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Okk guys so I am new to mining. Without taking into account the availability of the cards and talking only based on their hashrates and power from the wall and ROI and also their company prices. Can you guys tell me which is the best card to use for mining. Looking at ETH/ETC now and moving on to VTC/UBIQ/ZEC/XMR.
Thanks,
Akaash

There are only handful of cards which can mine efficiently:  RX 470/480 RX 570/580 GTX 1060 1070 1080. Check your stores and see which cards you can grab for a good price point and start from there. Anyway, GTX 1060 and 1070 are quite good considering their price point and as Radeons are out of stock most of the places, they seem a fair option.

RX 470/480
RX 570/580
1060
1070
1080Ti

All of the above, except for 1080 non Ti, which is, P/P probaly the worst of them all.

Got some R9 290 mining ETH at 29.7mh/s each with no electricity costs. Still profitable at all but only with no electricity costs. You can get those if you're lucky for 170$-190$.

Greetz 

The best is gtx 1070

I think the best one right now is the GTX1070. And this one will have a better resale value then a RX480/580 since it gives way better performance for gaming.

HI EpicName

Which pool are you using and is the R9 290 overclocked ?

In order, and just now :
 GTX 1050Ti 4 GB 1 fan (cheaper),
 GTX 1070 8 GB 2 fans but only 1 6+2 pins (less power consumption in VGA BIOS settinfs),
 ... and soon : nVidia Volta (AMD VEGA is pure shit)

What is your choice, my friend :-).

I had to settle for the 1050ti.   Couldn't find anything else or couldn't get more than one.    Its not bad for the price if you can catch it on Amazon for 150.     Im a slowly build a 2nd rig and deciding between 1070 and 1060 6gb as they become available.   

I use ethermine and yes they're overclocked 1060 / 1125 .

1080TI is by far the BEST one, but might not be the most cost effective!

1050ti best card you can get

Depending on what you mine and if you can get them.

If you mine ZCash i think the 1080 is the best way to go. If you want a long term solution the 1070 is your best pick.

As far as i know the MSI ones are perfect (like these https://cryptosupply.xyz/product/msi-geforce-gtx-1070-gaming-8g/ ).

I do have 12 GTX 1070's now and i'm happy with it since i can mine Zcash at 450 Sols and Ethereum at 31 so they both do great

290/290x still the best cards considering the cost second hand on ebay and others.

I will go for gtx 1080Ti

I go only with 1080TI: http://mylifegadgets.com/GTX1080TI

If the 290x cards wont cut it for you, you can get most bang for your bucks with the nvidia 1070 cards.

i love my rx470s, low power consumption and nice hash with bios mods  :D
are there better options?

Well, sure the rx470 is a very nice graphicscard, although I would go for the rx480 if I were to buy AMD.

You are lucky you can still find rx470 in your place, here in my country it is like searching for a needle in a hay stack.
I gave up searching for rx 470, yesterday i bought 2 units of Palit gtx 1070 dual fan both have micron memory chips.
Can easily reach 30 to 31 Mh/s  with a temp. between 58 to 63 degrees celsius, i'm satisfied with the performance.

If power is a concern you can't beat the 1060 6gb, 23mhs@75w

Just don't buy 3gb cards as their days are numbered!

of course it is nice with no electricity cost

Where do you get no electricity cost, at your moms house? At school? Everybody else pays for their electricity.

Mate in your estimate how long can the 6gb hold till it can mine? I was planning to get rx 5xx but no lack hard to get, instead getting 1060 6gb but worried about the memory.

hello Akaash,

I think the best card for mining ETH / ETC / VTC / UBIQ / ZEC / XMR is gtx 1080TI 8gb

sorry bad english

I'm pretty happy with my RX470, but considering getting an Nvidia Quadro P6000. Hard to find anyone who's used it for mining though.

I strongly suggest that you NOT buy that card for mining. The vast majority of workstation cards (such as that one) are not worth the price tag for their mining performance. For the price of one Quadro P6000, you could probably build a nice rig with some 1080ti cards, and it would perform FAR better than if you spent all those funds on a P6000.

The 6gb cards are the way to go, they should be good for the foreseeable future.
The 3gb cards will not be able to handle the dag file sale around epoch 190ish!

1080 Ti 11 GB   Aorus

rx 480/580 or 1060/1070 are the best P/P

Dont get 1050TIs. You will need more motherboards, ssds, etc just to make them all run. In the end, you spend more time and money on equipment which only prolongs ROI/profit. Better to just spend an extra $50-100 on more overpriced cards.

Well I agree that the 1060 6gb cards are the best "right now". The price and the low power they use is incredible. As long as you don't get cards with Hynix memory. Completely useless.

As far as ethereum, even if POS doesn't come this year, as the difficulty rises the 1060's won't be the best card but they can still mine everything else. If money or power is of no concern, then obviously the 1080 ti's become the best card by far.

$299 - MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 Radeon RX 480 ARMOR 4G OC 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Limit 20


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137150

Looks like there's only two left. Might be all sold out by the time the next person checks

Vega has disappointed us so Rx4** and Rx5** are still the best cards for mining. They are out of stock but I think people will begin selling their cards because ROI is about 10 months.

Ya they dont stay in stock very long :( but if you manage to snatch some its always nice

1080 is not good for ETH

Thanks man! I'll wait till mid September to buy 1060, hopefully they'll have a stock and lower price.

You are mistaken my friend, it's quite the opposite.

The 1080 (at least here in the UK) is priced 10-20% higher than a 1070 and 40% lower than a 1080Ti.
I hashes over 20% faster than a 1070 in anything but Ethash and only approx 25% slower than a 1080Ti.

The 1080 has the best bang for the bucks. Period.

If you have enough money to spend get 6x 1080Ti
If you don't have then don't get in this, the difficulties are rapidly going up and any card you get will be non effective in some months.
You can at least sell the 1080Ti and recover some of your investment. The other cards will be worthless later.

Better approach may be investing the money in some less risky  coins.

Not msi rx570 armor for sure. They were the only avaible ones in my country 2 months ago and i bought many. They are the worst of rx 500 series. So cheap case, cheap fans and speed is not enough even if you make oc. I tried so many times and max speed is 28 per card...

not sure what you are complaining about 28mhs is good for a 570

I'm loving my GTX 1070 FE's - Smooth 70 degrees cranking out 32 MH/s each.