Speculation about the upcoming CPU wars from AMD and Intel.

[lunaelucemauram]

As we all know Computex in Taiwan is one of the best times of the year to showcase new computer hardware. And as we are now in the middle of the showcase week of Computex, AMD and Intel are now showing their cards at the for the next their HEDT platform with Intel frist announcing their 28 core and 56 threads monster that is riddled with questionable specs by tech analysts(see link below) and AMD answering back with their 12nm Ryzen Threadripper 2 32 core and 64 thread behemoth a day after the announcement of the 28 core monster of Intel.

The question here is that with the CPU having more and more cores that can be bought to the consumer market in the 3rd and 4th quarter of this year will the CPU mining space change? As it ia becoming a much more go through option in the start of the year as GPU prices are still not in MSRP and demand of it in some areas over the globe is still lacking. What do you experts say to this?

Not to mention the upcoming new GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA also Intel is jumping to the GPU space.

Intel link: https://youtu.be/tRH0-QwhvVQ
AMD link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12906/amd-reveals-threadripper-2-up-to-32-cores-250w-x399-refresh

[edwardceng]

could happen because if I see now pretty much the coin can be mined with CPU but for finding a profit it's not a good way, better use GPU it still have opportunities to take a profit.

[vmozara]

That threadripper behemoth will probably hash Cryptonight at around 3000H/s

While it is bad idea to use it for a mining rig, I guess it is more than ok to leave your computer hashing when not in use to offset for some cost.

Right now I am on the ship and will not go home, instead of being turned off, mu ryzen 1700 and Vega 64 are doing around 2.5KH/s, already paid off part of the computer that would otherwise be unused