I've asked in other threads, but most miners are fucking retarded. Those of you mining with AMD cards, what's better currently 470, 480 4GB, or 480 8GB?
The responses I received some people don't even know about duel mining or understand it. It's really hard to get a reliable answer out of normal miners. I'd rather not buy a bunch of random cards to get accurate benchmarks. Best I can tell the faster memory helps with Eth, extra stream processors helps with anything not Eth (so guessing 480). The 4GB vs 8GB seems to be more about memory speed then the extra memory, but that's still weirdly up in the air.
Also has anyone heard anything about the release date for the new 1060s with faster memory? Those might be a decent alternative.
Yes but it is probably the only same memory overclocked, so there will probably not be anymore headroom to OC the memory and therefore the difference could be quite small. I have been on the lookout on these cards, but they are nowhere to be found. Otherwise the 1060 6gb is not that good compared to the 3gb version or the 1070 with lowered price.
I am not AMD miner but i have one 470 4gb rig as I have found those the best for the price that I could get them.
Yeah, 470s seem best for pure Eth mining... I don't like shoehorning myself into a corner. Versatility is a pretty big deal when it comes to cryptos, which is why I'm leaning towards 480s more so. The whole 8gb vs 4gb thing seems like it has no firm answer anywhere. I kinda doubt 8gb are 20% faster to justify their 20% higher cost.
1060s just seem like a crappy alternative to 480s, especially considering Claymores support. Right now you can essentially get 50% more hashing power if you buy 480s over 1070s, like 30% if you get 1060s over 1070s.
