GTX 1050ti for Etherum Mining

[teamo]

Hi, I am planning to buy a 6 x gtx 1050ti for mining etherum,

is it still profitable??

[Ambros]

This kind of topics are damn useless and I hope it will be deleted ASAP.

Anyway, once again, it depends on your electricity prices.

Those GPU are basically rebranded 750ti, they have very tiny power consumptions, but also shitty hashrates.
They do not have the best efficiency, which is with 1070 currently

[Emoclaw]

This kind of topics are damn useless and I hope it will be deleted ASAP.

Anyway, once again, it depends on your electricity prices.

Those GPU are basically rebranded 750ti, they have very tiny power consumptions, but also shitty hashrates.
They do not have the best efficiency, which is with 1070 currently

No. The 750 ti is NOWHERE near the 1050 ti. Aside from being completely different architectures on an entirely new manufacturing node (16nm vs 28), the 1050 ti is almost twice as fast as a 750 ti in many cases.
Admittedly, it's pretty shit. each one gives only about 11MH/s in Ethereum Mining at stock settings.

6 of them at $160, 40W each, assuming $0.10 electricity would generate $3 daily at current diff. ROI in 320+ days. Definitely not worth it in my opinion.

[Vann]

1050 Ti - ~14 MH/s on ETH and ~185 H/s on ZEC @ ~70W.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3W1YAavSE&feature=youtu.be&t=2938

https://youtu.be/0lt8Ohv-SnE?t=424

As far as profitability, check whattomine.com

[Mike011]

14,2 Mh/s confirmed here.

[CryptBoy:)]

This kind of topics are damn useless and I hope it will be deleted ASAP.

Anyway, once again, it depends on your electricity prices.

Those GPU are basically rebranded 750ti, they have very tiny power consumptions, but also shitty hashrates.
They do not have the best efficiency, which is with 1070 currently

Nope 1050ti is new GPU where 750ti Is older and based on Maxwell GPU's

[miningbabapk]

1050ti is good for zcash mining for low budget miner.

[carlisle1]

1050ti is good for zcash mining for low budget miner.

do you have any inputs regarding to hash of this gpu? I'm not sure why OP will still proceed for this device even there's already some much better
rig for long term goal its best to save some money or use your money inside trading and try to earn before trying to mine coins as the difficulty
is really giving miners a headache.

[Cereberus]

It is not bad and it can be used to dual mine to make almost 0.80 USD daily as I am doing with it right now. I am mining ETC together with DCR as you can see in the picture below. Still you need about 1000 USD or just a bit more in order to build such rig. I am using a Gigabyte low profile which is single fan and costs cheaper yet the hashrate as you can see is to the max for this card with some overclocking tweak.

Return is 4.5 USD daily or about 135 USD, so taking apart electricity which this consume very little, like 25 USD a month, it is 110 USD net profit and you ROI within 10 months if difficulty stays the same or fall down (rarely happens).

[The_Don]

13-14 mhs in my 1050 ti single fan

[DRVX]

I see this stuff is new and powerful. The video card has 6 Gb of memory and for mining it will be great. The other question is price — it has just appeared on the market and can be expensive. Meanwhile, the reviews about GTX 1050ti  I have read are positive.

[RealSwissMiner]

The efficiency (power usage/computing power) is just not that nice for the 1050 Ti. The higher end cards have the best spot when it comes to efficiency with the GTX 1070 probably being the best all-rounder.

I also keep a 1050 Ti as a backup card - it stays cool, doesn't consume much and easy to OC but nothing compared to a 1070/1080.

[QuintLeo]

Very poor efficiency on ZEC anyway - can't even manage 3.0 no matter WHAT you try to tune on them, usually more like 2.5-2.7 ballpark.

Can't set TDP to less than 70% on the EVGA models at all - they REFUSE the setting - but efficiency doesn't seem to get measurably better between 80% and 70% anyway, and BARELY changes from 90% to 70%.

On a hash/$ basis the 1050 ti is a little worse than what the big cards were at before the "shortage gouge pricing" hit, and the 1050 *IS* in the same ballpark on hash/$ but for ZEC they are NOT even close on efficiency.

On the PLUS side, most of these cards don't need PCI-E power (lets you cram a LOT of them on a small power supply) and they're widely AVAILABLE at MSRP or less.

[QuintLeo]

1050ti is good for zcash mining for low budget miner.

 Not really, 1050 will almost match the hashrate, WILL more-or-less match the poor efficiency, and is commonly 60-65% of the cost giving around 50% better hash/$.


 Cooling on the single-fan EVGA cards I have is OK, but nothing special - definitely not good enough to cram them on a motherboard with no spacing and let them stay cool, but no worse than non-blower bigger cards.

 13.3 Mhash/sec on my EVGA single fan model at 52.5 watt TDP (lowest it will LET me set it) with +500 memory, pretty much the same (LESS than 1% change) at 75 with same memory setting (but the card is only using 62-63 watts at that setting).
 Core clock seems to have ZERO effect when I bump it up as far as I can with stability (no shock on THIS algorithm).
 
 If high-end Polaris cards could be found at SANE pricing, this would be "no competition", but under the current conditions it's .... tolerable, sorta ... on a hash/$ basis.

 Up side - the cards I bought can be used to replace my older and even WORSE efficiency GTX 950 cards - and most 1050 or 1050 ti models don't need a PCI-E power connector, which coupled to the low power requirement lets you hang a LOT of them on a single PS on something like the B250 Mining Expert motherboard.