@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.
Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.
It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin
Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?
Yes, I think so. Once the price is higher then they can sell more cards and creat new cards with high technology to meet miners' demands and Therefore They will get double profits from boosting coin price and selling their cards. That's really a smart strategy .
make a loop, of course it is a smart strategy.
Do you have any numbers about GPU sold for mining in a year?
Because somewhere else (I do not really remember where) someone claimed that the mining market for AMD/Nvidia is so little compared to the gaming/clusters market that they do not really care about it. Personally I agree with this point of view, but I do not have any number.
with the mining expansion of the last year the numbers are huge.
last time I checked I figured 100,000 rx 480's and that was back in the late winter.
look at eth alone
https://etherchain.org/ 15th
so 1 rx 480 = 25-30 mh
say 35 = 1000 mh or 1 gh
3500 = 1 th
52,500 = 15th
next xmr
http://moneroblocks.info/55.6 Mh/s was is an rx 480 about 600 h
for easy math
network 60mh
10 rx 480's = 6000h
100 rx 480's = 60,000h
1,000 rx 480's = 600,000h
10,000 rx 480's = 6,000,000h
100,000 rx 480's = 60,000,000h
so eth and xmr add to more then 150,000 rx 480's
lets say rig size averages to 4 not six
those two coins are close to 40,000 rigs
so
40,000 cpus
40,000 psus
40,000 ram sticks
more coins then the two above. there is a lot of big money from a lot of non- asic players
150,000 gpus = 30 million at 200 each
If an 8gb coin took off right now 8gb card = hot
