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Enough money to buy any reasonably priced GPU up to GTX 1080 Ti. What would you buy right now for mining? Already have multi-GPU AMD and Nvidia.

I would go for the 1080ti for a couple of good reasons:

1. it's the best in terms of hashrate / power consumption ratio
2. it's more "future proof" compared to other GPUs because its relatively new
3. you'll get more density with your mining rigs and overall spend less on motherboards, cpus, etc.

Wait.  1180/2080 is supposed to come out in July.

And they are at MRRP

Yeah I'm wondering about the GTX 1180/2080 in July.  I wonder if it will be any better for mining. But even then I'd have to wait longer for the aftermarket models to become available.

June 15 gtx 1180 FE have premier but i wait to no reference card.

1180 come with a much lower tdp and it's faster than a 1080ti, just wait for the new card to happen, it's just oen month of waiting, 1170 also is very good on par with a 1080ti

Hmmm. Why you wait to no reference card? Please, tell

if i look at the current situation better hold your money until the market situation back to normal or wait for a new GTX release, who knows this card has a good performance also hope the price makes sense.

Agreed, good value.

I'm wondering about the GTX 1180/2080  :)

If you absolutely want to buy a card now as opposed to waiting until the next generation is available, I'd go with a 1070ti. They overclock much better than 1080s yet have nearly the same number of cores.  Yes, a 1080ti will still be faster, but you can put some of the money you save today by going with a 1070ti towards a next generation card once they are available.

try to buy 1070 it is very good at hash and only 150 watt

and you can buy AMD VEGA give you 42MH and 2000kb crypto note

I think 1080ti is too expensive, personally I choose 1070ti besides its cheaper price also hash rate not too far with 1080ti in the same algorithm.


except for the market situation back to the moon, I will buy:

■AMD
RX580 8 GB (Powercolor)

■NVIDIA
1070ti, and want to know about the new NVIDIA to be released in July

mining now with available good gpu always better than mining in the future (whenever) with some future (whatever) gpu.

OP here, So I've been having issues with my Nvidia rig, GPUs quit working.

So instead of ordering a new GPU I ordered a new motherboard, SSD, and power supply.

2x GTX 1080 Ti SC2
2x GTX 1070 Ti Mini
1x GTX 1070 SC
1x EVGA 850 B2
1x EVGA 750 B2
ASUS H170 Pro Gaming
320GB HDD
Windows 10
Latest Nvidia Driver

No matter which mining program I use it will mine for 1-2 days before 1 or more GPUs give an error in the mining program and also in device manager.

So I've ordered a different motherboard which I have a mining bios from the manufacturer (GA-Z270XP-SLI with F9A mining bios from Gigabyte tech support).
Also ordered an SSD (because the HDD is a headache waiting on it to boot.)
Also ordered Corsair HX1200i new and on sale.

So hopefully I'll be able to use a single power supply and see if I can get rid of the issue I'm having.

My 7x AMD GPU rig has zero issues on the GA-Z270XP-SLI and a single SeaSonic PRIME 1200W Gold.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I still have coin I can sell to get a new GPU, but I'd rather keep the coin and the gains if their price increases.

If buying a gpu today the 1070ti is the overall performance pick.

RX570 4GB is the budget pick.  Saw these at $220 a week or two ago.  Pretty good capital recovery at 29 mhs and 100-110 watts.  1050ti is a super budget pick, too much so imo, but ppl use them.

If you have $1k to burn on gpus, I'd be looking at these two options.

1080 ti would be great choice you can both mine with zcash and ethereum and 1070 ti or 1070 will be good if you can buy it with cheap price.
For AMD rx 570 still be good to buy for mining ethereum.
But for me since I bought my 1080 ti it gives me good more profit than the lower cards if you know about the etherpill you can increase the hashrate when mining ethereum.

What?

My best 1070ti gets 440h/s on Equihash, while my best 1080ti gets 700h/s... both with the same overclock 75% power limit, +100/+150

1080ti is the best card all around, they are just too expensive right now.  Wait a month and they will start showing up on the second hand market as people start preparing to buy the 1180.

Basically the best cards are the ones which are sold out or overpriced.

It's actually pretty crazy that in most retail stores the RX AMD series are almost double from their MSRP when they were released on the market.

Your only choice now is Nvidia however they are crazy expensive .

The 1080ti is just too risky to buy right now.  You can buy 4 polaris cards for 1 1080ti.  Capital recovery time is almost half for the 4x polaris.

Sure the 1080ti is expected to make more money eventually.  But that is pretty speculative right now.

i would not buy any card to mine right now.

Reason for not doing it are quite huge. i´ll give you some.

- they are all overpriced
- Difficulty is increasing at high levels.
- ETH PoS will destroy miners and almost 245.000Gh/s will be pointed somewhere else in search of a profitable coin which today does not exist, so probably if you are planning on buying to mine ETH, you may also consider that once PoS is applied no coin will be left profitable once all those hashrate is shared on other networks.
- AMD cards are good in Ethash algo but average on the others, while Nvidia is more of an "allrounder". You can get 32mh/s for ETH with an RX 570 4gb with a bit of luck (depending on memory), if not, just around 30mh/s, but you´ll get no more than 26mh/s with a very very very good GTX 1060. 1070's and 1070ti can do around 30-33mh/s so not the best. I have 5 RX 580 8gb that can do 32,3mh/s and payed for them half of the cost of a GTX 1070ti.

With the end of ETH, probably all gpus will make any other coin unprofitable unless somecoin takes the lead of ETH and increases it's price allowing you to mine for profit.

i you have the money and don't care about "if", buy a 1080ti or just wait to July for those 1180 or 1180ti which will be absolutely monsters. And if something goes wrong, well......you may be able to sell them with almost no money lost.

^ is basically right.  Except that, if I had to drop $900 or so on gpus for mining, I would not buy a 1080ti.

In March-April 2017 I bought an RX 470 on sale for $143. I also bought 2x RX 480 on sale for $169 ea. In December 2017 I bought an RX 580 8GB Nitro+ for $279 and a couple weeks ago bought one for $369.

Early last year a 6x GPU mining rig could be built for ~$1200. Now that will get you 3x GPUs and the rest of the stuff.

Prices do suck right now. If only RX Vega was still $399 and $499 :/

Why the "PowerColor". Are you talking about the RedDevil and Golden Triangle?

GPU's mining is dead. Don't buy GPU's

I get 562 sol/s @ 143w on my 1070ti FE using EWBF.  Settings in afterburner are:

 80% power, +240 clock, +1000 memory (Samsung  ;D)

I wasn't going to throw my input into the thread, but it seems like there is quite the divide as to which card they would buy if budget wasn't much of a concern. You can probably get two 1080ti for the price that you'd end up paying for a 1180 or 2080. People are jumping ship with their miners and the people that bought the higher end cards are panicking more, because they have more invested into the operation. A lot of miners are willing to get rid of their cards for pretty cheap and I probably won't be buying a new card, at retail for a good long while.

My vote is 1080ti, without a doubt. Best card for the money.

There's no doubt that the 1080ti has the highest hash rates, but not every miner judges the value of a card based solely on its raw performance. If you factor in the increased electricity costs and higher upfront cost of a 1080ti, it will take a while to make up the difference between that card and a 1070ti despite the higher hash rates. Since we still don't know what the performance specs and availability of 1180s will be - not to mention the direction that cryptomining will take concerning ASICs, a moderately-priced card like the 1070ti seems like a good way to reduce the risk of the investment.

BTW, you should be able to squeeze more sols out of your 1070ti.  Mine does over 500 sol/s using DSTM 6 on Windows 10 at 80% power, +225 core and +400 memory.  It is also the primary GPU in my development machine and I often write code, surf the web, etc while it is mining at these speeds without much lag.

My current strategy is to get used 4xx/5xx. But the prices on ebay is still very high for used GPUs

Definitely the 1080ti.  It isn't going to become obsolete too soon and it tends to offer the best hash rates over a larger range of coins.

eBay is rarely a good place to find used GPUs- I typically find that prices there are much higher for things like GPUs (especially GPUs more than anything, but there are occasional good deals there) than other places like Bitcointalk. I visit the Computer Hardware (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=75.0) section every other day, and I see used RX 570s and 580s every now and then right around the $200 price mark.

It's a shame prices are still so high right now- I'm personally staying away from the GPU side of things for now. Seems like most people and companies don't want to let go of their GPUs cheaply yet.

1080ti, 1080, and 1070ti are all good picks at the right price.  These all have at least 8gb in Ram and will still be relevant in the near future for mining.

wait a couple of months and the price will drop . the market is shitty now . ROI will take long with the current prices .
i am my self holding any buying now till july 

Definitely a 1080 Ti... if you can get it for a good price.

I agree with Msobh. Wait a while before buying at this point.

Based on your calculations it may seem like the RX580 is the best option and is most probably the case for "regular" home miners. But when you start considering large scale mining operations when efficiency and density is a factor, the 1080ti may be a better option. The 1080ti offers more hash power, less power consumption, less fixed costs on motherboards/cpus/ram/etc, and even higher resale value.

I never said I recommended a 1080 Ti at current prices. Only if you can get a used one much cheaper than what they sell for these days. To buy one now at current prices would be nuts.

Between AMD Navi and the next gen Nvidia cards being in the near future, it might be better simply to wait.

You can buy an inexpensive GPU for the GTX 1080 Ti. AMD and Nvidia have a multi-GPU. The hashrate / power ratio is the best.

the 1080ti would def. be a good choice like  MrN1ce9uy said put it. but also its late along the year now and new generation is coming out really soon. you could also wait for next gen that u can get at least %20 more power with close cost. better in my opinion for long term projects

My choice is GTX 1070ti or 1080ti. But if you choose from them I still choose 1080ti as they are newer and sell them is not difficult. The choice is up to you.