Topic: Best demonstrated efficiency: 1290 Mhash/Joule - page 6. (Read 20619 times)
If you are just looking for best Mhash/Joule I'll downclock my intel Q6600 from 2.4GHz to 2.4MHz so it is 1000 times slower and uses 1,000,000 times less energy so it gets a 1000 times better MHash/Joule rating.
Let me ask you this: if the chip measured 13.76 mJ/Gbits at 130nm, what do you think is a plausible mJ/Gbits performance figure at 32nm? how about 45nm?
Let me get this straight: BFL is claiming 1,750 MH/J and you are trying to say that is plausible based on some paper you found that demonstrated 71 MH/J?
Seriously?
Seriously?
I know. (Actually 1400 Mhash/Joule at 2.5W.) And the goal of this thread is to compare BFL's theoretical claims vs. actual chips.
Blah, BFL is talking about ~1750MH/Joule 
Jalapeno, USB device 3.5GH/s @ 2W from USB
Jalapeno, USB device 3.5GH/s @ 2W from USB
This thread shall be used to report the best demonstrated energy efficiencies of real-world ASIC implementations of SHA-256 at the chip level.
(Note: for reference, hashing 1 gigabit of data per second corresponds to a mining speed of about 1 Mhash/s because one Bitcoin hash consists of hashing 1024 bits of data, or 2 SHA-256 data blocks: SHA-256(SHA-256(x)) minus a few SHA-256 steps that can be optimized out.)
BFL claims the 'SC' Jalapeno (3.5 Ghash/s) will be USB-powered. I theorize it will draw 5W via 2 USB ports (2.5W per port), giving it an efficiency of 700 Mhash/J. Edit: BFL has since then confirmed that the Jalapeno will be powered by 2 USB ports.
The 167 Mhash/J number at 130nm indicates that 668 Mhash/J should be possible by merely scaling down the design to 65nm (because 65nm is theoretically 4x more power efficient than 130nm as efficiency is linearly proportional to the transistor junction area), confirming my BFL estimate of 700 Mhash/J. Furthermore, it is known that BFL pre-sold $250k of SC devices in the first day, making it almost certain that they can cover the NRE cost for developing at 65nm which is only $500k. (And on top of pre-order revenues, BFL also claim to have received VC capital.)
- 1290 Mhash/Joule claimed by bitfury at the chip level, and 1140 Mhash/J were confirmed by cscape at 12V.
- 310 Mhash/Joule as reported by BFL on their 65nm ASIC (they document 3.2 Watt per Gh/s).
- 167 Mhash/Joule as reported by Bitfountain/ASICMINER/friedcat when measuring power consumption on their Block Erupter 130nm ASIC (down to "6 Watt per 1 Ghash/s"). At 12V DC their implementation's efficiency is 130 Mhash/Joule (each 10.752 Gh/s blade consumes 83 Watt). Note that previous RTL simulations had estimated 238 Mhash/Joule at the chip level.
- 151 Mhash/Joule for the 110nm Avalon, as advertised by the vendor saying 6.6-6.7 Watt per Ghash/s and as confirmed by real-world measurements (620 Watt at the wall but 438 Watt consumed by the chips after removing AC/DC and DC/DC PSU inefficiencies).
- 73 Mhash/Joule derived from "13.76 mJ/Gbits" as measured on a 130nm ASIC developed by a research group from Virginia Tech for comparing SHA-256 to SHA-3 candidates: http://rijndael.ece.vt.edu/sha3/publications/DATE2012SHA3.pdf (pub. March 2012). RTL simulations preceding the manufacture of the chip had predicted a number very close to this: 13.42 mJ/Gbits.
(Note: for reference, hashing 1 gigabit of data per second corresponds to a mining speed of about 1 Mhash/s because one Bitcoin hash consists of hashing 1024 bits of data, or 2 SHA-256 data blocks: SHA-256(SHA-256(x)) minus a few SHA-256 steps that can be optimized out.)
BFL claims the 'SC' Jalapeno (3.5 Ghash/s) will be USB-powered. I theorize it will draw 5W via 2 USB ports (2.5W per port), giving it an efficiency of 700 Mhash/J. Edit: BFL has since then confirmed that the Jalapeno will be powered by 2 USB ports.
The 167 Mhash/J number at 130nm indicates that 668 Mhash/J should be possible by merely scaling down the design to 65nm (because 65nm is theoretically 4x more power efficient than 130nm as efficiency is linearly proportional to the transistor junction area), confirming my BFL estimate of 700 Mhash/J. Furthermore, it is known that BFL pre-sold $250k of SC devices in the first day, making it almost certain that they can cover the NRE cost for developing at 65nm which is only $500k. (And on top of pre-order revenues, BFL also claim to have received VC capital.)
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