Cheapest GPU for monero mining

[sister1001]

I am looking to invest in some cheap GPUs to mine monero and others, what would be a reasoble option?

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[gotminer]

I am looking to invest in some cheap CPUs to mine monero and others, what would be a reasoble option?

Your title says GPU and the body of your message says CPU.

[sister1001]

I am looking to invest in some cheap CPUs to mine monero and others, what would be a reasoble option?

Your title says GPU and the body of your message says CPU.

Sorry, I meant GPUs. I am looking for cheap GPUs but if someone has a CPU idea I am listening too

[QuintLeo]

Nvidia 750 ti cards are pretty cheap, and will pull 250 hash or so on about 35 watts actual power draw.

 While the numbering is Kepler generation, they were actually Maxwell cards like the 9xx series.

[sister1001]

Nvidia 750 ti cards are pretty cheap, and will pull 250 hash or so on about 35 watts actual power draw.

 While the numbering is Kepler generation, they were actually Maxwell cards like the 9xx series.

Thanks, good advice there. Are you familiar with the R9 380s? A friend of mine says they do the job but are not too efficient??

[priviet]

cheap gpus for xmr? the complete AMD GCN 1.0/2.0 bouquet:

7850, 7870, 7870XT, 7950, 7970, 7990
R7 265, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 285 (gcn 3 but doesn't matter), R9 290, R9 290X
R7 370X, R9 380, R9 390, R9 390X

they do all over 420 Sol/s, the bigger ones even up to 900.

[sister1001]

cheap gpus for xmr? the complete AMD GCN 1.0/2.0 bouquet:

7850, 7870, 7870XT, 7950, 7970, 7990
R7 265, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 285 (gcn 3 but doesn't matter), R9 290, R9 290X
R7 370X, R9 380, R9 390, R9 390X

they do all over 420 Sol/s, the bigger ones even up to 900.

Great! I assume that all these have only 2 Gb?? I don´t know alot about the monero DAG size or the expected increases either. I could google it, but I like hearing from people on this forum.

[CryptoPlay]

Some of those cards I  the list were top AMD cards years ago.

None will be 2gb.

[priviet]

They are 4/3/2/1 GB. All of them can mine XMR because its not memory size bound in terms of the DAG in ETH.

[CryptoPlay]

They are 4/3/2/1 GB. All of them can mine XMR because its not memory size bound in terms of the DAG in ETH.

Can u find me a R9 290 4gb please. Or a 390...

[ikicha]

You can use RX 560, cheapest and low wattage
or using Amd HD Series
but you only get low hashrate i think

[rmh01]

They are 4/3/2/1 GB. All of them can mine XMR because its not memory size bound in terms of the DAG in ETH.

Can u find me a R9 290 4gb please. Or a 390...

Almost all 290 comes with 4Gb.

[QuintLeo]

cheap gpus for xmr? the complete AMD GCN 1.0/2.0 bouquet:

7850, 7870, 7870XT, 7950, 7970, 7990
R7 265, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 285 (gcn 3 but doesn't matter), R9 290, R9 290X
R7 370X, R9 380, R9 390, R9 390X

they do all over 420 Sol/s, the bigger ones even up to 900.

Great! I assume that all these have only 2 Gb?? I don´t know alot about the monero DAG size or the expected increases either. I could google it, but I like hearing from people on this forum.

 Only Ethhash algorithm coins (ETC, ETH, and such) use a DAG file.
 It is NOT AN ISSUE on anything else in cryptocoin mining.

 R9 290 are 4GB on the reference models, I think the only options were 4GB and perhaps 8GB on some aftermarket versions.
 Same on the R9 390.

 They're also still some of the highest hashrate ETH mining cards, though efficiency is not good due to their high power draw (even with an undervolt modded BIOS).

 7850 and 7870 do NOT do 300 sols/s or even 200. More like 150 on the 7870 and a bit less on the 7850.
 R9 280x as I recall was around 280-300 sol ballpark - DEFINITELY not 400 or more.
 Never tested my R9 290 cards on ZEC, but they should be quite a bit faster than the R9 280x - 400 sol ballpark would seem likely on those - but they make more on ETH mining than on ZEC mining.

 I doubt ANY of them can do 900 sol/s except PERHAPS the 7990 with it's DUAL GPUS ON ONE CARD (and those being the same GPU as on the 7970 or R9 290 or R9 390) - and that would be for the card, NOT for each GPU and do note that it counts as *2 GPUs* against driver limits.

[grigs]

You can use R9-380 2gb

I use Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 380 ITX COMPACT [11242-14-20G]
They do 630 sol/s (xmr)

12/27/17-21:42:37 - New job received from xmr-eu2.nanopool.org:14433
Speed: 2458 h/s, Total Shares: 7479, Rejected: 0, Mining time: 107:41
GPU0 t=51C fan=100%, GPU1 t=52C fan=100%, GPU2 t=58C fan=100%, GPU3 t=51C fan=10
0%

[Branko]

cheap gpus for xmr? the complete AMD GCN 1.0/2.0 bouquet:

7850, 7870, 7870XT, 7950, 7970, 7990
R7 265, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 285 (gcn 3 but doesn't matter), R9 290, R9 290X
R7 370X, R9 380, R9 390, R9 390X

they do all over 420 Sol/s, the bigger ones even up to 900.

Great! I assume that all these have only 2 Gb?? I don´t know alot about the monero DAG size or the expected increases either. I could google it, but I like hearing from people on this forum.

 Only Equihash algorithm coins (ETC, ETH, and such) use a DAG file.
 It is NOT AN ISSUE on anything else in cryptocoin mining.

 R9 290 are 4GB on the reference models, I think the only options were 4GB and perhaps 8GB on some aftermarket versions.
 Same on the R9 390.

 They're also still some of the highest hashrate ETH mining cards, though efficiency is not good due to their high power draw (even with an undervolt modded BIOS).

 7850 and 7870 do NOT do 300 sols/s or even 200. More like 150 on the 7870 and a bit less on the 7850.
 R9 280x as I recall was around 280-300 sol ballpark - DEFINITELY not 400 or more.
 Never tested my R9 290 cards on ZEC, but they should be quite a bit faster than the R9 280x - 400 sol ballpark would seem likely on those - but they make more on ETH mining than on ZEC mining.

 I doubt ANY of them can do 900 sol/s except PERHAPS the 7990 with it's DUAL GPUS ON ONE CARD (and those being the same GPU as on the 7970 or R9 290 or R9 390) - and that would be for the card, NOT for each GPU and do note that it counts as *2 GPUs* against driver limits.

1. Ethereum and its clones/forks/whatever use Ethash algorithm, not equihash
2. sols/s results mean youre now talking about equihash, but original poster asked about monero which uses cryptonight algo, not equihash
3. of course, priviet stated sol/s, but judging by his numbers, its probably typo and he meant H/s, which is proper for cryptonight (and I can
confirm his numbers, even very cheap second hand 7850 1GB version has more than 400 H/s which is very good result for the money)

[QuintLeo]

Yeah, I missed the "xmr" comment when they started talking sol/s - I always automatically think Equihash when someone starts talking sol/s 'cause that's an Equihash-specific terminology.

The "equihash" part was mistype that I corrected - apparently right after you noticed it.

 I have no idea what any GPU I have does on Cryptonight except my 750 ti cards, my single Vega56, and my GTX 950/960 cards (that would rarely switch to Cryptonight when I was running them on Nicehash but USUALLY were on other stuff).

[sister1001]

cheap gpus for xmr? the complete AMD GCN 1.0/2.0 bouquet:

7850, 7870, 7870XT, 7950, 7970, 7990
R7 265, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 285 (gcn 3 but doesn't matter), R9 290, R9 290X
R7 370X, R9 380, R9 390, R9 390X

they do all over 420 Sol/s, the bigger ones even up to 900.

Great! I assume that all these have only 2 Gb?? I don´t know alot about the monero DAG size or the expected increases either. I could google it, but I like hearing from people on this forum.

 Only Equihash algorithm coins (ETC, ETH, and such) use a DAG file.
 It is NOT AN ISSUE on anything else in cryptocoin mining.

 R9 290 are 4GB on the reference models, I think the only options were 4GB and perhaps 8GB on some aftermarket versions.
 Same on the R9 390.

 They're also still some of the highest hashrate ETH mining cards, though efficiency is not good due to their high power draw (even with an undervolt modded BIOS).

 7850 and 7870 do NOT do 300 sols/s or even 200. More like 150 on the 7870 and a bit less on the 7850.
 R9 280x as I recall was around 280-300 sol ballpark - DEFINITELY not 400 or more.
 Never tested my R9 290 cards on ZEC, but they should be quite a bit faster than the R9 280x - 400 sol ballpark would seem likely on those - but they make more on ETH mining than on ZEC mining.

 I doubt ANY of them can do 900 sol/s except PERHAPS the 7990 with it's DUAL GPUS ON ONE CARD (and those being the same GPU as on the 7970 or R9 290 or R9 390) - and that would be for the card, NOT for each GPU and do note that it counts as *2 GPUs* against driver limits.

1. Ethereum and its clones/forks/whatever use Ethash algorithm, not equihash
2. sols/s results mean youre now talking about equihash, but original poster asked about monero which uses cryptonight algo, not equihash
3. of course, priviet stated sol/s, but judging by his numbers, its probably typo and he meant H/s, which is proper for cryptonight (and I can
confirm his numbers, even very cheap second hand 7850 1GB version has more than 400 H/s which is very good result for the money)

Yes, I would be interested in Cryponight, particularly for monero and some others out there. I want low noise and low power mining, even if Ethereum could be more profitable from time to time. So stats in "sols" are probably not what I am looking for.

[Branko]

Yes, I would be interested in Cryponight, particularly for monero and some others out there. I want low noise and low power mining, even if Ethereum could be more profitable from time to time. So stats in "sols" are probably not what I am looking for.

RX560s are very good imho, close to 500 H/S with my 4GB models (both hynix and micron), but some people claim
more than 500 with 2GB elpida RX560s, that would probably be ideal

My estimate is about 30W for 4GB models, very quiet

[last7minutes]

I am looking to invest in some cheap GPUs to mine monero and others, what would be a reasoble option?

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I am on myself use GTX 1050 ti for mining Monero. In my experience it has a quite good results. I don’t really remember how much was the cost of mining machine when I bought it. Something about 900EUR.

[sister1001]

Yes, I would be interested in Cryponight, particularly for monero and some others out there. I want low noise and low power mining, even if Ethereum could be more profitable from time to time. So stats in "sols" are probably not what I am looking for.

RX560s are very good imho, close to 500 H/S with my 4GB models (both hynix and micron), but some people claim
more than 500 with 2GB elpida RX560s, that would probably be ideal

My estimate is about 30W for 4GB models, very quiet

I will definitely look into these. The price is quite interesting, even with my mid to high power price I may get some profit. The good thing is that the heat is perfect in winter he he