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February 29, 2012, 04:33:39 PM |
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Where do you guys get 6970 gets 683 GFLOPS.
6970 has 2.7 TFLOPS of floating point computational power and a 7970 is ~3.8 TFLOPS.
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bulanula
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March 01, 2012, 12:20:39 AM |
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Where do you guys get 6970 gets 683 GFLOPS.
6970 has 2.7 TFLOPS of floating point computational power and a 7970 is ~3.8 TFLOPS.
WOW. Did not realize the difference between a 5870 and 7970 was that big. Now that you look at the TFLOPS and MHash/s it really does look like the 7970 is almost 1.7 times faster than a 5870 due to the much better overclocking ability of 28nm GPUs.
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March 01, 2012, 03:50:47 AM |
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Where do you guys get 6970 gets 683 GFLOPS.
6970 has 2.7 TFLOPS of floating point computational power and a 7970 is ~3.8 TFLOPS.
WOW. Did not realize the difference between a 5870 and 7970 was that big. Now that you look at the TFLOPS and MHash/s it really does look like the 7970 is almost 1.7 times faster than a 5870 due to the much better overclocking ability of 28nm GPUs. Yeah AMD integer performance took a nose dive with the new architecture. The 7970 simply puts up respectable numbers by brute force.
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March 02, 2012, 07:18:33 PM |
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I see you need the model B, $35 to get ethernet.
Not really. You can get a USB ethernet adapter for less than $4, or a USB wifi adapter for $8. Dropping the extra $10 to get it built in might give you higher quality components though.
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March 02, 2012, 07:24:06 PM |
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I see you need the model B, $35 to get ethernet.
Not really. You can get a USB ethernet adapter for less than $4, or a USB wifi adapter for $8. You got drivers to support that on the ARM platform?
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Global BTC
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March 02, 2012, 07:34:15 PM |
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Good point. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's probably not worth the hassle to save $6.
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March 02, 2012, 07:42:15 PM |
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Type B has 2 usb ports, type A only one. The dubble usb port count is also worth something
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March 03, 2012, 08:47:54 PM |
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Where do you guys get 6970 gets 683 GFLOPS.
6970 has 2.7 TFLOPS of floating point computational power and a 7970 is ~3.8 TFLOPS.
It's the double precision compute power 6970 2.7 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power 683 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power
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BkkCoins
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March 04, 2012, 02:04:56 AM |
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Where do you guys get 6970 gets 683 GFLOPS.
6970 has 2.7 TFLOPS of floating point computational power and a 7970 is ~3.8 TFLOPS.
It's the double precision compute power 6970 2.7 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power 683 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power It's my understanding that Bitcoin doesn't use floating point anyway - only integer. So unless the gpu architecture is the same any comparison is likely apples to oranges.
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March 04, 2012, 09:11:06 AM |
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Ok, ima get one of these, but i dont have a fgpa to hook it upto for testing, :/
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March 04, 2012, 09:34:11 AM |
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Ok, ima get one of these, but i dont have a fgpa to hook it upto for testing, :/
That's OK, I do By the time you get your Pi delivered you may as well (it'll be a little while yet).
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shivansps
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May 05, 2012, 06:13:27 AM |
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So if we are looking for trouble why not use a OpenWRT supporting router with USB port to run the FPGAs? haha...
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This is not OK.
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May 05, 2012, 10:20:42 AM |
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So if we are looking for trouble why not use a OpenWRT supporting router with USB port to run the FPGAs? haha...
Done
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What's a GPU?
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May 05, 2012, 05:50:06 PM |
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I have experience running large amounts of FPGAs on what might be called an underpowered machine. I wouldn't plan on hosting more than five boards with this, but that is a very rough estimate.
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May 05, 2012, 06:00:21 PM |
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I'd love to know how to setup an FPGA with the raspberry pi so I can finally get a really cheap and low energy PC for getwork tasks while delegating the actual mining to the FPGA.I'd like a clear walkthrough with pics if someone has managed as well as which OS they used on the Raspberry Pi.
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