I prefer 3Gb versions cause they are cheaper and have smaller ROI time. The hashrate difference is about 5-10% on Equihash, and I'm not sure mining Ethereum on Nvidia is good idea at all.
Now 3 gigabyte cards are not enough for mining some coins, for example, such as Green. With three gigabytes, you just do not start mining. In a year or a year and a half, six gigabytes will be few. 
Topic: gtx 1060 3GB vs gtx 1060 6GB (Read 13374 times)
3 Go Cards are not a good option any more for Etash as you need at least 4 Go for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic...
Now is 2019 and 2020 is coming up in 3 months.
Considering the cheap price and mining with it, is gtx 1060 3gb still worth it vs 6gb?
Considering the cheap price and mining with it, is gtx 1060 3gb still worth it vs 6gb?
I prefer 3Gb versions cause they are cheaper and have smaller ROI time. The hashrate difference is about 5-10% on Equihash, and I'm not sure mining Ethereum on Nvidia is good idea at all.
They are the same only real difference is resale value of the 6gb is higher and can mine ETH longer, but you shouldnt be mining ETH with NVIDIA cards anyway.
Dang.. Why do yall say that lol. I just set up a mini mining rig (2 1050 TIs right now) and am looking to either add more 1050 TIs or go to 1060 3GBs...
I'm currently mining Ethereum right now on SimpleMining OS and using ethpool and claymore-eth-v10.5.
whattomine.com uses 22.5 mh/s for ethash per card as default (most 3gb cards coming in now are Hynix which doesn't do more than 20 when pushed to the moon). When you use 24 hours calculation the top 5 coins are all equihash. Switch over to 7 days (more accurate) and ETH falls to 7th place.
Also there are coins not mentioned on whattomine.com which in itself is a rough estimate at best.
You have a point, Hynix is not good for ETH but I have only GPUs with Samsung memory. If I take an average on 7 days, ETH comes first and PIRL comes second so it's more or less the same as the daily estimate. It's been like this for months. Like you said, it's only an estimation but at the end of the day, what I get in my wallet is quite close and even higher sometimes.
There may be other coins that are not listed on whattomine but I don't know them so it's difficult to say which one is best.
Which other coin should be performing better on a GTX 1060 ? I could try it to see if it's better than ETH.
if you look purely at current profit, ETH is still among the most profitable coins for this type of card. It's usually a struggle between ETH, PIRL and ZCL. Today it's ETH. GTX 1060 may be less interesting for ETH than a RX type of card but it's still a good performer. With my rig today, PIRL comes first with 41.94$ then comes ETH with 41.32$, then ELLA above 39$ and then all other coins around 33$ and below. I know the theory says that ETH is not the best coin to mine but in my case it's best one of the best for a while. By the way, I simply use whattomine.com.
whattomine.com uses 22.5 mh/s for ethash per card as default (most 3gb cards coming in now are Hynix which doesn't do more than 20 when pushed to the moon). When you use 24 hours calculation the top 5 coins are all equihash. Switch over to 7 days (more accurate) and ETH falls to 7th place.
Also there are coins not mentioned on whattomine.com which in itself is a rough estimate at best.
My argument with why I was going with the 3GB 1060's was that the ETH code is already in testing for PoS. Its estimated that by Nov 2018, the DAG size will be 3GB+ and these cards would no longer work by then. My opinion (and thats all it is), is that PoS will be will be out by then and it won't matter.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
There will be a hybrid phase where POS will verify POW from miners (orphan blocks etc).
Its not like POW will stop as soon as POS kicks in. But I do agree 1060s are better served on other algos than ethash.
if you look purely at current profit, ETH is still among the most profitable coins for this type of card. It's usually a struggle between ETH, PIRL and ZCL. Today it's ETH. GTX 1060 may be less interesting for ETH than a RX type of card but it's still a good performer. With my rig today, PIRL comes first with 41.94$ then comes ETH with 41.32$, then ELLA above 39$ and then all other coins around 33$ and below. I know the theory says that ETH is not the best coin to mine but in my case it's best one of the best for a while. By the way, I simply use whattomine.com.
My argument with why I was going with the 3GB 1060's was that the ETH code is already in testing for PoS. Its estimated that by Nov 2018, the DAG size will be 3GB+ and these cards would no longer work by then. My opinion (and thats all it is), is that PoS will be will be out by then and it won't matter.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
There will be a hybrid phase where POS will verify POW from miners (orphan blocks etc).
Its not like POW will stop as soon as POS kicks in. But I do agree 1060s are better served on other algos than ethash.
My argument with why I was going with the 3GB 1060's was that the ETH code is already in testing for PoS. Its estimated that by Nov 2018, the DAG size will be 3GB+ and these cards would no longer work by then. My opinion (and thats all it is), is that PoS will be will be out by then and it won't matter.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
Either way, I'm doing NeoScrypt.
With 3GB you're not going to be able to dual ETH effectively. Go with the 6GB, it's a better card and will have better future resale value too.
you shouldnt be mining ETH with this anyway
version: zm 0.5.8 ZEC
0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 57 351.39 2.82 124.80 789 / 5 144
1 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 51 328.03 2.77 118.40 704 / 2 125
2 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 46 329.00 2.86 114.87 731 / 3 188
3 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 54 328.61 2.68 122.50 730 / 4 172
Total - 1337.03 2.78 480.58 2954 / 14 1570
For Dagger-Hashimoto HERE https://investoon.com/tools/dag_size
0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 57 351.39 2.82 124.80 789 / 5 144
1 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 51 328.03 2.77 118.40 704 / 2 125
2 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 46 329.00 2.86 114.87 731 / 3 188
3 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 54 328.61 2.68 122.50 730 / 4 172
Total - 1337.03 2.78 480.58 2954 / 14 1570
For Dagger-Hashimoto HERE https://investoon.com/tools/dag_size
I have only 3Gb model and performance is really fine. Some of them are single fan but by using a power limit, temperature remains comfortably below 55°C, some are around 45°.
I got many 6gb and 3gb of Nvidia.
For Zcash performance difference is around %3-4
For ETH preformance difference is around %5 if same memory is used. But usually 6gb comes with Samsung and 3 gb comes with Hynix therefore %15 performance difference on ETH.
If I would buy new, I would buy 6gb because of resale value.
For Zcash performance difference is around %3-4
For ETH preformance difference is around %5 if same memory is used. But usually 6gb comes with Samsung and 3 gb comes with Hynix therefore %15 performance difference on ETH.
If I would buy new, I would buy 6gb because of resale value.
Agree with you. I just bought some MSI 1060 3Gb (Samsung memory) and I totally satisfied.
25.5 Mh/s for ETH, 292 sol/s for ZEC, both tested with power limit 82%.
I got many 6gb and 3gb of Nvidia.
For Zcash performance difference is around %3-4
For ETH preformance difference is around %5 if same memory is used. But usually 6gb comes with Samsung and 3 gb comes with Hynix therefore %15 performance difference on ETH.
If I would buy new, I would buy 6gb because of resale value.
For Zcash performance difference is around %3-4
For ETH preformance difference is around %5 if same memory is used. But usually 6gb comes with Samsung and 3 gb comes with Hynix therefore %15 performance difference on ETH.
If I would buy new, I would buy 6gb because of resale value.
@mediaboy I'm with you, what is it that makes NVIDIA not good for mining ETH? I'm getting 31Mhs stable in a windows 10 rig with 5 EVGA gtx 1070 OC and on unbuntu I have 8 EVGA gtx 1070 OCs pulling 29.9-30.2 Mhs, Linix is slower b/c of the drivers as far as I can figure it out...
I don't figure what the beef is...
I have 10 RX 580s AUSU-dual and Gigabyte- Aurorus with mod BIOS running at 28-29Mhs
These cards run way hotter, use more wattage and are less stable
They are better on the dual coin of decred by a factor of 2.. is that the issue?
I don't figure what the beef is...
I have 10 RX 580s AUSU-dual and Gigabyte- Aurorus with mod BIOS running at 28-29Mhs
These cards run way hotter, use more wattage and are less stable
They are better on the dual coin of decred by a factor of 2.. is that the issue?
Anyone care to state why Ethereum on Nvidia is such a bad idea? Several have parroted that sentiment on this thread but no reasons as to why. I see lots of folks mining ethash coins on Nvidia.
I prefer 3Gb versions cause they are cheaper and have smaller ROI time. The hashrate difference is about 5-10% on Equihash, and I'm not sure mining Ethereum on Nvidia is good idea at all.
They are the same only real difference is resale value of the 6gb is higher and can mine ETH longer, but you shouldnt be mining ETH with NVIDIA cards anyway.
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Im going to use 1060 3gb.
Difference of 3gb and 6gb is only efficiency of ETH?
I want to know situation just NOW.
Im going to use 1060 3gb.
Difference of 3gb and 6gb is only efficiency of ETH?
I want to know situation just NOW.
With 3GB you're not going to be able to dual ETH effectively. Go with the 6GB, it's a better card and will have better future resale value too.
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