RX580 vs 1070 - same performance / big price difference

[androstan1234]

Buy rx570 4gb for $220 on sale.  $250 at most.  Thank me later.

But prob just don't buy gpus.

[starmax]

I have 2 ETH rigs, one with 6x1070s, one with 6xRx570s.  All my 1070s are Nvidia branded FE and set to power target = 65% with NvidiaInspector. All hash at 32.5-33 Mh/s and consume 99-100 watts.  My Rx570s are a mix of Asus and MSI cards, all are bios modded.  The Asus cards consume 92-94 watts, MSI cards range from 95-105 watts and all 6 hash at 29.0 Mh/s.  So for me Nvidia cards are more efficient hash/watt, but cost a lot more (now) than AMD cards.  Nvidia cards are very easy to tune, AMD cards CAN be easy (find a good bios online and flash it) or a pain (roll your own bios mod and spend hours tweaking).  For my ASUS cards, I found a great BIOS on Anorak, flashed it and I was off and running.  My MSI cards didn't like any of the straps I tried, so spent a lot of time trying to find an optimal setting.  Also have 3 of the exact same MSI cards with the exact same bios, same memory, etc, and they use 95w, 99w, 105w.

[madnessteat]

I would use GTX 1070. I got one of these working. NVIDIA has more algorithms for mining on video cards. So GTX is my choice. I apologize for my English.

[Ryzen2700x]

What about Lyra2z? I see more and more coins are coming out with this algo and while profits are down ECO algos become more important, and AMD has clear advantage on Lyra2z(can any1 explain me why?).

[adaseb]

The reason why it hashes the same but costs more is because the Nvidia is more optimized for other algos like ZEC.

Another reason is because it's always in demand with gamers because they usually prefer Nvidia over AMD. Something like 80% prefer Nvidia over AMD.

Same reason why people prefer Intel over AMD for CPUs and same reason people prefer an IPhone rather than a Android phone.

[aundroid]

nvidia cards have a higher hashrate on way more algirithms.
e.g. they perform best with equihash.
So if you can find cheap gtx1070 I would take them!