What would you mine if you have a single 1080Ti?
Same thing you'd mine with 10 or 50 of them. Whatever is more profitable at the moment. I'm mining BTX right now. There might be better coins out there though, skein algo was mentioned a couple of times here recently, and the power consumption on skein should be less than on BTX.
Would you prefer RX Vega 64 Liquid or 1080Ti for similar prices?
Not an easy choice. On one hand 1080 Ti is just a more powerful GPU in general, and outperforms vega in gaming and most of the mining algos. On the other hand, cryptonight coins seem to be doing well and have been doing well for a bit.. long enough, actually, that I personally know a dude that has already ROId his water cooled Vega's. So, obviously for cryptonight vega is the king, and for ETH it's doing quite well as well. But then again, a water-cooled Vega is what — $700? If you're willing to bet on cryptonight/eth, you might as well get ~ 3*rx 570/580 cards for about the same price, and they'll be noticeably faster on cryptonight and ~two times faster on ETH. So, I think between the two I'd pick a 1080 Ti.
Thank you very much for the feedback. My target for the GPU to be purchased is both mining and gaming. So more/most powerful single card is more favorable in this purchase.
I will buy a high end GPU for my PC. I actually already have 1 NV 3x1080Ti rig and 1 AMD rig with 6 RX series.
I will also use GPU on my PC to mine when it is idle which would be around 18 hours a day.
Other times daily use, gaming etc.
For now, like today with sales: RX Vega Liquid is 800USD for me and Zotac GTX1080 Ti AMP Extreme Core Edition is 921USD from local market. Both brand new.
Considering I will mine with this card, local warranty is important for me so I will buy from local market but not Amazon
Anyways 1080Ti zotac is like 965/970USD and RX Vega is 1000USD/910USD from Amazon US/EU with shipping and tax.
Both price ans waranty wise, local market is better for me today.
RX Vega consumes more and provides less in gaming. Maybe this scene may shift in years as AMD cards age well.
1080Ti is vice versa and it is a beast now and mostly like to stay as a beast for some time as well.
I am more inclined to get another 1080Ti but also concerned about new NV GPUs to come.
If 2070/1170 equals 1080Ti in performance then 1080Ti will lose a lot value as happened is 980Ti vs GTX 1070
If I can ROI most of the cost in 6 months, this will not be issue though as I do not think we will see new gen NV XX70/XX80 before May 18 on the shelves.
Monitor will be either similar priced 1440P-IPS-Gync-144Hz or 4K-TN-Freesynch-60Hz depending on the GPU.
I am aware about the user experience differences for these two monitors with these two cards.
1080Ti would be better for 4K either with Gsync for Freesynch with pure performance.
4K IPS Gysnc is quite expensive when compared with these two.