Any one mining with GTX 960 (latest card, launched 2 days ago)

[malekbaba]

If you are mining with a GTX 960, please share your experience. And also tell me, what coin you are mining with it .

[Bombadil]

http://cryptomining-blog.com/4219-the-new-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-mining-performance/

[ahmi]

Me....noT!!

[seoincorporation]

If you are mining with a GTX 960, please share your experience. And also tell me, what coin you are mining with it .

Nvidia is not good for mining, if you want to mine with a video card, use AMD.

[djm34]

If you are mining with a GTX 960, please share your experience. And also tell me, what coin you are mining with it .

Nvidia is not good for mining, if you want to mine with a video card, use AMD.

wow someone who has been in hibernation over the past year

[Amph]

http://cryptomining-blog.com/4219-the-new-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-mining-performance/

what miner they are using? the sp one? because the hash rate seems bad

[bluebox]

Hi all, new to the forum.

The 960 is probably not the best choice in the long run. Nominal power consumption only 20W less than a 970, but 40-50% less of everything else (currently available cards):
— half the RAM
— half the memory bandwidth/bus width
— 1024 cores vs. 1664 (fewer SMM's)
— 60% x11 hash rate of the 970

I strictly mine X11, and on a single 970 (EVGA SSC ACX2.0 known for its low power), it gets 7.7 MH/s with stock clocks and latest ccminer 1.5.3x. With ~8% OC, 8.4 MH/s. My entire system draws less than 160W running full-out. I think the equivalent Radeon R9 @~$350 produces one third of this hash rate (and uses more power).

Add another 970, get 15 MH/s guesstimating ~250W. The same SSC ACX2 960's from EVGA would likely yield less than 10 MH/s for the same power.

Be interested to hear comments. My box is a gaming system, just tinkering with mining for kicks. My day job is running a linux HPC cluster.

[djm34]

Hi all, new to the forum.

The 960 is probably not the best choice in the long run. Nominal power consumption only 20W less than a 970, but 40-50% less of everything else (currently available cards):
— half the RAM
— half the memory bandwidth/bus width
— 1024 cores vs. 1664 (fewer SMM's)
— 60% x11 hash rate of the 970

I strictly mine X11, and on a single 970 (EVGA SSC ACX2.0 known for its low power), it gets 7.7 MH/s with stock clocks and latest ccminer 1.5.3x. With ~8% OC, 8.4 MH/s. My entire system draws less than 160W running full-out. I think the equivalent Radeon R9 @~$350 produces one third of this hash rate (and uses more power).

Add another 970, get 15 MH/s guesstimating ~250W. The same SSC ACX2 960's from EVGA would likely yield less than 10 MH/s for the same power.

Be interested to hear comments. My box is a gaming system, just tinkering with mining for kicks. My day job is running a linux HPC cluster.

yep... and the price isn't great either, I saw 200usd somewhere, but in europe what I saw was rather 250euros...

[bluebox]

Yes, cheapest 960's are Zotac or MSI, $200. EVGA's power-conscious 960 ACX2 model is $210. The EVGA 970 SSC ACX2 I have is $350 at Amazon.

[grouper fish]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

[grendel25]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

I agree 750ti still seems like best bang for buck in mining.  I think gpu mfr's will catch on to the dual benefit of their equipment eventually and start producing more powerful low power cards.

[grouper fish]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

I agree 750ti still seems like best bang for buck in mining.  I think gpu mfr's will catch on to the dual benefit of their equipment eventually and start producing more powerful low power cards.

I hope so too, but didn't amd announce a new card with some form of stacked memory that has insane power draw? Maybe we will see them take different directions in their development in terms of computing power vs power draw.

[bluebox]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

The "problems" with the 970 (I don't know about the 960, they were just released - too early to say) relate to "coil whine" afaik, and those are likely due to poor psu's or a myriad other things. Mine is quiet as a mouse, other than low whir from fans when hashing/intense gaming. My case fans make more noise...

One 970 equals four 750ti's in x11 hashrate for 2/3 the power, albeit at a higher initial cost (a 960 = 2 750's). This is a density play - a 4x PCI board will equal 16 750's. In the long run a much better power solution as well.

Interesting to see where this goes.

[Bananana]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

I agree 750ti still seems like best bang for buck in mining.  I think gpu mfr's will catch on to the dual benefit of their equipment eventually and start producing more powerful low power cards.

But 750ti require more slot for the same hash rate, so you will eventually spend more on motherboard, cpu etc.

[malekbaba]

If GTX 960 produces almost 2x hash/sec in comparison to GTX 750ti, then it is good card for mining with its price. Is not it ?

[Bombadil]

If GTX 960 produces almost 2x hash/sec in comparison to GTX 750ti, then it is good card for mining with its price. Is not it ?

It isn't x2... Again: http://cryptomining-blog.com/4219-the-new-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-mining-performance/
Comparison 750ti/960 is in that link

[bank of bits]

http://cryptomining-blog.com/4219-the-new-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-mining-performance/

Good to hear an update on the software and hardware progress.

[grouper fish]

Both 960 and 970 seems to have some hardware problems right now, I was thinking of buying a few cards but will probably wait and see if they are fixed or have their price lowered.

I'm currently more interested in seeing if the 960 launch will lead to the 750 ti having its price lowered.

750 ti still seems like the card to beat for mining?

The "problems" with the 970 (I don't know about the 960, they were just released - too early to say) relate to "coil whine" afaik, and those are likely due to poor psu's or a myriad other things. Mine is quiet as a mouse, other than low whir from fans when hashing/intense gaming. My case fans make more noise...

One 970 equals four 750ti's in x11 hashrate for 2/3 the power, albeit at a higher initial cost (a 960 = 2 750's). This is a density play - a 4x PCI board will equal 16 750's. In the long run a much better power solution as well.

Interesting to see where this goes.

There is also problems with the memory segmentation.

[grendel25]

100-120 watts power consumption still?  I'm sure they can and will do better than that.  I don't think it will be too long before they double the performance and half the power consumption.

[AliassailA]

Im currently getting 5.0mhs mining neoscrypt with 5 960's pulling ~500W. Thanks to DMJ's coding! And then I have a titan x rig being built(higher end cards depreciate less). Make ROI+50% sell and reinvest in new better hardware has been my formula. If there is no better hardware alternative (which there always will be according to moores law) keep mining. As a reference with the same rig I get~25mhs x11@350W Also using yvg's yam cpuminer on an lga 2011 x97 based board with a xeon phi for x11 mining is a great idea im trying out.