390 - 240, 30MH, 250W, new
RX 470 - 280, 25.5MH, 125W new
RX 480 - 310, 26MH, 135W new
GTX 1070 - 480, 28MH, 90W, new

more accurate one :), not considering bios modding but a tiny msi afterbuner with PL custom settings. With bios modding every vga can be tweaked, more or less.

MH/USD? r9 290
MH/W? GTX 1070

So the GTX 1070 is the best for the long term mining. It is good for other altcoin mining as well. So  might buy the 1070.

interesting

i extend your stats

https://i.imgur.com/8GABvtJ.jpg

the 1070 can do 30MH at 80w, but you need a version of msi afterburner that let you decease the power limit under 50%

hell probably even 70w, since no one have tried it i guess it may work, with -500 core

i think RX 470 remain one of the best chioise.

i don't agree, and anyway only for etheruem, it's trash on lbry and spread for example, and many other...

R9 290 is a legitimate 30MH/s card even now, modded with a BIOS from TheStilt.
It might go higher if you can keep the system cool enough.

Yeah but for eth the 4gb sapphire 1 fan model rx 470  can be had for about 185$

It can do 22mh so eight $ per mh it uses about 6 watts per mh.

A rig with four of them can do 85-88 mh using 500 watts.

My goal is to have a full case build of this to show off.

how many $ for kwatt hour are you paying??

just read over tomshardware

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-pascal,4679.html

this could be really the best choise...

quaiting for some benchmark...

For the Ethereum mining, the AMD RX 480 is better than the 1060. The 1060 is too expensive and hash less than 480.

i think the better comparison would be between gtx 1060 3GB and RX470.
better choice

gtx 1060 6GB and RX480 are too expensive and without more hashing power

I only see these cards for $199 plus $5 shipping. Maybe you are using coupons?

But the 1060 is more expensive than the RX 470. It is similar price to the RX 480. So it is not a good value to mine.

 The price range of the RX 470 and RX 480 is so close they OVERLAP considerably - and everything I've seen to date is that on COMPARABLE cards (both same maker using same ram size/speed) the RX480 does in fact hash a little faster at basically identical efficiency vs. the RX470.

 As far as I'm concerned, the 2 cards are pretty much interchangeable for Ethereum mining - and the REAL issue is AVAILABILITY - for example, as I was working on this post I checked NewEgg - and found a grand total of *3* options available, all RX 470. Other times I've checked it's been a mix or there have ONLY been RX 480s available.

 The price range of the GTX 1060 STARTS at a hair more expensive than the MOST expensive RX 480 - and goes up quite a bit from there. It is NOT really a "similar" price to the RX 480, it's a little more expensive across the board. To make a GTX 1060 a competative card it would have to hash at close to 30MH/s - and I don't remember seeing anyone achieve that in testing, in fact the GTX 1060 seems to hash a little SLOWER than the RX 470 though with a little better hash/watt ratio.

That is right.  I think I will buy the cheaper RX 480 if the price is actually cheaper than the RX 470. 480 would be faster in other algorithms.

where did you find rx 480 cheapest than rx 470???
which online store?

Yea RX 470 is a good card

still waiting to know where did you find a 480 cheapest then 470  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

I do not think you can find a cheaper 480 than the 470 if they are the same brand. The cheapest 480 is more expensive than the cheapest 470.

The cheapest 480 RX is about $270  and the cheapest RX 470 is about $200 in my country. I might buy the 470.

I have Sapphire R9 390 Nitro that does 29MH/s at 160W, temp 66deg.
I also have a Sapphire RX470 Nitro that does 27MH/s at 160W, temp 73deg.
Both have modded BIOSes and on a rig running Ubuntu 14.04 with that pained AMDGPU-Pro driver.
So for me the 390 is better, it also runs much cooler than the RX470 with its totally inferior 2-fan cooler.
But sadly, the 390 has become much pricier in the last month...

 Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1070 8MB - 55 Mh for *2* cards at 146/151 watts (151 is the card that is running the monitor), small memory-only overclock stock bios and no serious effort made at tuning yet.
 Win 7, 372.70 drivers
 Temps around 60c at about 80% fanspeed in a room that's usually around 82f.

 (no, it's not PRICE competative with the RX 480/470, but I've got longer range plans for that machine that dictated a NVidia solution but cost less than a single Titan X Pascal for same-to-slightly better performance).


 I wasn't comparing CHEAPEST 480 to CHEAPEST 470 - but I have seen some of the cheapest 480s on NewEgg dip a hair below some of the more expensive 470s - thus my comment about the price RANGE overlapping.
 And yes, this CAN happen on the same brand when you include comparing both 8GB and 4GB models, though it's not common.

I think you did not mod the BIOS of the RX 470, if you change the timing of the 470 memory, it could run faster.