Decent Graphics Card For Mining?

If you’re mining memory intensive algorithms, 1070ti

Core intensive algorithms, 1080ti

For amd, depends on your power cost.
 
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I dont have the budget, it is 1 k more o my side . its ridiculous.
I would rather by AMD RX470/480 but they only have mining editions here which are not nice for me, only 3 months warranty.
I was told to go with Nvidia if i would like to try Zcash.

If i was to mine Ethereum i will have until next year maybe 3rd quarter and then i will not have enough ram,. i am okay with this.
 
Ocellaris said:
You want a 6GB mode for mining.
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Probleminfected said:
If you’re mining memory intensive algorithms, 1070ti
Core intensive algorithms, 1080ti
For amd, depends on your power cost.
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Yes guys, hi, thanks, so the thing is i have looked at my budget and for me 1070 was not a bad idea, but i can only get one.
I then though for the price i can get 2 GTX1060's and i can also get more hash power.... its a little over the 1070, say for Zcash/Equihash.
I do hear u and i do know that more RAM and CORE would be ideal, but i just dont have the dosh like some guys , unfortunately.
Unless i get 1 GTX 1070 ? and use that and then say later on get 1 more? it would be more hardware amount of items managable and more ram proof , its just that for 2 gtx 1060s i kind of pay just a little less and i get x2 more hashing power. I hope u can feel me, appreciate the replies.
let me know

If i looks at 1070 ti versus vanilla, i dont see the point in spending money on a ti.
http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...eForce GTX 1070 Ti-vs-Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
 
Go 1070. Amount of RAM is getting more and more important as time goes on. Performance may be less then 2 1060's, but you will also save in power.
As well, I think the days of highly profitable mining is slimming down. The 1070 will do you better in the used market when it comes time to sell.
 
Multiples of 1050ti 4GB aren't a bad choice if you can find with 6pin connector.
EVGA B-Stock is still asking slightly too much. I have high current risers on the
way, that may allow safer use of cheap connectorless 1050ti. Its a theory...

There are profitable altcoins you can mine with little as 2GB, just not Ethereum.
NVidia should probably be mining ZCash anyway...
 
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So from your perspective you are able to safely tell me that if i buy 2 GTX 1060;s thats fine also ?
I am not massive on Ether anyways, but if i wanted to i could mine it until next year.
I obivously will lose out when i want to sell my stuff, but my aim was not to do that anyways.
I buy my opel corsa or my honda ballade and i want to pay the dam things off i dont want to resell.
My friends here they drive their cars like say a vw polo or opel or whatever, and they might do the resell thing,
I guess if i can make the bucks back for the what i spent on the cards, then thats fine enough?
 
imre 6GB 1060s would be fun to start out with.

For NVidia:
In "memory intensive algorithms" aka Ethereum, stay with the 1070 (seems like you are). The 1070 Ti variant has the exact same memory setup and bandwidth amount.

Core intensive algorithms would do well with a 1070 Ti / 1080 Ti, yes.

Stay away from the 1080.

The 1060 6GB 192bit cards are also excellent miners hash/watt.

For AMD:
Samsung memory equipped 8GB RX580s are the way to go. Asus and XFX have several models respectivly.

Stay away from 4GB models, even if they are much cheaper. You want ram these days on your cards.

Anorak has a very nice collection of tuned bioses you would want to use to get optimal performance.
 
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I see and saw the same.
hitched said:
I can see a pair of 1060's being more useful then a single 1070...
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atp1916 said:
imre 6GB 1060s would be fun to start out with.

For NVidia:
In "memory intensive algoritms" aka Ethereum, stay with the 1070 (seems like you are). The 1070 Ti variant has the exact same memory setup and bandwidth optic.

Core intensive algorithms would do well with a 1070 Ti / 1080 Ti, yes.

Stay away from the 1080.

The 1060 6GB 192bit cards are also excellent miners hash/watt.

For AMD:
Samsung memory equipped 8GB RX580s are the way to go. Asus and XFX have several models respectivly.

Stay away from 4GB models, even if they are much cheaper. You want ram these days on your cards.

Anorak has a very nice collection of tuned bioses you would want to use to get optimal performance.
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I was always a AMD seeker because i was told from the start they give the best performance for mining, then i was very start come July when i wanted to get 2 or 2 cards because the price was up and then no bloody shops sold them here in SA or UK , so i was like, what the hell.
Then i just said, well oh well i am just never going to enjoy this further.
I eventually did have 2 RX470;s anyways and then recently i bought a forth RX470 second hand which was actually an OE replacement so it is like new, i dont see any burn ins or whatever, it looks new,
The bios seems odd though, also Samsung memory but it looks like the clocks are different , So ie when i try to use msi afterburner and decrease the clock and increase the memory like i did for my single powercolor and saphire, it doesn't bloody work.
The one card and then all of them become lazy and i get like 12 to 17 hashes a second on ether and sometimes i get blue screens and what not and it is a real pain in the vagina to get the cards working again.
So i guess i need to maybe take the bios of my first powercolor and then flash it to my second (recent card i am talking about) and maybe this will fix the synchronicity issue? because im guessing there is no harmony or synchronizing there .
2 x RX470 PowerColor 4GB and Saphire Nitro+ 8gb
The 1 power color and saphire beautiful together with core clock of 1169 and memory 2100.
With my later addition Powercolor 4gb exact same samsung ram and all, its a pain.
So i guess i need to as i say flash my other powercolor's bios to this card? no sure


to carry on with my story...I then left AMD and then looked at Nvidia, from what i can gather the power consumption seems to be alot better and the speed of the GTX 1060 seems to be like a RX470 , i think.
I scraped RX570/80 because guys told me they are more power killers .so i continued to pursue nvidia and i wanted to get 6gb but i mean they are like 1 k more here in price its ridiculous.
I am thinking the 3GBs will be fine. i hope.

I am after this one - https://www.evetech.co.za/buy-msi-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-dual-fan/best-deal/3101.aspx -, i just hope it is not a piece of rubbish, it doesnt have a back plate and look sexy like lisa ann, but i mean it should have the same general gpu and stuff i hope?
I was after the gigabyte but the shops here have upped their prices so i just thought what the hell.



Just saw another reply to another thread here:

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Okay well now i dont know :
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Yeh cause i was going to say the voodoo banshee 3d card 16 meg is the best.
 
Zcash is one of the best coins for a 1070, at 470sols.
Same money could buy Qty4 1050 2GB for 600sols!
EVGA 1050 2GB $99 Limit5 at B&H.

2GB mining is good money fast. ROI in 4 to 6 months.
Power delivery from the slot without burning up cables
and risers remains a serious problem.

Almost all 1060 3GB have 6pin connector you need to
deliver power properly. Don't sweat that the ETH DAG
won't fit in a year. Metaverse is slightly more profitable
than ETH, and it's DAGfile is tiny, just 1.19GB.

Lets not forget that XMR and VTC are also profitable.

Havn't set a Voodoo on fire lately.
 
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Panic written before Ethereum difficulty bomb defused. 3GB has a bit more time.
Plenty of time to research low memory alternatives and get set-up to mine a few.

Heres one: Psychocrypt's unified XMR-Stak. CPU+AMD+NVIDIA...
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases

Shapeshift XMR minings to a Coinbase ETH or LTC wallet for cashout.
https://www.shapeshift.io

My rationale for buying a 12GB Titan X Pascal was that I wanted to be the last
man still mining Ethereum. Rhetorically, "How's that decision been working out?"
 
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KD5ZXG said:
Panic written before Ethereum difficulty bomb defused. 3GB has a bit more time.
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Except that it wasn’t. Look at the date on that article. If you’d actually read the article it was written after AMD released their dag fix. It said it would not be a problem for AMD 3GB cards, but would be a problem for Nvidia (at current trajectory) in a couple months. He was considering a card that might lose its ability to mine one of the most profitable algorithms in a couple months. Not ideal IMO.
 
Article containing the obsolete information was dated Sept 15th.
Difficulty bomb postponed a month later, by the Byzantium fork Oct 16.

Without AMD Driver fix, mining would have slowed a bit more for AMD cards.
Without ETH Byzantium fix, mining would become impossible or unprofitable
for everyone. It will eventually still happen, but not per the article's schedule.

Ethereum is not the most profitable ETHash coin for a 1060.
PIRL is most profitable coin for 1060 today, as was ETP yesterday.
Both still have very small DAGs, even 2GB is no barrier to mining them.

ETHash is only pennies more profitable than Equihash right now.
Usually the situation is reversed. ZEC or ZEN might be the optimum
coin for your Ronco 1060 3GB mining rig to "set it and forget it."

So much panic about nothing...
 
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My 1070s will tag 450-460 sols on ZEC and ~670Hs on XMR full throttle + overclocked, but that's a hard cap.

I'm reading that the 1070 Ti hashes very very close to a 1080 @near 1070 power in non-Eth mining loads.

Given current prices of reg. 1070s in the 400-450 range and some Ti models starting out at 450, the 1070 Ti may actually have some merit.

Really need to get my mitts on a 1070 Ti to prove it out.
 
dang - I just bought 12 1070 cards today at Dell.
$450 - 21.5% coupon = $352 each + tax.

coupon was thorugh befrugal.

Maybe I should have considered the 1070TI afterall - but was going off the firstmining link above.

1080TI is still the king by a long shot on equihash -- 670 sols -- but use about 180 watts each.

Been reading you can use half the power and get 2/3 the hash rate with the 1070 compared to 1080TI. So for a 12 card rig - with upfront cost considered --- still seems the 1070 is the superior option. one guy i'm talking with says you can mine with about 80 watts per card on the 1070 if you use a custom power curve (control + f) with MSI afterburner. I'm looking forward to trying that.

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After trying out the new unified XMR-Stak on Titan X Pascal, 965H/s.
My NVidia GPU could be better used for Equihash or Lyra2REv2.

But more impressively, Ryzen7 at 3.6GHz saw improvements of 20H
per real core vs slightly older XMR-Stak-CPU, now 588H/s. Yes, thats
a CPU turned down in speed to save power, 3200 mem at only 2400
because 3200 wasn't stable, mining more than half of Titan X Pascal
with 12GB cranked all the way up.

Ryzen7 is mining at 47.7C with default AMD Stealth cooler.
Titian X Pascal is 55C. Room temp is about 75F.

For CryptoNight today, SUMOkoin is more profitable than XMR.
But I have old XMR hashes needing flushed out of Nanopool.
Soon as I hit payout, I need to evaluate wether mining SUMO
makes any CPU sense, or just a momentary whattomine fluke.

A strange side-effect of NiceHash is that it levels the market even
for those that don't directly use it. As long as you mine something
that isn't grossly mismatched to your hardware, it almost doesn't
even matter what you mine. Changing coin every 5min isn't really
necessary.

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I have several Zotac 1050ti 4GB's and a 1060 3GB, all of mini style.
For Ethereum, none of these put out enough heat to really challenge
the single fan. You might see problems if you were to put all those
extra 1070ti cores to heavy work on a different coin.
 
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I have some of my rigs mining Sumo now. There's gonna be huge sell offs as it increases in value and the difficulty has doubled in the last week. But I don't know, I think it's worth a shot to mine it and hold and see what happens. I'm not gonna rush to sell it at $0.75 like everyone else was.

For your Ryzen KD5ZXG, is that 588 all cores? I'm debating whether to switch to new Xmr Stak. I feel like that's about what I get on 7 cores running @ 4ghz.
 
Thats 8 cores, at 3.6GHz, with fairly slow memory timings.
Been screwing with 2933MHz memory, made it slightly worse.
These are not final optimal settings by any stretch.

Lowered intensity on Titan (by raising "bfactor" to 9) cause it was
sometimes annoyingly jerky to simultaneously use for anything else.
This one is my everyday home desktop, not a dedicated mining rig.

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XMR-Stak while messin around Skyrim at 1080p Ultra.
Performance definately degraded, but playable enough...

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Seems pretty good. I may mess with the new build then. Thanks
 
My 1700X @4.025 pushes 650h+ w/ xmr-stak via the nicehash legacy miner.

Had to set 0 less threads, secondary param of 'enable_ht=true', and lock pages in memory to make it happen. This causes the miner to use only physical threads.

The hashrate will hop around if you are actively using the system.
 
Archaea said:
dang - I just bought 12 1070 cards today at Dell.
$450 - 21.5% coupon = $352 each + tax.

coupon was thorugh befrugal.

Maybe I should have considered the 1070TI afterall - but was going off the firstmining link above.

1080TI is still the king by a long shot on equihash -- 670 sols -- but use about 180 watts each.

Been reading you can use half the power and get 2/3 the hash rate with the 1070 compared to 1080TI. So for a 12 card rig - with upfront cost considered --- still seems the 1070 is the superior option. one guy i'm talking with says you can mine with about 80 watts per card on the 1070 if you use a custom power curve (control + f) with MSI afterburner. I'm looking forward to trying that.

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Dam when i look at this it is probably actually worth while buying a 1080 because i have 3 cards RX470 and they do the same return in USD.
I really cant believe though that the solutions/second are pretty low for a 1080 ti, i thought they are supposed to be power cards
 
Archaea said:
dang - I just bought 12 1070 cards today at Dell.
$450 - 21.5% coupon = $352 each + tax.

coupon was thorugh befrugal.

Maybe I should have considered the 1070TI afterall - but was going off the firstmining link above.

1080TI is still the king by a long shot on equihash -- 670 sols -- but use about 180 watts each.

Been reading you can use half the power and get 2/3 the hash rate with the 1070 compared to 1080TI. So for a 12 card rig - with upfront cost considered --- still seems the 1070 is the superior option. one guy i'm talking with says you can mine with about 80 watts per card on the 1070 if you use a custom power curve (control + f) with MSI afterburner. I'm looking forward to trying that.

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Shit man, how did you afford 12 cards, my goodness.
I mean you will make that money back hey ?
I worked it out, if i buy 18 1080s i need to sell my honda.
My honda is about 180k and the cards are about 10 grand here, ridiculous

so maybe i sell my car then get cards and mine, and then use a bicycle to work or my old opel corsa, anfd then when i make the money back and more, then i buy a toyota fortuna ?
 
atp1916 said:
Just picked up a Zotac 1070 Ti Mini to test out.

I'll report back on the hashrates in a dedicated thread after i've put her through her paces.
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I have one of those If you're mining in windows you should be fine. the linux miners I've tried have been really hit or miss on it. I'm about to move it to a windows machine. i've been juggling cards around to make room.
 
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So windows is pretty close to linux mining now days i would imagine?
Some good devs out there for both os types i guess so the interest is there.
I looked at getting 1070s instead of a second or 3rd 1050 1060.
I have 1 1060 and 1 1050. , not sure what you okes would think , let me know
 
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And Vega does 2kH/s...just sayin'. ;)
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yeah the vega 56 is the king. the vega 64 only doesn't slightly better at a higher wattage. I'm sitting at 3 vega 56 and 1 vega 64. They are a PITA to setup for the first time though. I need to get JJs monitor setup. I've just been using a .bat file to run devcon and reimport the settings.
 
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yeah the vega 56 is the king. the vega 64 only doesn't slightly better at a higher wattage. I'm sitting at 3 vega 56 and 1 vega 64. They are a PITA to setup for the first time though. I need to get JJs monitor setup. I've just been using a .bat file to run devcon and reimport the settings.
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Yeah, I get about 1960 on my V56 (950 memory) and 2030 on my V64 (1100 memory). Just really sucks you can't find a V56 under about $550 right now.

A new version of Cast XMR got released that lets you get the client status in JSON format...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256917.msg25430741#msg25430741

So it should be pretty easy to integrate that into mining monitors.
 
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