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Title: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: pengoau on October 28, 2011, 12:17:38 AM G'day
I'm looking at a gpu upgrade for games and also bitcoin mining amongst other things, the 6950 is the better of the two when it comes to games performance I've found but is about $30-$50 more expensive to what I can get a GTX 560 for around here. The drop in performance on the Nvidia is not that bad (about 5-10fps) and in some instances bests the 6950, and you have a saving of $50 there abouts? refer: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/330?vs=293 Anyway how does the 560 rack up with bitcoin mining performance compared to the 6950? I take it the ati is still better based off the games benchmarks but won't be anything massive? Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: nmat on October 28, 2011, 12:32:29 AM ATI is always better for mining. See here (when the sites comes back): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
EDIT: here is (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9FiOofDGPJAJ:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison+Mining_hardware_comparison&cd=1&hl=pt-PT&ct=clnk&gl=pt) the cached version. 6950 will give you ~360.62 Mhash/s and the 560 will give you ~75 Mhash/s Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Raptorblaze on October 28, 2011, 12:33:39 AM You can look it up in the chart here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
It won't load for me at the moment. But in all honesty comparing ATI cards to NVIDIA cards in terms of bitcoin performance is like comparing a GPU to a CPU. Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: pengoau on October 28, 2011, 03:40:34 AM woah whats the reason for the massive difference?!
Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: smickles on October 28, 2011, 03:46:57 AM woah whats the reason for the massive difference?! They are designed in different ways with different priorities. (I wish I could be more specific or post a link to information, There was a TWiCH that explained it well)Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Primitive Caveman on October 28, 2011, 05:19:05 AM Yeah, architecture makes a big difference with mining.
Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Gabi on October 28, 2011, 05:24:10 AM Go with ATI
Nvidia epic sucks at mining. Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Fiyasko on October 28, 2011, 02:23:12 PM woah whats the reason for the massive difference?! It's the # of Stream Proccessor Cores, And the fact that AMD doesnt WASTE their time on a Stupid Shader clock. It's all about Raw GPUcore speed Lol also, A $130 Radeon5830 gets 300mh/sec when overclocked, and roughly 275mh/sec when it's not Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Fiyasko on October 28, 2011, 02:30:43 PM Go with ATI Nvidia epic sucks at mining. Ewwww only go with ati if your on a budget, Pick a freakin AMD gpu (im loling) Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: madmadmax on October 28, 2011, 02:58:30 PM ATI saves electricity on the long run
Title: Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining? Post by: Fiyasko on October 28, 2011, 03:39:41 PM ATI saves electricity on the long run (lol) What are you talking about ATi Chips are Ancient, I havend used one in more than a year now. (LOLLLL) |