What are the best replacement for RX 480 / 470s for Ether Mining?

[QuintLeo]

Read here thats easy to mix AMD and Nvidia Cards on Win10. Out of curiosity the will to expand how it is possible to mix the drivers ? 

 Win 7 and Win 10 can automatically handle the mixed drivers - though you have to manually install them if you want mining-optimised driver versions, and both have a very bad habit of auto-updating you to the latest DON'T WORK FOR BEANS ON MINING drivers if you don't get autoupdate disabled.

 I suspect M$ been working on that for a while because they saw the "mixed GPU" capabilities of DX12 comming way ahead of time and wanted to be ready for when DX12 hit "production" release.

[CryptoSocial]

Better in which way? The hashrates must be a way lower.
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I am using stock settings, 1060s @ ~18MH/s, 480 8GB @ ~24MH/s, 480 4GB ~21MH/s

Ended up mixing 1060s and 480s to accommodate 5 cards each on four rigs 750 Watts supplies.

2 x 1060 + 3 x 480 in two rigs and 3 x 480 + 2 x 1060 in other two.

Comparing the power consumption, card cost and other factors, I would not mind losing 3 MH/s per card over 4 GB 480s for a cooler, power efficient and far more stable system.

[umine]

Thinking GTX1070 is the best choise now, 33 Mh/s on Ethash with 140-150 Wattage, and for other algos it's very good hashrate

[QuintLeo]

GTX 1070 is a very flexable card that is good at almost all GPU mineable algos.

 Down side is the cost - before the recent shortage-induced GOUGE pricing issues, it was around 2x the cost of the RX 470/480/570/580 (depending on the specific models, sometimes a HAIR over usually a little under) which made it not even close on a hash/$ basis for many coins, specifically including ETH.

 Up side - no worries about having to mod or flash the BIOS to achieve high hashrates, and NVidia drivers TEND to have fewer just totally garbage versions than AMD drivers do.

 At pricing for most of the last month, it became VERY competative to superior to the RX cards unless you could sneak in a VERY low cost deal on an RX card - and the 1070 price started climbing TOO as a result of the shortage of RX cards and their crazy-high pricing.


 We might be seeing the start of the end of that though, with the "mining specific" cards starting to show up in actual quantities AND with the major drop in profitability of MOST gpu mined coins the last 3 weeks or so.

[Ismay]

Thinking GTX1070 is the best choise now, 33 Mh/s on Ethash with 140-150 Wattage, and for other algos it's very good hashrate

That is the reason the price of 1070 is so high now.

[WarrenP]

570/580

That Troll

You need to wait about 2-3 weeks to be again in stock.
1060 has lower hashes, 23-24MH/s I think look at benchmarks, but better power consumption.

The problem I have with the 1060s I bought is that some have Hynix RAM and others have Samsung RAM.
Samsung RAM 1060s I am getting 23 MH/s at about 65 - 75Watt per card.
Hynix RAM 1060s I can only get up to 18/19MH/s at like 80Watt per card.

And you have no idea which version of RAM you are going to get.

[Jdope]

570/580

That Troll

You need to wait about 2-3 weeks to be again in stock.
1060 has lower hashes, 23-24MH/s I think look at benchmarks, but better power consumption.

The problem I have with the 1060s I bought is that some have Hynix RAM and others have Samsung RAM.
Samsung RAM 1060s I am getting 23 MH/s at about 65 - 75Watt per card.
Hynix RAM 1060s I can only get up to 18/19MH/s at like 80Watt per card.

And you have no idea which version of RAM you are going to get.

Same thing happens with almost every card, micron memory rx 470s had a maximum of 25mhs with me, while samsung ram ones could go up to 30mhs, its just a risk that you're going to take and you can always send it back to the shop if they support that

[mark.goodbye]

For me best soultion is 1060 6gb, it has the best payout period at this moment

[miningchamp93]

I have a GTX 1080 Gigabyte Waterforce.

Using msi afterburner.

Power limit 68% Core clock -400 (effective base clock 1620Mhz) Memory clock +985 (effective speed of 5593Mhz)

Stays at 46celcius

Using Claymore miner and ethereum I'm getting 26-27Mh/s.

Try the above settings but start with your memory clock at 400 and work your way up, watch your hashrate while you are doing this.

I say this because, as an example, you can overclock the ram to +800 but it will perform worse than at +400.

For some reason when I go above 985 on the mem power usage drops and the card goes to around 21Mh/s.

Hope this helps.

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