Is RTX 3070 amongst the best efficiency GPU to mine ETH?

[Commie]

This is just one of the choices. I prefer low and medium level GPUs. With top GPUs we are getting problems with PSU and cooling. And if 1 rig is down - it becomes a big problem. But on the other hand - saving space and top GPUs for a long time. Everyone choose the way that is better for him.

Yeah and that's exactly why I didn't want to derail this thread by further evaluating my reasons, just briefly mentioned them  We're talking about power efficiency here, after all.

[batsonxl]

I prefer cards in middle wattage consumption like 100-200watts.

[rdluffy]

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

Maybe I didn't explain well Commie, sorry

I have 3080 too, making 99Mhs with 240w on the wall, it's a beast for sure, but my point is: 3080s are hotter than 3060ti and 3070, the memory on 3080s and even 3090s are hard to keep cool
In this thread you can check: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5287329.0
A lot of people have problems with hashrate drop

While with 3060ti and 3070 there's no such problems, the point on my post:

doesn't get too hot like 3080s

I'm just talking about 3080 heat

And I continue to recommend 3060ti and 3070, easier to find, easier to deal with power, less PSU cables, no hashrate drop, both are great to make a 6 card rig

But of course I like 3080, 100Mhs is awesome in one card

[Commie]

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

Maybe I didn't explain well Commie, sorry

I have 3080 too, making 99Mhs with 240w on the wall, it's a beast for sure, but my point is: 3080s are hotter than 3060ti and 3070, the memory on 3080s and even 3090s are hard to keep cool
In this thread you can check: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5287329.0
A lot of people have problems with hashrate drop

Agreed, heat is an issue. Big one. My cards run at 96-98C mem junction temps (after thermal pads change). That's high, but then I live in tropics, no choice. Maybe I will go for immersion cooling once I have 20-30 of them, but it might take a while LOL

[Didz]

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage!

A youtuber claimed that GPU can still be purchased at good price on best buy somehow and there is another youtuber (lady) that but 12x RTX3070 through best buy too, I don't know how they pull the stunt or trick, where is philipma? I'm guessing I can get an answer from you about this

Apparently people are camping in front of Micro Center shops in the US to have the chance to buy one new GPU model. I would be really surprised that you can buy 12x RTX3070 on Best Buy plus if I am not wrong, when you shop online on Best Buy you have a limit of number of GPU you can buy so it would be astonishing that you can buy 12x RTX3070 in a Best Buy shop.  

[Didz]

Thank you everyone for your participation in my topic. I feel much more reassured now to slowly buy my new mining rig with RTX 3070 GPUs. This forum rocks!!!

[philipma1957]

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage!

A youtuber claimed that GPU can still be purchased at good price on best buy somehow and there is another youtuber (lady) that but 12x RTX3070 through best buy too, I don't know how they pull the stunt or trick, where is philipma? I'm guessing I can get an answer from you about this

Apparently people are camping in front of Micro Center shops in the US to have the chance to buy one new GPU model. I would be really surprised that you can buy 12x RTX3070 on Best Buy plus if I am not wrong, when you shop online on Best Buy you have a limit of number of GPU you can buy so it would be astonishing that you can buy 12x RTX3070 in a Best Buy shop.  

Well if his cousin or brother or dear friend works for Best Buy it can be done.

I manage to fight my way past the Best Buy bots and get a 3090 for 1850 usd .  Was supposed to come to the store on a Saturday .  Sat morning when due they said we are sorry  we are canceling your order.

Having had people in my family work for Best Buy I know what clerks do at stores.  When a monster hot item come in they call a friend and say I will bring the item out and put it on a display shelf you grab it and go pay for it.

And they get a 3300 ebay prices 3090 for 1850.

I went to Best Buy's blogs and complained. They offered me a 50 dollar gift card. I said the story above and they offered me a 100 dollar gift card.

So I am pretty sure  that the guy claiming to get 12 crds does it like I describe.


Or he has 50 bots doing it for him.  What ever.

My position on Best Buy is they owe me about 3300-1850 = 1450- 100 = 1350  in moral court.

[Ceyflix-Rez]

If you can get your hands on RTX 3060ti they make sense more than RTX3070 because their performance is the same but 3060ti use less power and more cooler when working, try staying in between most powerful cards and the weak cards if you don't want to deal with heats

[Hotdog Vendor]

I got 1x Gigabye Gaming OC 3070 runs 62.88mh/s at 124w, then 2x Gigabyte Aorus 3070 one runs 63mh/s at 121w and the other runs 62.9mh/s at 124w in Pheonixminer.
All up in old as 1366 mobo and first gen I7 cpu (ie not power efficent) runs 490w from wall.

The Gaming OC runs so cool thou like 43-44c just with autofan speed, the Aorus one I have to put to 65% and other to 67% fan speed just to keep them at 49-50c.
All 3 cards really quite compared to some thou.

I heard that I should avoid Gigabyte GPUs, it seems you don't have any issues with them?

Nah no problems at all, plus the 2x Aorus i got 4yr warranty on, the GamingOC  i got 2nd hand off mate so was too late to claim the 4yr.
Today was fairly hot so the Gaming OC got to 50c and the others to 52c. Turned the fans up on the 2x Aorus just for 1/2 the day.

[gathermind]

Hello,

    I get chance at low price to buy one display card.
1) 3060Ti with Price USD 900
2) 3060 with Price USD 680

As I know 3060Ti about 60Mh/s while 3060 only 48Mh/s
Which one should I/you would buy?

Is nVidia going to nerf 3060 hashrate?  I am nervous...

[Didz]

If you can get your hands on RTX 3060ti they make sense more than RTX3070 because their performance is the same but 3060ti use less power and more cooler when working, try staying in between most powerful cards and the weak cards if you don't want to deal with heats

Thank you Ceyflix-Rez. I have bought a commercial Mitsubishi AC so heat it's not a problem but less heat means less AC needed so it's good to save money on electricity cost!

[swogerino]

Hello,

    I get chance at low price to buy one display card.
1) 3060Ti with Price USD 900
2) 3060 with Price USD 680

As I know 3060Ti about 60Mh/s while 3060 only 48Mh/s
Which one should I/you would buy?

Is nVidia going to nerf 3060 hashrate?  I am nervous...

I think Nvidia have said that they will cut in half their mining efficiency for their cards but they said that they will do this only on new version of cards produced so that means the hashrates will stay the same in the cards.The 3060 Ti is way more efficient in mining than 3060 so you should buy that as that 220 USD price difference will be covered during the mining operation.

[Wotan Wipeout]

Lots of answers, and nearly correct. The 3070 is a fine card, but the master of hash / watt ratio is the 6800.
It gives around 63 MH/s +-1 MH/s for around 100 - 110 Watt. Not more to say.

[rdluffy]

Lots of answers, and nearly correct. The 3070 is a fine card, but the master of hash / watt ratio is the 6800.
It gives around 63 MH/s +-1 MH/s for around 100 - 110 Watt. Not more to say.

But it's not power on the wall, it's only on software
Here's a video showing thath 6800 is using 145w on the wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDHQBNyVNs

3070 and 3060ti uses less than 145w on the wall

If you have someone measuring 100w or 110w total on a Kill a Watt for example, I would like to see how to get this result, it would be awesome 

[Didz]

Hello,

    I get chance at low price to buy one display card.
1) 3060Ti with Price USD 900
2) 3060 with Price USD 680

As I know 3060Ti about 60Mh/s while 3060 only 48Mh/s
Which one should I/you would buy?

Is nVidia going to nerf 3060 hashrate?  I am nervous...

I think Nvidia have said that they will cut in half their mining efficiency for their cards but they said that they will do this only on new version of cards produced so that means the hashrates will stay the same in the cards.The 3060 Ti is way more efficient in mining than 3060 so you should buy that as that 220 USD price difference will be covered during the mining operation.

I have just been browsing on Ebay and the 3060 Ti is almost the same price as the 3070 and in many instances the 3060 Ti is even more expensive.

[Wotan Wipeout]

@rdluffy

Good point.
I will check it today.

[jorgescott056]

The Minerstats 3070 is without a doubt the best graphics card on the market for most people. It delivers performance on par with the 3060 ti ftw ultra at less than half the price, truly bringing 4K gaming to the mainstream for the first time.

[FirmWars]

Hi Guys,

Until know I mostly bought GTX 1660 Super for my rigs but in term of efficiency (hashrate per watt) I think it's not amongst the best GPU to mine ETH. After OC with a GTX 1660 Super I got in average 31.80 MH/s and 70 Watts so its efficiency is approximately 0.45 MH per Watt (31.80/70).

I realized that with a RTX 3070 after OC you got in average 62.30 MH/s and 115 Watts (with the new absolute core clock feature of HiveOS) so its efficiency is approximately 0.54 MH per Watt (62.30/115)  .

Yes the RTX 3070 is around 2,000$ on Ebay almost double price compared to the GTX 1660 Super but you also get almost double hash rate. Also I saw Red Panda Mining building a 6 X RTX 3070 mining rig with the same components that I use for a 6 X GTX 1660 Super except for the PSU, I need a 1300 W 80+ Gold (I normally buy 1000 W 80+ Gold for my 6 X GTX 1660 Super, I like to have a little extra power).

I think from now on, I will start to buy RTX 3070 GPUs considering in average the efficiency for RTX 3070 is 0.54 MH per Watt VS 0.45 MH per Watt for the GTX 1660 Super. We are talking approximately about 20% efficiency improvement!

Please let me know if I forget something in my analysis?

Thanks

You are wrong, there is a way to go lower than 70watt on those gtx1660 super it's what I used for my rig too, after watching some YouTube video from a Caleb guy there is a way to go lower using Trex absolute core clock, 20% less watt is possible.

https://youtu.be/4fNhJmJbcRk

The Minerstats 3070 is without a doubt the best graphics card on the market for most people. It delivers performance on par with the 3060 ti ftw ultra at less than half the price, truly bringing 4K gaming to the mainstream for the first time.

What are you saying? Minerstat don't build or manufacture graphic cards themselves they are just building mining rigs and sell, also 6x RTX3070 build is over 9,000$ that's a mess, waste of money.

[Crypt0Gore]

Hello,

    I get chance at low price to buy one display card.
1) 3060Ti with Price USD 900
2) 3060 with Price USD 680

As I know 3060Ti about 60Mh/s while 3060 only 48Mh/s
Which one should I/you would buy?

Is nVidia going to nerf 3060 hashrate?  I am nervous...

3060 cards can't get nerfd after you buy them, if it's LHR version it's already LHR out of the box, check the corner of the package it should say V2 if it's LHR but with V1 we can still use HDMI dumble to achieve  better hashrate speed, it's 50MH per 3060 if it's not LHR with 110watt power consumption.

[philipma1957]

The best card to buy is this card.


https://www.cdw.com/product/nvidia-rtx-a2000-graphics-card-rtx-a2000-12-gb/6819614?pfm=srh


if you can get it in stock it can be as low as 600-650

it uses no wires just the slot.
it pulls about 69 watts
it does 40mh

but find it in stock at 600-650 or finding the 6gb version in stock at 550 is really fucking hard to do.

https://www.cdw.com/product/nvidia-rtx-a2000-graphics-card-rtx-a2000-6-gb/6810376?pfm=srh


I have 56 of the 6gb cards on back order.

they will go into 12 card cases.

do 480 gh I paid 550 a card  or 6600 plus  1200 = 7800 for a 12 card build that does 480mh at 960 watts.