Most Efficient GPU for Mining

[leowonderful]

Have the AMD Vega cards not a better Hashrate and a lower power as NVIDIA and the other AMD Rx cards?

They definitely aren't a better value than Polaris/Pascal in most cases. They might, not sure about most algorithms, but most people I know are currently mining XMR with them and are doing pretty well. Biggest issue I have for them was that they were sold much above MSRP, prices are going down again making these possibly a decent buy.

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[F3arl3ss]

Does anyone have a computer setup with 6 1070s (motherboard, hard drive, ram, cpu)?

[Ryuh]

Does anyone have a computer setup with 6 1070s (motherboard, hard drive, ram, cpu)?

I have couple of these:

MB: Gigabyte H110-D3A
CPU: Intel Celeron G3930
RAM: Kingston HyperX  4GB ddr4
SSD: The cheapes 120GB i can get.
PSU: Raidmax Cobra 1200W Gold

Works great!

[ivakar]

In terms of efficiency, that is hashrate per kilowatt-hour, which GPU is the best?
Has anyone tried the new Radeon RX Vega 64?


Haven't done any mining but I might invest some on a mining rig although I might mine an altcoin and not bitcoin.

It depend on which algo, but I will vote for NVidia GTX1080ti
Cause after tweaking it is powerfill and cold monster.
Though I do not have any AMD card so it hard to judge them for me

[QuintLeo]

Nvidia is the most preferred

 There are at least 3.5 million GPUs mining ETH alone - the large majority of those are AMD.

 ALL OTHER COINS COMBINED don't manage 2 million GPUs.

 NVidia is the most prefered on many coins, but not all and not by miners overall - there is a reason RX-series card prices are still majorly inflated while NVidia card prices are pretty much right back down to where they were 6 months ago.


 XMR is the ONLY place the Vega stands out as a superior option per all of the info I have seen about it to date - Vega is NOT competative on hash/$ or hash/watt on anything else, usually failing on BOTH when mining anything else.


 1080 ti is very close on both hash/$ and hash/watt when you compare complete systems vs the 1070 ti, but it falls just a hair short in ZCash/ZEN/ZCL mining - difference is only a percent or two on efficiency and less than 5% on cost/hash but the 1070 ti DOES win.
 The "fewer cards to deal with" issue though might make it a "better option" for some folks anyway, and it's close enough it doesn't make sense to shut down existing systems using it.
 It's also close enough that cards going on sale or ANY noticeable price move out of NVidia could change it.

 At this point I would not bother with the 1070 or 1080 - they're noticeably behind the curve - unless the card is in an existing system.

[wxxyz]

In terms of efficiency, that is hashrate per kilowatt-hour, which GPU is the best?

I assume you're asking this question because you have expensive power?

Looks like most people like the 1080 Ti, and it is a strong hasher, but it depends.... on:

1. What algorithm are you going to mine? I only mine equihash, so that's all I can comment on right now. If you want to mine cryptonight etc, then disregard
On Equihash, a 1080 Ti can get 700-800 Sol/s, with the most efficient settings getting around 725 sol/s and using 250 watts.
A 1070 Ti can get 525-650 Sol/s, with the most efficient settings getting around 570 sol/s using 170 watts.

At those speeds, it comes down to the power cost usage over a month being only a few kW hours difference.

2. Purchase cost of the GPU - Some cards that are more efficient are so much more expensive to buy that you'd have to mine for 2 years in order to be at the same cost point so it just might not be worth looking for efficiency

3. Electricity cost - The more your electricity cost is, the quicker you can pay off paying more up front for a card in order to save power in the long run

Source: http://miningcharts.com/gpu-mining-comparison-chart/best-price-and-power-usage/
This comparison chart calculates, and visually shows you how much power you're saving, and how long it takes to make up the difference.

What I THINK makes the most difference is that this chart puts it into terms that make sense - it calculates power use and up-front cost per 100 hashes/sec so you can actually compare apples to apples!

[manji]

Does anyone have a computer setup with 6 1070s (motherboard, hard drive, ram, cpu)?

1 year ago, I build Rig using these parts :
 . Motherboard Asrock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150
.RAM DDR3 Corsair 8 GB
.SSD 120 GB Samsung
.PSU 1x750W CX and 1x 750W CS corsair
.USB Riser 6pin

So far so good.

[QuintLeo]

In terms of efficiency, that is hashrate per kilowatt-hour, which GPU is the best?

I assume you're asking this question because you have expensive power?

Looks like most people like the 1080 Ti, and it is a strong hasher, but it depends.... on:

1. What algorithm are you going to mine? I only mine equihash, so that's all I can comment on right now. If you want to mine cryptonight etc, then disregard
On Equihash, a 1080 Ti can get 700-800 Sol/s, with the most efficient settings getting around 725 sol/s and using 250 watts.
A 1070 Ti can get 525-650 Sol/s, with the most efficient settings getting around 570 sol/s using 170 watts.

 None of that is even CLOSE to the most efficient settings for those cards on equihash.

 1080 ti running at 150 watts will pull 620 sols, for about 4.1 sols/watt vs YOUR less than 3.0 figure.
 1070 ti running at 106 watts will pull around 460 sol/s for over 4.4 sols/watt.
 *SOME* but not all 1080 models can match that 1070 ti efficiency, but they usually want a little more power to run efficiently and end up at slightly lower efficiency as a result - but STILL well over 4.0 sol/watt at their most efficient.
 Those are both using EWBF and are long-term averages, NOT cherry-picked "one reading" peak numbers.

 I'd have to SEE 650 sol/s out of ANY 1070 ti to believe it (one time peak readings do NOT count), even if you're running DTSM or Bminer vs my normal use of EWBF (both of those seem to offer a LITTLE more hashrate at high power settings, same to a hair less at efficient settings).

 The 1080 ti is a "higher density" card than the 1070 ti, but it's a little LESS efficient (even after factoring in "system power draw per card" for both).
 It's pretty close either way though when figuring on a per-rig basis.

[Miningtry]

Did someone tested bitmain Deep Learning Accelerating Card SC1 600$ ai. card with 16/32 GB?
Cant finde how much hash this card can really do.

[Wotan Wipeout]

QuintLeo is right!

1070ti !

[QuintLeo]

Did someone tested bitmain Deep Learning Accelerating Card SC1 600$ ai. card with 16/32 GB?
Cant finde how much hash this card can really do.

 Does it even exist for sale yet, and does it do integer operations at all?
 If it's like the "tensor" cores intended for AI usage on the Titan V, it's going not going to be mineable AT ALL on.

 As a minimum, it probably needs MINING SOFTWARE written for it, as I'm pretty sure it doesn't support OpenCL.

[MistGold]

Those calculations are made for specific algos and valued on RoI with same budged i've counting Price of GPU in my region energy and HashRate

My gpus for fallowing algos:

Equilhash Msi Gaming x 1080
NeoScrypt: gtx 1050
CryptoNight Rx Vega 64/56(they are nearly same in prices and all rest)
Nist5: Msi Gaming x 1080

Imo 1080 ti are bad its just very very overpaid

[QuintLeo]

I have yet to see an 1080 do better than MATCH the 1070 ti on hashrate when both are mining at "max efficiency" - since the 1080 normally sells at a PREMIUM of about 10% to 1070 ti pricing, there is NO WAY the 1080 is "most efficient".

1080 ti when you factor in "total system costs" doesn't price out all that bad per hash vs the 1070/1070ti/1080 - they're ALL very close - but it does lose a little even at the total system level on efficiency vs the 1070 ti and good 1080 models.

It's HARD to beat 460 hash on 106 watts for the card and typically around 10 watts of "system" draw per card from a 6 card riser system.

[DigitalLemming]

1080ti currently. They do suck a lot of power though but they do a lot of work to make up for it.

[wendybean]

It totally depend on what you want to mine. There are n number of GPU’s mining, which cannot even accumulate the total cost if added all alt coins together. You can check NVidia as it is most preferred and usually every coin can be mined through it.

[blockchange88]

wrong section

how is this the wrong section? this is the altcoin mining section... hence OP can ask qs regarding GPUs here. bruh...

[klintistwood]

What about the P104-100 models ? Some people here have started buying them and are getting pretty impressive hash rates.

[ConorMcgregor]

In terms of efficiency, that is hashrate per kilowatt-hour, which GPU is the best?
Has anyone tried the new Radeon RX Vega 64?


Haven't done any mining but I might invest some on a mining rig although I might mine an altcoin and not bitcoin.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is the most recent GPU from AMD that just commands mining. Stock, it can mine Ethereum at 33 MH/s utilizing around 200 watts however with a touch of tweaking, the hash rate can be as high as 41 MH/s utilizing as meager as 135 watts! This card is just a creature. They are taking off the racks so ensure you get yours when you can.

[Mike011]

1070Ti can get like 4.3 Sol/W.

on 1080 ti i am getting anywhere from 4.3 to 4.9.

[Pekine]

What about the P104-100 models ? Some people here have started buying them and are getting pretty impressive hash rates.

I did some research on these and they were getting them to 40+ Mh/s with 180 watt. So that would be the most efficient one. I only didn't find where to buy them, nor a price for them.