Would fpga mining steal beat gpu mining today?

[ytrezq]

Of course, only ASIC is relevant today. But before bitcoin asics became available, fpga based bitcoin mining out competed gpus.

Back at that time, gpus were mainly floating point oriented. But would a modern Stratix 10 Gx with over 12 million lut still beat a RTX4090 in terms of mining profitability?

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I do not know much about the products that you mentioned, but when I know about bitcoin, I read about bitcoin mining which let me know how powerful the miners are.

CPU of the computers were the weakest. I do not think people use phones to mine at the time.
Followed by GPU which are graphics card.
Followed by FPGA
And the last that people are using and which become more powerful are the ASICs which are the most power generating the highest hashrates.

FPGAs are more powerful than GPUs.

Miners moved from CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC. They moved from less powerful one to more powerful ones.

[philipma1957]

Very little fpga mining of btc.

Mostly  cpu gpu asic

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Of course, only ASIC is relevant today. But before bitcoin asics became available, fpga based bitcoin mining out competed gpus.

Back at that time, gpus were mainly floating point oriented. But would a modern Stratix 10 Gx with over 12 million lut still beat a RTX4090 in terms of mining profitability?

Would not be a question of profitability as both will operate at a heavy loss. I doubt anyone has or ever will be bothered to test it.

You may as well ask, "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" as both are highly speculative.