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Title: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: it5d0n3d3al on October 13, 2017, 04:09:36 PM Ive read that bitcoin gold will potentially use equihash algo which can possible be mined with GTX 1070 and so on. Just wondering if RX 580 can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold?
Title: Re: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: DebitMe on October 13, 2017, 04:12:00 PM Ive read that bitcoin gold will potentially use equihash algo which can possible be mined with GTX 1070 and so on. Just wondering if RX 580 can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold? Yes it can, if BTG ends up using equihash, it will be the same underlying algorithm as ethereum. So any card or device that can mine eth will be able to mine BTG. Title: Re: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: Vann on October 13, 2017, 04:18:57 PM Yes BTG will use Equihash (same as ZEC), if the developers can successfully get it working in time for the fork. On Equihash RX 580's should get ~325 H/s with around a 1340 MHz core clock and 1950 MHz memory overclock. ETH uses Ethash.
https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/pull/15 Title: Re: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: DebitMe on October 13, 2017, 04:58:50 PM Yes BTG will use Equihash (same as ZEC), if the developers can successfully get it working in time for the fork. On Equihash RX 580's should get ~325 H/s with around a 1340 MHz core clock and 1950 MHz memory overclock. ETH uses Ethash. https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/pull/15 Oops your right, I put the wrong altcoin. yes, same as zcash Title: Re: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: it5d0n3d3al on October 13, 2017, 06:46:19 PM awesome thanks for the replies... good to hear RX 580 is capable of mining Bitcoin GOLD!
Title: Re: RX 580 Mine Bitcoin Gold? Post by: Za1n on October 13, 2017, 07:05:29 PM awesome thanks for the replies... good to hear RX 580 is capable of mining Bitcoin GOLD! Yep, like the others above said its the same algo as Zcash. While the AMD line is not quite as efficient as Nvidia at Equihash, it is still mine-able, especially if the profits are there. When Zcash first launched late last October a lot of the Ethereum hashrate moved over for about a month and many of those miners I am sure were using AMD cards (I know first hand as I was one of them). Anyway, since Nvidia normally does a better job on Equihash, most of the articles you encounter will probably reference those cards versus their AMD counterparts. The only time you would need to worry about it is if you were considering buying new cards just for mining BTG, keep in mind in general Nvidia is good at Equihash, while AMD is good Ethash. |