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Title: What is the difference B/W 256bit 7950 and 384bit 7950
Post by: nawazish1 on April 29, 2013, 09:17:25 AM
Hello Guys,
I wanna know that is there any difference between 256 bit and 384 bit 7950 for mining?


Title: Re: What is the difference B/W 256bit 7950 and 384bit 7950
Post by: ewitte on April 29, 2013, 11:17:26 AM
For bitcoin no for LTC YES


Title: Re: What is the difference B/W 256bit 7950 and 384bit 7950
Post by: rograz on April 29, 2013, 01:27:13 PM
there's 256 bit ones? I thought the 256 bit Tahiti based cards were all market as 7870s.


Title: Re: What is the difference B/W 256bit 7950 and 384bit 7950
Post by: erschiessen on April 29, 2013, 04:14:20 PM
For bitcoin no for LTC YES
elaborate, please?


Title: Re: What is the difference B/W 256bit 7950 and 384bit 7950
Post by: crazyates on April 29, 2013, 04:36:37 PM
there's 256 bit ones? I thought the 256 bit Tahiti based cards were all market as 7870s.
Ya I can't find a 256-bit 7950 for sale anywhere. I don't think they make them.

For bitcoin no for LTC YES
elaborate, please?
LTC mining is very RAM intensive. Having a wider memory bus means more bandwidth, which could mean better performance.