Tesla p40 GPU mining

[samwu_525]

  so my friend gave me this amazing 9k dollar Tesla P40 GPU (which I worked my butt off trying to not get it to overheat because it doesnt have a fan on it) and I decided to put it to the ultimate test by mining bitcoins using it.
  welp turns out that it is not that impressive for a graphics card that expensive. It mines around 60 to 65 Megahash using the Lyra2REv2 algorithm. Similar to a 1080ti.
  https://imgur.com/QL8RnS1

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[DigitalLemming]

Wow, will take awhile to pay itself off 

[hanz]

My guess is this belongs in the Altcoins section.

[jmigdlc99]

Nice card. But what is a nvidia tesla for anyway? How is the power consumption?

Sadly the wiser option may be to sell that at $9000 and just buy a AMD RX VEGA 56 at only $500. The VEGA will even earn more (based on whattomine it currently earns $5+ a day mining electroneum) and it only uses 130 watts .

[samwu_525]

Nice card. But what is a nvidia tesla for anyway? How is the power consumption?

Sadly the wiser option may be to sell that at $9000 and just buy a AMD RX VEGA 56 at only $500. The VEGA will even earn more (based on whattomine it currently earns $5+ a day mining electroneum) and it only uses 130 watts .

It's mainly for doing research and calculations

[wacko]

Well Tesla P40 is a glorified Titan XP (3840 cuda Pascal cores). Though it's slower than titan in mining due to the lower clocks, and most likely slower than 1080 Ti as well. That thing still has 250W TDP, so gotta be careful with it considering how it's passively cooled.

[QuintLeo]

Where the Tesla shines vs NVidia "consumer" cards is in Double Precision Floating Point operations - this specifically includes the current-generation Titans, not just the GTX 10xx series.
Cryptocoin usage is a waste of the card, as cryptocoin is all Integer operations.

They're intended for usage in specific server cases with a lot of airflow through the case - thus the "no fan" passive cooling setup.
A lot of AMD workstation-specific cards in the FirePro line are set up the same way.

Try running it on the BOINC Milkyway project for Gridcoin earnings sometime - it SHOULD blow away the R9 280x / HD 7970 cards that most of THOSE folks use in their "high performance machines" for similar reasons (the Tahiti GPU was AMD's highest performing "consumer" DP FP chip).

[butka]

Where the Tesla shines vs NVidia "consumer" cards is in Double Precision Floating Point operations - this specifically includes the current-generation Titans, not just the GTX 10xx series.

This is exactly true. If you don't need Double Precision operations, there is no point wasting money on this graphic card.

They're intended for usage in specific server cases with a lot of airflow through the case - thus the "no fan" passive cooling setup.

A friend of mine did the error of purchasing Tesla K20 without a built in cooler and without a dedicated server case. It was quickly overheating, even with an external cooler blowing air close to it.

Overall, not a good card for mining.