AMD FirePro S10000 Server Graphics Card

[Liquid]

Would this be good for mining ?

[monstrs]

It could be good, but i think it worth too much to be profitable. ASICs is coming so this card would not pay for itself.
If you already have this card, you can try to mine with it, please post results if you have them.

[2GOOD]

Here is a pic from AMD's facebook page:

Say hello to the industry’s most powerful server graphics card, the AMD FirePro™ S10000. Find more details here: http://bit.ly/VY5ifc and check out this server setup with EIGHT S10000 graphics cards. That’s right, 16 GPUs!

[Frequency]

Here is a pic from AMD's facebook page:

Say hello to the industry’s most powerful server graphics card, the AMD FirePro™ S10000. Find more details here: http://bit.ly/VY5ifc and check out this server setup with EIGHT S10000 graphics cards. That’s right, 16 GPUs!

Damn looks nice, i would like to ask them to hang it on cgminer (orso) @ some pool for a week would be nice just to know what it would hash..it does look expencive and useless when ASIC hit but still very clean setup only two years late 

 

[goxed]

Would this be good for mining ?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6445/amd-announces-firepro-s10000

AMD FirePro S Series Specification Comparison
     AMD FirePro S10000    AMD FirePro S9000    AMD FirePro S7000
Stream Processors    2x1792    1792    1280
Core Clock    825MHz    900MHz    700MHz
Memory Clock    5.0GHz GDDR5    5.5GHz GDDR5    4.8GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width    2x384-bit    384-bit    256-bit
VRAM    2x3GB    6GB    4GB
Single Precision    5.91 TFLOPS    3.23 TFLOPS    2.4 TFLOPS
Double Precision    1.48 TFLOPS (1/4)    806 GFLOPS (1/4)    152 GFLOPS (1/16)
Transistor Count    2x4.31B    4.31B    2.8B
TDP    375W    225W    150W
Manufacturing Process    TSMC 28nm    TSMC 28nm    TSMC 28nm
Architecture    GCN    GCN    GCN
Warranty    3-Year    3-Year    3-Year
Launch Price    $3599    $2499    $1249'

Looks like it's a pair of 7950 strung together on a single board. It's waaaaay overpriced for mining. I guess these 7990 are more value for money.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600286767%20600364405&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%207990

[crazyates]

I guess these 7990 are more value for money.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600286767%20600364405&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%207990

Which really isn't saying much.

[goxed]

I guess these 7990 are more value for money.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600286767%20600364405&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%207990

Which really isn't saying much.

3599 vs 999

[Shotgun_WooWoo]

Weird, no crossfire?

[Gabi]

Crossfire is for gaming, it's useless for bitcoin mining 

[CoinHoarder]

Here is a pic from AMD's facebook page:

Say hello to the industry’s most powerful server graphics card, the AMD FirePro™ S10000. Find more details here: http://bit.ly/VY5ifc and check out this server setup with EIGHT S10000 graphics cards. That’s right, 16 GPUs!

Holy hell, that looks like such a cluster f**k. I wonder what the temps are on that thing.

[Shotgun_WooWoo]

Well it is a server case, not a PC one.  I imagine they are pretty fine with 27 fans it has in there.

Thanks for the tip on crossfire too.

[Gabi]

I would like to add that this is a SERVER card. It has tons of features useful for servers and their applications etcetcetc

But for mining all these features are happily useless. So a normal 7970 is much much cheaper and do the same.

(also, the next month ASIC should be released, wich will make GPU mining useless)

[Meatball]

AMD and Nvidia have a racket going with these 'Pro' cards.  They're usually the same GPU's as consumer chips with some extra memory, bandwidth or driver tweaks thrown in.

[crazyates]

Look up benchmarks in professional applications, tho. It's 5x the price, but >5x faster! And you get way better support.

[Gabi]

You don't need support for mining, if it doesn't work it's because the card is broken and you have to RMA it.

And it's not 5x faster in mining, it's impossible, it would have to use 5x power

[crazyates]

You don't need support for mining, if it doesn't work it's because the card is broken and you have to RMA it.

And it's not 5x faster in mining, it's impossible, it would have to use 5x power

I never said it's 5x faster for mining. I said it's 5x faster in professional applications, which is what this card is designed for.

[Shotgun_WooWoo]

I think that the difficulty will either go up or BTC will crash if ASICs flood the market.  Too much time and money has been invested in GPU rigs for them to just go out the window.  The speeds BFL are predicting are huge, but perhaps not market feasible.  There has to be some sort of threshold for miners; otherwise the next line of ASICs may hit 1000 GH per unit.  Maybe even a TH (basically 1,000GH).

I may be influenced by having ordered my first mining reg recently, and it does only have a 7970.  I'm just hoping to get a nice start in the mining industry.

[Meatball]

I think that the difficulty will either go up or BTC will crash if ASICs flood the market.  Too much time and money has been invested in GPU rigs for them to just go out the window.  The speeds BFL are predicting are huge, but perhaps not market feasible.  There has to be some sort of threshold for miners; otherwise the next line of ASICs may hit 1000 GH per unit.  Maybe even a TH (basically 1,000GH).

I may be influenced by having ordered my first mining reg recently, and it does only have a 7970.  I'm just hoping to get a nice start in the mining industry.

It's no different than when everyone who was CPU suddenly had to deal with the influx of GPU miners.  Bitcoin will not tank long term due to ASIC's flooding the market.  Miners will need to adapt to survive, like they have been for the last 4 years, or get left behind, it's as simple as that.  Anyone that's made a serious investment in GPU mining has long ago made up their mind whether to pre-order ASIC's and stay in the game, or sell off their farms.

Once again though, I wouldn't spend a dime on any new GPU mining hardware for the next few months until we see if ASIC's shake out or not.  Unless you're buying it for gaming purposes, you may very well just be throwing money out the window.

[Shotgun_WooWoo]

That's a good point.  I'll look into getting a nice single SC instead of mining my brand new GPU. 

Seeing as how you know so much about BTC mining (ie the change between CPU and GPU mining and how it affected the market), what tips would you give to a brand new miner?

[crazyates]

That's a good point.  I'll look into getting a nice single SC instead of mining my brand new GPU. 

Seeing as how you know so much about BTC mining (ie the change between CPU and GPU mining and how it affected the market), what tips would you give to a brand new miner?

#1: Don't panic. The market WILL go thru some rough patches here and there, esp when both the reward half AND the ASICs hit at about the same time. Uncertainty breeds fear, and fear breeds panic, and panic breeds sell. Just keep chugging along, and when the market stabilizes, you have all those coins to spend.