Topic: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator - page 60. (Read 73507 times)

really, Google cant find anything?

The ASUS Hyper can fit up to 4x m.2 right?

Or maybe we should wait for more charts and a really good explanation of GPUHoarder.

Can anyone post me a great external m.2 adapter to connect the acorn?

Need to study more on these charts

It says the 215+ can mine alone on a m2 slot.

No stats but I have a lot of mobos with m2 slots.

Maybe a dozen .  This maybe a good option for some.

You are focusing on low end GPUs (I understand that). Many small miners do not want to have big rigs, therefore they (we) use mostly high end cards (possibly only GTX1080Ti - for flexibility). How do you judge usefulnes of Acorn for those GPUs, please?

This is exactly a critical question needed to be answered. I am also concerned about various pools access, including NiceHash

Yep, but reserve judgement until you know how much an Acorn can accelerate multiple GPUs.
Don't forget the price & opportunity cost in your calculation. One Acorn costs the same as two 1050Ti's and will only boost some algos.

...and also, PCIe lanes (CPU) and mobo config might have an importance in the calcs as well. If you need to get more hardware to extract performance, it needs factoring in as well.

IMO that is a terrible board for the price but I think that is kind of the rub with AMD;  You get a good processor for cheap, get raped on a subpar motherboard

Seems good for 2x 1080ti, 2x acorn. But 2x acorn per 1080ti has further boosts in some algo like lyra2re2

As in the acorn2 stand alone?

Or some other FPGA?

If a different FPGA which one?

@dragon mike my 1050tis will like this

The way it looks, the Acorn is good at taking over core-intensive tasks. Hence, the weaker your GPU, the more the Acorn will improve hashrate. Furthermore, this also implies (as GPUhoarder mentioned already) that memory intensive algos like EThash will not see much improvement.

Conclusion: If you have RX570's/GTX1060's or weaker, an Acorn or two would be a decent addition. If your rig uses more powerful GPUs it might just not be worth it.

For what it's worth, philipma1957, that's also a good mobo for use with the FPGA.

That adapter won't support the Acorn. The slots in it are B key, the Acorn is M key.

Edit: The ASUS Hyper does, if you can find one.

This is an error on my part.





To go from 100% to 189%. On a 1060 39% of a 215+ would be used

So 3 1060s May jump from 100% to 170%

And 2 1060s would get the boost from 100% to 189%



I read charts wrong

This is super exciting.

What gets me is that I will need an Acorn for everyone of my 1060's I have in my rig? I have 2 X 12 of them.
I might get the 215+ and run it as a "FPGA" mining on its own.

Would like to see numbers on equihash etc.
Would like to make those Z9's dumpsterworthy

It would be interesting to see what this accelerator would do with older cards such as the R9 380, 280/290, and 7970 series,

So this board will be my tester


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157757


Expansion Slots
PCI Express 3.0 x16
2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2: x16 mode; PCIE3: x8 mode)
Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
PCI Express 2.0 x16
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE5 at x4 mode)
If PCIE5 slot is occupied, M2_2 will be disabled
PCI Express x1
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slots
Other Slots
1 x Vertical M.2 Socket (Key E) with the bundled Wi Fi 802.11 ac module (on the rear I/O)
15µ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)

Storage Devices
SATA 6Gb/s
8 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s Connectors, support RAID, NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
2 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
M.2
1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32Gb/s)
1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20Gb/s)*

*If M2_2 is occupied, PCIE5 slot will be disabled
*Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
*Supports ASRock U.2 Kit


Will see how it goes.

and yes someone mentions the mining software here:

 it could be really good compared to old school software
it could be about the same as " " "
or it could suck compared to     " " ".

so pretend an rx 560  does 300 on an  old school monero program  pulling 120 watts
 on this software  and 1 acorn2  it may do 750   pulling  158 watts

and 1 acorn 2 would cover 4 of them at the lower setting

so rx560's could get a good boost here