How to calculate what something like 160 MH/s really means?

[natminer]

I'm just starting out and starting to look at mining rigs that I maybe want to build or buy, and this might be a stupid question, but when someone says a 6-GPU rig does 160 MH/s for example ....  doesn't this depend on what you're mining?  Or is there some kind of universal meaning to this number.

Like, on my laptop where I'm just playing around to test various mining (not for profit obviously

For Etherium I was getting 4 MH/s,  but on the same laptop on some other coins, I'm getting 49 MH/s.  That's a huge difference. Would I say my laptop rig is 4MH/s or 49 MH/s?


Thanks in advance.

[bathrobehero]

Yeah, different algorithms have different speeds. Without context a 160 Mh/s rig is likely talking about mining Ethereum since it's one of the most popular coins to mine and newer GPUs do somewhere between 20-30 Mh/s each doing Ethereum (Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm).

[Vann]

The potential hashrate of your card is mostly dependant on the POW algorithm used. Some mining algorithms like skein or SHA3-Keccak scale better for GPU mining than others like neoscrypt or yescrypt. That's why you get different hashrates for different POW algorithms. Mining coins that use the same POW algorithm should give the same hashrate.

[cryptolover1981]

if you know the the corresponding hashrate (for example 180 MH/s ETH) go to whattomine.com and you will get all Infos you  need .

[Vaccinus]

it depend soem algo work with giga like sha256, other algo with mega and other with k or only hash, they are not comparable, you need to check the table to see what your gpu can do in all algo i recommend this one
http://yiimp.ccminer.org/bench