IMHO, better to invest in the 5600/5700XT because better resale value, BIOS mod gives good results, good power/hash ratio

While cost game is important factor, stable rig without any babysitting, lights out operation and can be placed in remote DC/warehouse etc. the 5x00 is worth it.

BBT's latest video on 5600XT seems to deliver best performance - check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghxzsrDFJ4
Best Bang for the Buck Mining GPU for Ethereum 5600XT 6GB DDR6
Posted on 1st Sept 2020

Nvidia not so strong as it once was.
most of the algo advantages are now slowly being FPGA'd
ill be replacing my whole farm for sure this series tho, over 100x 1080tis. i skipped 20 series, werent worth it
likely ill replace with all 3070, but maybe 3080, need to get one to see about the X mem first
the 3070 dosent have that X mem, COULD make a difference, we will see


if ETH hits 800$CDN in next 2 weeks tho, then ill sell some and use profits to buy 3090s maybe :p
just not sure yet , that card is so big dik haha, some of my rigs will need new PSUs and maybe even boards to handle it :/


IF we saw a "pill" for this series, that would make the difference, but with how it was received last time, fat chance of that happening

Source : https://twitter.com/RedPandaMining/status/1301935848493993984

Quite profitable mining ETH, after 5 days of mining with ~7,3 Gh/s got a block of 8,56 ETH 

defi tokens were a scam from the very beginning, this is a normal bubble. I have no idea how they were accepted for Binance

Interesting, that Dag creation for 4gb cards gives a pain, well if it is working it will gives a constant relief to us and to all rx 570 4gb user, by the way since this is an old version of claymore, do you think that the old amd driver will work for it? How about blockchain driver?

This miner is free-to-use, however, current developer fee is 2.5%, every hour the miner mines for 90 seconds for developer.
If you don't agree with the dev fee - don't use this miner.

This version is for recent AMD videocards only: 7xxx, 2xx, 3xx and 4xx, 2GB or more.

There are builds for Windows x64 and for Linux x64 (tested on Ubuntu 12.04). No 32-bit support. No NVidia support.

v4.0:

- no DAG files anymore.
- removed "-dir" option.
- Bug fixes.

There is nothing fun about mining, is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing and in the end you never get the amount of money you put in and if you do get the same amount you put in then you are lucky. However mining is not bad if you live in a winter state, always cold, mining can cover some of the cost with heating but that is the only exception. There are various videos of people that had serious complications because of the heating mining have done to them. The change in the temperature is dramatic, a mining place in a tropical country can reach 50 to 60 Celsius easily even with many exhaust fans and staying on a temperature like that for few hours can cause unreversible damage to people, especially in the brain.

The 3070ti will have to be a hell of a card, i mean, the 3070 is a disappointment and maybe that is what nvidia intended to do, 3070 raw performance is way behind the 3080, so much so that I think the 3070 is somehow a 3060 super because of the 256bit memory hehe, nvidia launched an early 3060 super hehe and that is the 3070 ehhe, the 3070ti might be the real 3070, looking back 2016, there was a gtx 1070 256 bit and the 1080 256 bit too, 1070 was clearly the only gpu to have, nvidia killed the 1080 on arrival, now they've chosen to kill the 3070 on arrival too hehe, if wasn't for the 320 bit memory and amazing raw performance of the 3080, that would be dead of arrival too, can still use it for a year or 2, depending the games you play and the monitor you have, I myself have a 4k monitor and I just can't go back to 1440p anymore.

Nvidia chose the 8nm because they went previously 12nm, so 16nm, 12nm, 8nm and likely 4nm next and also chose samsung because of favours between friends hehe, tsmc is more inclined to amd.

There is no point waiting for the 3080ti and if it comes will be next year march~august, around that and that is too far away, amd can have a 5nm ampere killer by then. AMD is not like before, we still have to see this bignavi but amd changed, they are different, they could this time still lag behind nvidia but they are getting closer to nvidia on every release. The 5700 was amazing, I did not think they could compete equally with 12nm 2070 on price performance and they did. So i'm not counting AMD out at this time.

Those benchs looks very close to what I predicted, 3090 around 20% faster than 3080, and 3080 50% faster than 3070.

I have a feeling that is exactly what nvidia is trying to do. I mean most people dont plan to upgrade from their gtx 1080ti because it has 11gb and if they have a 1440 or a 4k monitor, can still even play many games at 4k with that amount of gddr, 10GB for a 3080 this time and age is low, I say that 16gb is minimum for a card like that, even if it was a 12gb would be doable. It's funny, the 3090 24gb x 10gb 3080, nvidia really want people to buy the 3090. Nvidia simply killed the 3080 even before launching it, dead on arrival.

Wow this was before I started in 2016, what was the speedup of going from not in VRAM -> VRAM?

If that's the case, the next logical place to store it would be in the system RAM, upgrading that is super easy and it would be the next fastest access place..

This could be a big big deal..

v4.0:

- no DAG files anymore.
- removed "-dir" option.
- Bug fixes.

Speed is the same, but today is new epoch #47, probably you remember speed for epoch #46.

If you have HDD, not SSD, you will see that v4.0 starts much faster. If you have slow CPU you will see the same.

According to this article : https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/far-cry-new-dawn-pc-graphics-performance-benchmark-review,6.html#:~:text=Far%20Cry%20New%20Dawn%20will,the%20upper%20limit%20being%20used.&text=Again%2C%20all%20cards%20consume%20roughly%20the%20same%20amount%20of%20VRAM.

Far Cry New Dawn is very far from filling 11GB, not even half that, in 4K.

You have done it right, eth would no way sustain that crash below $100 for long, that was the right time to buy, hell even $150 was a good price at that moment. Bubble here is only on defi, eth and btc is no way in a bubble, is far from a bubble yet. ETH 2.0 is coming and that is huge, for now price seems to be indicating it will crash but I do not go along with it, any crash on eth or btc now is simply the people that want the quick money, whales know the big bull run is coming and they are slowly preparing for it. I would at this moment position myself to what is coming in few weeks.

There is a 2080ti XC on Amazon for $1299...the 3070 could be a game changer...if you can get your hands on 1 (or 6).


https://www.tweaktown.com/news/74698/geforce-rtx-3070-should-offer-2080-ti-level-performance-for-599/index.html

I am thinking this could last until early january.

just remember that the bitmain eth miner can be upgraded to more ram and mine .

the miner was not very efficient so if they used all the same parts but more ram 🐑 it would not be as good as amd 5700.

i would think they could make one with more ram and more efficient. I would look out for this to occur.

May take until January and wont be done unless mining ⛏ keeps doing well.

This fear of mine has prevented me from really pushing on buying cards.

The 3090 is targeted at AI ie, deep learning..., if for gaming 24gb makes no sense, not bad to have but no point in having for games that amount right now, 16gb should be the normal for 2020, 2016 was 8gb, only 16gb makes sense for a flagship like rtx 3080 in this time and age. It seems micron is having a hard time to produce enough gddrx6 for it, they dont want to sacrifice the ones on 3090 and want the 3080 to take the hit, I guess the 3090 has a higher margin of profit, so the good gddrx6 memory modules will all go to 3090 and the leftover to 3080. I guess nvidia will launch a 3080 super later on with 16gb once things get to hard mass production at micron factories.

The 3090 is targeted at AI ie, deep learning..., if for gaming 24gb makes no sense, not bad to have but no point in having for games that amount right now, 16gb should be the normal for 2020, 2016 was 8gb, only 16gb makes sense for a flagship like rtx 3080 in this time and age. It seems micron is having a hard time to produce enough gddrx6 for it, they dont want to sacrifice the ones on 3090 and want the 3080 to take the hit, I guess the 3090 has a higher margin of profit, so the good gddrx6 memory modules will all go to 3090 and the leftover to 3080. I guess nvidia will launch a 3080 super later on with 16gb once things get to hard mass production at micron factories.

I have about 2.5 ghs... so much that i've popped the main breaker   

Yeah i think I purchased enough cards for now.

Radeon 5000 series currently have a large lead on NVidia 2000 series when it comes to ETH mining effeciency/profitability.  Assuming you will be able to get a hold of 6 3080's in the next 3 weeks at $700 each, they would have to do close to 100Mhz on ETH to be equivalent to the 5700XT's.  I seriously doubt they will even approach that number.

Now granted, i totally get that Nvidia GPUs are better at mining other algos, but let's be honest... right now, all the money is in ETH mining. Maybe that ends next week (i sure hope not) but you can only go with what you have.  Plus, losing 3 weeks of mining at these rates would be insanely crazy, especially since I already have it 90% bought.

Personally, I am much more eager to see what the Radeon Big Navi cards are going to be capable of. That's why I will likely be holding off on building my next rig until after they are released.