[ATTENTION] CVP 13 - Most Powerful FPGA ever

[Manojdaran]

There is a new FPGA in town. CVP 13 - A bittware product currently pre sale on mineority. The Board is powered by Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ VU13P 2E, and the rest is manufactured by Bittware. CVP 13 is rumored to be 50% faster than BCU1525, and ROI must be twice as faster than the former. The Price of one CVP 13 is $5750 exclusive of Shipping and taxes. BCU1525 is yet to be delivered and there is no single piece available anywhere for public, and it is claimed to be more powerful than VCU1525., CVP 13 that comes at 1.5x pricier, who have more bucks to try on these?

https://www.fpgadeck.com/2018/08/cvp-13-faster-than-bcu-1525-new-fpga.html

[huntingthesnark]

Not many people, I'd imagine. Given the lack of bitstreams available to joe public at the moment (many are promised/in development/private), I think a lot of people will wait and see what happens with the BCUs, and the bear market too. Bit chicken and egg at the moment for bitstream devs, to be fair.

[Manojdaran]

Developers are working around the clock but Im sure they will release bitstreams only when they are profited something from that for some time.

[melpheos]

50% faster at 1.5x the price (which is 50% more expensive) so basically those are exactly the same if you put power consumption aside.
I'm still waiting for my 2xBCU1525 for which there is still currently no public very profitable bitstream...
So i'll pass

[Manojdaran]

Im waiting for some VCUs as well, lets see how it turns out to be

[DevelopmentBank]

Another FPGA claim!

Mineority has a great website so i'd give this the benefit of the doubt, but they probably have to describe their product in detail a bit more if they expect anyone to take this seriously. I'm not really inclined to watch a youtube video and would rather prefer to look at tech specs.

[LTCMAXMYR]

lol, do you think BCU1525 can earn back the investment in its life time?

[Manojdaran]

lol, do you think BCU1525 can earn back the investment in its life time?

You think, no one can?

[duyquang06]

Any hand-on real review 

[Bazzaar]

Any new device that bumps up the network hash rate significantly will depress the value by the same amount.
You cannot figure ROI for a new device with figures from pre-launch of that device.
It doesn't matter if its ASIC, FPGA or GPU.
Higher hashrate DOES NOT mean higher income.
Increasing YOUR hashrate with respects to the network hashrate is the only way to increase YOUR income.
This is because block creation is managed by the difficulty mechanism to produce blocks in a fixed time period.
All higher hashrate devices do is increase difficulty.
Sadly, mining is a competitive endeavour, you are competing with your fellow miners.
If you do better relative to them, you gain.
This means miners must keep up with the latest and greatest hardware or perish.
Obviously people have different budgets and more expensive hardware becomes out of reach of more and more miners.
Until people realize all this and just jump at the newest tech at any expense, everyone will suffer.
Well, at least until repetitive investment in new tech fails to improve return.
Its got to worse, before it gets better.
The only people getting rich in a gold rush are those selling picks and shovels.
Reality bites.
Sorry to put a downer on mining.

Baz