nothing about power consumption in that AMD release article. which, for miners with > free electricity, means almost everything.
The 390x is rumored to have 300W TDP and they will be released on June 18th and the flagship device, Fury will be released on June 24th. I'll be curious what Wolf0 will crank out of those ones.
It's not going to matter. Wolf0 makes private kernels and sells them to the select few. Good reason if any to stay away from AMD. I was already there and saw that.
And yeah, efficiency...
I'm not interested in AMD mining at all, I'm all for nvidia but it is valuable to know how those cards will run because they could potentially cripple the green team especially because they will be cheap (R9 390X 8GB - $390; R9 390 8GB - $329).
And to be completely honest I wish more people would advertise their private miners because as much as I appreciate sp_, tpruvot, djm34 and other's work their optimizations are being used by everyone because they are free and in reality if everyone has fast miners then nobody really have an advantage.
It might be a good example (or just a coincidence) that since sp_ announced a week ago that he "pushed Quark on the AMD 280x from 1.7 MHASH to 4,5MHASH on standard clocks" the weekly average hashrate on yaamp for quark increased from 572 mh/s to 852 mh/s even though the profit decreased from 0.051 to 0.0398 mbtc/mh/d. And apparently there's a private russian miner which does 11mh/s (280x) and if that was free, quark mining would turn unprofitable very fast. So really, you either have very cheap electiricty, a fast private miner or tons of time to research coins nobody is looking at.
Miners mine mainly for profit so why shouldn't devs prioritize their profits as well? Assuming sp_ haven't changed his donation address he only received 4.6 BTC in the last 9 months meanwhile on yaamp alone currently there are 98 miners (with who knows how many cards per miner) using different SP-MOD ccminer forks. How many of those people ever donated or even knew this thread existed? Sure, private miners have plenty of cons on both sides but I'd certainly like to know the options.
Yup... outside of mining AMD has really good bang for your buck and these new ones sound like killer deals once again.
Also agree about people advertising their private miners and even suggested it to great lengths as small miners could get a idea of entry costs into mining which are currently obfuscated by not having a market you can buy these on. Strange isn't it? We live in a environment of extremely transparent and fluid money, yet what we use to mine it seems to be a extremely guarded secret...
I'm not against paying someone for their work and buying a 'product', but if people don't know it exists or refuse to sell it to everyone... it's kinda... That's what happened with AMD and why I abandon it.
Quoted for emphasis. Everyone should truly consider some sort of crowdfunding. I have a long running joke about people wanting more performance and sort but don't tell anyone (LOL)!
Yup and I mentioned this to both Wolf0 and DJM and they enjoyed a two page rant of making fun of me for suggesting such a thing. To paraphrase, a miner with a built in fee will always be re-engineered to be free, no one donates, and if they sold it so normal miners could afford it, it would get leaked sooner...
I'm not against a miner with a built in fee as well as long as it's reasonable (like 2%).
