Topic: Best GPU's For Mining? (Read 74440 times)

XMR rigs my friend, my speciality these days since i sold all my nvidia rigs and built monero rigs  ryzen 1800x as processor (they hash better then GPUs if you count electricy usage) and then rx580 8gb for GPUs, cheap and good. Vegas are more powerful but alot more expensive.

You will not get more RX 580 now. The price of altcoin has risen. 

Will the 7990 good for the new PoW XMR algorithm?

I’m planning to get more rx 580’s when people panic sell. My favorites for mining eth when ot comes too cash vs performance.

I would say it depends on how cheap you can get the GPU.

From a price/performance ratio the market value of cards is pretty flat. You can get a 1080Ti for about 2.5x the cost of a 1060 6GB. You can get a 1070 for 1.5x the 1060, and a 1070Ti for a little more. The power draw on the cards with GDDR5X is higher for the performance than are those on GDDR5 and the number of algorithms they run seem to be more restricted for GDDR5X as well.

I don't have any 1080ti's, but I do have a bunch of Titan X Pascal cards. They will not mine ETH and consume more power than the 1070s or 1060s on shared algorithms.

1070 price is pretty elevated for the samples that are out there. eVGA 1060s are decent if you get them direct from eVGA. The $309 6GB model works quite well for me. Just have to be ready with your card for purchase as soon as the stock notice comes in.

For a dual purpose card might as well get the 1070ti. A bit more expensive, has enough power for most usage scenarios. If you want to run more intense graphics then get a 1080ti.

For just mining and no other use the 1060 is the easiest to get and build up in numbers. A motherboard that can support 12 is easy to find. A single 1600W power supply will run all of them or get 2 800W PSUs which is how mine are setup. I grabbed motherboards with two 24 pin connectors so it is really easy to run two PSUs. Two 800W PSUs are quite a bit cheaper than a single 1600W.

If you are more interested in ETHash type coins then 8GB 570s or 580s are good. Maybe after the cryptonote7 protocol goes live we will see profits from Vega come back.

The 1080Ti is most efficient for large rigs. However, it is expensive.

An other option is to donating your GPU computing power (and get MEDIC coins rewards) to support protein folding at home project of Stanford University through MEDIC Coin's folding at home initiative.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-medic-coin-foldinghome-gpu-mining-masternode-coin-2753447

I think the PSU is about 1250W max for reasonable price. So 8 GPU is the max if you want to play safe.

The amd Radeon series seems to be the most effective miners for Xmr and ethereum mining.

Minimum of 9 cards imho.

Agree with your logic in terms of resources. However 6 card rigs are a waste. With the windows limitations now gone it’s very easy to run 9-12 cards per rig.

It's recommended to buy single more expensive because it will save more resources like POWER SUPPLY, RAM MEMORY and CPU.
Example x12 GTX 1060 you would need 2 rigs - 6 cards each rig but you would need to buy 2 power supply, 2 RAM memory, 2 CPU and 2 montherboards
VS
6 GTX 1080TI you will make 1 rig - 2 power supply, 1 RAM memory, 1 CPU and less cables in your home. You also need to consider the temperature 12 cards vs 6 cards + space in your room.

Honestly it's a crap shoot, but AMD cards are so much easier to MOD, since the BIOS are locked for all GTX 10 series cards.  If you have the time and wisdom to play with nVidia GPUs, I tend to get better results on my 1060 6GB than on either my RX 580 4GB or 8GB cards.  They all ride about the same, but since I have more control over the machine with the 1080 & RX 580's, it produces about 10-15% more hashes average.

I am not even trying to distinguish between brands, much less models here.  Just speaking in generalizations.  If we all could get Titan V cards for the price we USED to pay for RX 480's, we would be golden!

If you look from the green it's 1080ti
And from the reds then 580 ..

It all will come to you and what you prefer . Go to whattomine and make the calculations you need . But getting 2 cheaper cards in most cases will give you  a little more hash than 1 card . The numbers will be different from model to another , Always remember getting one card will always safe you space for another .

hey guys, im new to this forum so please don't judge me if im in the wrong forum section.
im into crypto since about 6 months now and thinking of getting into mining Ethereum or bitcoin. I would be ready to put about 3000$ into equipment.
Could anyone please tell me,
1. would it be profitable? after what time period would I see my first "real" gains? (so without the 3k + electricity (I live in Austria))
2. what would you recommend me to mine?

thanks for your help!

Hi.. I've now a couple of MSI GTX 1070 with Samsung memory onboard. Two months ago was with 2 GTX 1060. I confirm you point of view... With the 2 1060, using Claymore, the total hashrate was +/- 50MH/s, power consumption was 260W to the wall. Now the 2 1070 give me 66.5 with Claymore, power 320W... 

Just a question for some of you.. Using Nicehash you keep the same setup of Claymore miner to optimize Ether or do you have a different setup? For setup I mean TDP xx%, Core clock, etc...

I have around $2400 USD I can spend on Amazon, any recommendations on the best allocation for it? Would I be better off buying multiple cheaper GPUs? Or spending more on a single more expensive one?

Search on you tube, i find it there, i see video in my local lang, think you can find in your native also

GPU is really not easy to buy at the moment :O