AMD or NVIDIA?

[chris190]

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Until some time ago mining with cards AMD compared to NVIDIA was very convenient especially in speed. But now, in February 2015, with the graphic evolution, amd is still the best and most affordable or not, compared to NVIDIA?

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[NoahWL1]

Yes, AMDs are still better than nVidia cards.  I'm not completely sure why, but I think it has something in part to do with the amount of shader cores each card has?  But like others say, GPU mining is almost completely dead.  Some alt coins that are meant for GPUs/CPUs are out there, but again, as others have said, altcoins are not incredibly reliable.  If you're strategic enough, though, there is money to be made with altcoins.

[Gladimor]

AMD: Raw power
Nvidia: Power efficiency

[moko666]

for mining purpose AMD is still better then Nvidia
for gaming you can use latest Nvidia cards

[TrianglePythagoras]

With gaming I find AMD give you the best colour. While nVidia gets the best details

[AllTheBitz]

My curiosity

Until some time ago mining with cards AMD compared to NVIDIA was very convenient especially in speed. But now, in February 2015, with the graphic evolution, amd is still the best and most affordable or not, compared to NVIDIA?

AMD is always better than NVIDIA ,I have a 2.5 GH Nvidia 9500 GT and my mining speed is 4 kh/s for bitcoin .
And sometime the monitor turn off  . Nvidia are so weak compared to AMD .

[kamale]

My curiosity

Until some time ago mining with cards AMD compared to NVIDIA was very convenient especially in speed. But now, in February 2015, with the graphic evolution, amd is still the best and most affordable or not, compared to NVIDIA?

AMD is always better than NVIDIA ,I have a 2.5 GH Nvidia 9500 GT and my mining speed is 4 kh/s for bitcoin .
And sometime the monitor turn off  . Nvidia are so weak compared to AMD .

Not all , Nvidia has better, more frequent driver updates, better performance, PhysX, doesn't screw up when I use HDMI with it, and doesn't do that crap native resize failure that AMD does (if I want to play Age of Empires at 1024 * 768, Nvidia scales properly; AMD flails and then screws up).

I regret switching to AMD.

AMD has crappy drivers and Tressfx. It's not just on the CPU front; apparently, because I have an AMD CPU, I can't play one of the Darksiders II DLCs.

[xingming]

My curiosity

Until some time ago mining with cards AMD compared to NVIDIA was very convenient especially in speed. But now, in February 2015, with the graphic evolution, amd is still the best and most affordable or not, compared to NVIDIA?

If you talk about bitcoin , you talk about energy consumption .
NVIDIA obviously wins the power consumption battle no matter which card is used, though. AMD is working well
but can't make a point in bitcoin mining vs NVIDIA  .

[chris190]

Thank guys!

[Bananana]

My curiosity

Until some time ago mining with cards AMD compared to NVIDIA was very convenient especially in speed. But now, in February 2015, with the graphic evolution, amd is still the best and most affordable or not, compared to NVIDIA?

Nvidia is better, more energy efficiency, but none is profitable now. So not buying any graphic card is the best choice.

[djm34]

Mining with cards has been obsolete for a while, and for shit altcoins gpu only still amd. Don't mine with cards, don't get fucked by altcoins.

here we go again  
The real question is: Are you watching the "mining/altcoins" thread just to answer it isn't profitable and altcoin are shits ?

[MarkMJ]

Hello dear,

AMD will be the best for mining altcoins,so AMD compared to NVIDIA? AMD.

[Amph]

i would say nvidia, unless you have some crazy private amd miner

[Shadow_Runner]

AMD has bigger hashrate with some algos, but sometimes nVidia miner comes first for new algo, which means low diff.

[Bananana]

I like to prefer AMD because AMD is best for minig like amd r9...

I like AMD..

Some people say AMD generate more heat so its better cause you used it for winter.

[ingiltere]

I have AMD but I checked litecoin mining profitability table, my card is old for mining. I think I need a new card for altcoin mining.

[cursednova]

i have always sided with AMD. I like the amd over drive program when i play games they have smart profiles.

For mining well i started later so i went straight to asic miners. Good or bad i like them :p

[gawful]

AMD: Raw power
Nvidia: Power efficiency

I need some power efficiency these days, the cost of hydro power keeps going up and $ return going down.

[Lorenzo]

I was going to make my own thread about this but I might as well ask it here. Do AMD and Nvidia cards perform differently depending on the algorithm? I know back when Bitcoin was mined using GPUs, an AMD part would perform much better than the equivalent Nvidia part when mining SHA-256. But nowadays I see people mining altcoins using Nvidia cards too.

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If you typically follow GPU performance as it related to gaming but have become curious about Bitcoin mining, you’ve probably noticed and been surprised by the fact that AMD GPUs are the uncontested performance leaders in the market. This is in stark contrast to the PC graphics business, where AMD’s HD 7000 series has been playing a defensive game against Nvidia’s GK104 / GeForce 600 family of products. In Bitcoin mining, the situation is almost completely reversed — the Radeon 7970 is capable of 550MHash/second, while the GTX 680 is roughly 1/5 as fast.

Link: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153467-amd-destroys-nvidia-bitcoin-mining

On a GTX 750 Ti you are probably going to get pretty much the same performance that a Radeon R9 280X currently has for X11 mining or about 2 MHS or slightly more. So now Nvidia clearly has the advantage in X11 mining in terms of performance over AMD.

Link: http://cryptomining-blog.com/2422-updated-ccminer-1-0-beta-with-improved-performance-for-x11-mining/

[Bombadil]

I was going to make my own thread about this but I might as well ask it here. Do AMD and Nvidia cards perform differently depending on the algorithm? I know back when Bitcoin was mined using GPUs, an AMD part would perform much better than the equivalent Nvidia part when mining SHA-256. But nowadays I see people mining altcoins using Nvidia cards too.

e.g.

If you typically follow GPU performance as it related to gaming but have become curious about Bitcoin mining, you’ve probably noticed and been surprised by the fact that AMD GPUs are the uncontested performance leaders in the market. This is in stark contrast to the PC graphics business, where AMD’s HD 7000 series has been playing a defensive game against Nvidia’s GK104 / GeForce 600 family of products. In Bitcoin mining, the situation is almost completely reversed — the Radeon 7970 is capable of 550MHash/second, while the GTX 680 is roughly 1/5 as fast.

Link: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153467-amd-destroys-nvidia-bitcoin-mining

On a GTX 750 Ti you are probably going to get pretty much the same performance that a Radeon R9 280X currently has for X11 mining or about 2 MHS or slightly more. So now Nvidia clearly has the advantage in X11 mining in terms of performance over AMD.

Link: http://cryptomining-blog.com/2422-updated-ccminer-1-0-beta-with-improved-performance-for-x11-mining/

Yep, Nvidia & AMD perform differently on different algorithms. A lot depends on the implementation though, but be sure that there are certain algos that perform better on Nvidia or on AMD.