even if this were completely true AND available right now - it would be a very difficult task to implement such cards in a mining environment due to the logistics of space - cost of cards and cost of consumption of electricity - and shelving space for the machines ...
Entertaining the idea, I don't see your point. If we disregard the obviously super high hashrate per initial card price and the terribly inefficient looking cooling I'm sure there would be a sweet spot (guessing 3 cards per rig or 6 GPUs).
One of these imaginary rigs would do as much as 4 full 750 Ti rigs if we scale the numbers off the Titan X and the density would surely be welcomed by most miners so I don't see any logistics of space issue. On the contrary, less space, less fans and probably less noise, less components so in overall less points of failure.
Yup, they would just be inefficient as far as hash/$. Everything else would be a benefit and even hash/$ can be more thoroughly worked out through overhead of the host machine or machines via density.
Either way, too expensive even if they have the density. 970/980 still have growing issues that aren't ironed out for some algos compared to 750tis, I'm sure this card wouldn't have a better day as it's rarer. Still neat to think about though.
would density 'really' be the main issue? ...
i ask purely on the basis that we have just put an order in for another 18 x gigabyte 750ti oc lp cards and they are small cards ...
BUT we can only fit 6 to a single motherboard at a time ( unless of course we go with the larger server motherboards - some having up to 12 x gpu in one system ) ...
so density really isnt an issue here - but i think you are spot on with the fiat cost ...
power an heat displacement are the main factors for what we have here - but also density if we were to try and pack in as many in a smaller space ...
i guess im speaking in circles at the moment - as im unsure which way to go with the farm ...
its a large nvidia to amd split at the moment and judging by what is going on in the market - this doesnt look like its going to change in the very near future ... especially concerning power draw ...
in terms of the higher grade cards - the 980ti seems to be getting more attention at the moment - and what seems to be more focus for development ...
i guess we will see over the next 6-12 months ...
may stick with the 750ti cards for the time being - and have an exit plan for an upgrade at a later date to the 980ti when its a reasonable price ... i cant see amd coming out with a low power card in the very near future - unless ive missed something here ...
anyway - back to work for me ...
#crysx