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legendary
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July 26, 2014, 06:28:52 PM
#34
It's worthwhile reading around before you ask questions. The wiki is a good place to start.

Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining??

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU

There's even your exact question answered there.

Either way, ASICs mine 1000 times faster than GPUs as well, so both CPU and GPU mining are equally irrelevant in today's bitcoin mining.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOzih6I1zs
legendary
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July 26, 2014, 06:25:26 PM
#33
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

it is pretty much asking which engine is better steam engine or Diesel engine - while you have access to nuclear power. If you want to really get into mining only word you need to know is "ASIC".
newbie
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July 26, 2014, 01:08:11 AM
#32
all not useful
sr. member
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July 24, 2014, 10:56:20 AM
#31
As long as people are still trying to CPU or GPU mine these days, I'm not amazed by people buying BFL gear and don't receive jack. Due diligence is something that gets left behind immediately when people smell the scent of money!
DrG
legendary
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July 24, 2014, 04:44:54 AM
#30
While the search function on this board might be frustrating to use, it does return result in most cases - you just need to do a little sifting.  There have been about 10 threads posted in this forum asking about electricity prices.  A simple search for 1 seconds would have yielded a thread with over 10 pages of responses.

So new people, please use the search.  If you searched and can't find a good answer then feel to ask but please make sure you don't ask questions like that posted in the OP.
hero member
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July 23, 2014, 09:00:08 PM
#29
Please people, do not fees the trolls. If somebody asks this kind of question, that means they have not had patience the read first thing about crypto mining. I really do not understand why anyone would waste time explaining this.

Its always easier to ask then to find information themselves and thats what forum are for Smiley

Well in that case we should be telling every new user to buy BFL Monarchs.

Seriously, if the new users spent 3 hours reading the forums rather than asking how they could make 1 Bitcoin they would know this.

Apathy and laziness should not be encouraged on the forums.

This! I read the forums for months before I had enough knowledge and nerve to ask my first question. And even then I still probably sounded like a dumbass.

But I just can't help myself, lol. There's just something about responding to these type of threads that I find deeply satisfying.
legendary
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July 23, 2014, 06:03:44 PM
#28
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

GPUs can perform 'stupid' operations faster while consuming far less energy in the process. Graphics operations are - computational-wise - rather boring and simple operations. When they're configured to perform the mining algorithms, they outperform CPUs easily. But ASICs are even better. They're specifically designed to do those calculations and consume even less energy.
And the more specific the circuitry becomes, the faster it becomes obsolete and depreciates in value. 
hero member
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July 23, 2014, 03:08:31 PM
#27
Please people, do not fees the trolls. If somebody asks this kind of question, that means they have not had patience the read first thing about crypto mining. I really do not understand why anyone would waste time explaining this.

Its always easier to ask then to find information themselves and thats what forum are for Smiley

Well in that case we should be telling every new user to buy BFL Monarchs.

Seriously, if the new users spent 3 hours reading the forums rather than asking how they could make 1 Bitcoin they would know this.

Apathy and laziness should not be encouraged on the forums.
sr. member
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July 23, 2014, 07:17:31 AM
#26
Please people, do not fees the trolls. If somebody asks this kind of question, that means they have not had patience the read first thing about crypto mining. I really do not understand why anyone would waste time explaining this.

Its always easier to ask then to find information themselves and thats what forum are for Smiley
legendary
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July 23, 2014, 05:39:45 AM
#25
Please people, do not fees the trolls. If somebody asks this kind of question, that means they have not had patience the read first thing about crypto mining. I really do not understand why anyone would waste time explaining this.
legendary
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July 23, 2014, 02:39:06 AM
#24
stay away from btc mining, is a scam a run where who have the faster machine win and you need to re-buy a faster machine every 3 months
legendary
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July 22, 2014, 11:02:23 PM
#23
There are so many factors.  But CPU mining is basically nothing right now. 

GPU really really is dependent on so many things.  Electricity and heat being main two to me.  For me GPU was no longer profitable during because of summer. 

Asics have a much better chance of profitability if you have decent electricity prices and place to put it.  If not hosting is the other option.  I suggest asic's over GPU.
hero member
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July 22, 2014, 10:17:36 PM
#22
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

Buy a ASIC, it is much better..

Your answer was totally unresponsive, bordering on spam IMHO.

The answer is more like, well GPUs can process a lot faster than CPUs so they can calculate more hashes at a faster rate. I don't know about the mathematics about it though but it doesn't seem strange to me. You can tell the GPU to focus on one task while the CPU still has to run your computer and I believe it has to do with memory usage as well. That's why GPU isn't so great for scrypt mining.
sr. member
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July 22, 2014, 09:41:16 PM
#21
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

Buy a ASIC, it is much better..
STT
legendary
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July 22, 2014, 07:57:13 PM
#20
Both CPU and GPU mining are a useless waste of time now.  Here is a link for mining hardware comparison.
GPU worked a year ago but it uses too much power, causes too much heat.  Its just the wrong tool, not that its now unable but its been surpassed by cheaper, more specialised gear. 
  If BTC rose to a million bucks each maybe gfx would be worth using ? (or probably not still)


GPU render the same frame sixty times a second with little difference, it happens to suit crypto hashing process very much better then a cpu because of that.

A cpu tries to cache repeated information and it forms hot lines for fast processing but ultimately it is not intended to do such repetitive tasks.  I believe in both cases they would be called pipelines but cpu instruction set is far more complex which shows up now in the coins done by home users, they tend be far more convoluted then bitcoin.   BTC has jumped to asic which is single minded to that task, where the alt coin devs have taken up x11 or x13 coins which use 13 hash codes to encrypt instead of the btc approach of massive difficulty levels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_pipeline
http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/X11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialization_(functional)
legendary
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July 22, 2014, 11:54:40 AM
#19
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.
Since nobody actually answered your question, let me.  GPU mining is better than CPU mining because a GPU can far better handle parallel processing.

Okay. All mining process is so hardly, that need to with parallel processing, by liner math task. Do i rightly understatnd that??
I'm not sure I entirely understand your reply, but let me give you a bit more detail.

At it's most basic level, mining is nothing more than solving math problems.  Depending on which coin you're mining, the math function might change, but it's still solving a math problem.  It is an extremely repetitive process.  In other words, you have to do the same function over and over and over.  This is why a GPU is faster than a CPU.  What does a GPU do, really?  Execute a ton of similar math problems in parallel to render a graphics object.  It's a purpose-built chip to offload those kinds of transactions from your CPU.

This is why ASICs are even faster.  The mining ASIC has no job in the world OTHER than to solve those specific math problems.  Try to think about it like this:

CPU - has to deal with all kinds of different instructions, from all kinds of different applications.
GPU - has to deal with specific sets of instructions, so it can handle those kinds of instructions faster since it is dedicated to do just them
ASIC - has to deal with only a single kind of instruction, so it is entirely built to do just that extremely fast.
newbie
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July 21, 2014, 08:39:33 AM
#18
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.
Since nobody actually answered your question, let me.  GPU mining is better than CPU mining because a GPU can far better handle parallel processing.

Okay. All mining process is so hardly, that need to with parallel processing, by liner math task. Do i rightly understatnd that??
full member
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July 21, 2014, 04:46:12 AM
#17
How does one set up a CPU mining program? Ive been doing all of my bit coin mining personally, with minimum success, get back to me guys thanks!

Dont waste your time setting up your CPU for bitcoin mining, you will get nothing (few satoshi maybe).
newbie
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July 19, 2014, 10:48:49 AM
#16
Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

in context of bitcoin mining is the waste of time.
if you mistake the board:
re-ask it in altcoins. There are CPU-only coins(gpu have no advantages). Sometimes due to the fact that no one has written gpu-miner. Sometimesdue the algos in the coin.

And if i get PoS/PoW diff right - coins with PoS have the different mining system.


legendary
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July 19, 2014, 03:16:20 AM
#15
Both of them are waste of time because of ASIC..
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