Hi
I just wanted to check how my msi gtx 1070 armor OC works with Etherum mining
I have overclocked only GPU RAM to 4475 Mhz ( by +675) ( 2 days of stable mining work), full speed fan temp 56 degrees C .
power 75% of TDP according to GPU-Z
below example of hashrate
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:05 - New job from eth-eu.pool.sexy:9009
ETH - Total Speed: 30.591 Mh/s, Total Shares: 780, Rejected: 0, Time: 14:02
ETH: GPU0 30.591 Mh/s
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:13 - New job from eth-eu.pool.sexy:9009
ETH - Total Speed: 30.372 Mh/s, Total Shares: 780, Rejected: 0, Time: 14:02
ETH: GPU0 30.372 Mh/s
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:19 - New job from eth-eu.pool.sexy:9009
ETH - Total Speed: 29.531 Mh/s, Total Shares: 780, Rejected: 0, Time: 14:02
ETH: GPU0 29.531 Mh/s
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:24 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 0)
ETH: Share accepted (93 ms)!
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:26 - New job from eth-eu.pool.sexy:9009
ETH - Total Speed: 28.799 Mh/s, Total Shares: 781, Rejected: 0, Time: 14:02
ETH: GPU0 28.799 Mh/s
ETH: 06/08/17-20:59:31 - New job from eth-eu.pool.sexy:9009
ETH - Total Speed: 29.283 Mh/s, Total Shares: 781, Rejected: 0, Time: 14:02
ETH: GPU0 29.283 Mh/s
Topic: Is GTX 1070 a good GPU miner, and what coin would it be most efficient for? (Read 5917 times)
June 08, 2017, 02:09:08 PM
January 02, 2017, 04:44:05 AM
Nvidia cards are cooler, were easier to tweak for me ;p
AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
it's only problem with shitty laptops and old amd cards. Anyways why does the temperature even count? AMD can run over 80°C without any problems. AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
January 02, 2017, 04:08:39 AM
Nvidia cards are cooler, were easier to tweak for me ;p
AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
My MSI RX470s are cold as ice and very quiet.. very easy to tweak it too via watttool.
January 02, 2017, 04:05:33 AM
Nvidia cards are cooler, were easier to tweak for me ;p
AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
AMD cards are hot, more noise from the fans and better ROI, for sure.
January 02, 2017, 03:58:18 AM
Nvidia carries a HUGE resale value compared to AMD; the gaming market soaks them up a lot more readily when it comes time to sell them.
It will change soon, when kids realise nvidia is crap in dx12 and vulkan. January 02, 2017, 03:51:15 AM
are you using the nicehash miner? several members report that hash/wattage you can check yourself, i'm not the only one doing it, EWBF miner last version also give you roughly the same hash
what i know about the 470 is that here(europe) it cost half of a 1070 and not less like on newegg
...eth will die soon, just take a look at the new proposal block reward to diminish the miner income, block will be 1.5 instead of 5
also funny how we can't rely on zcash only(a single coin) but amd can rely on eth only...
i can't really see how amd is better here, doing a bit more than half the hash for half the price is not what i call better
what i know about the 470 is that here(europe) it cost half of a 1070 and not less like on newegg
...eth will die soon, just take a look at the new proposal block reward to diminish the miner income, block will be 1.5 instead of 5
also funny how we can't rely on zcash only(a single coin) but amd can rely on eth only...
i can't really see how amd is better here, doing a bit more than half the hash for half the price is not what i call better
Even if ETH dies ETC will live on pow.. so AMD can rely on ETC, XMR, ZEC, ZCL at the minimum.
1070 looks pretty good on ZEC though.. if it could do good on XMR as well I'd build a 6x1070 rig.
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January 02, 2017, 03:38:20 AM
plenty of profitability with other algos.... I am personally running my nvidia gear on skein coins for the last month. Payout has been steady and consistent.
If you have the mindset that only zcash and ETH are worth mining, please refer to the above posters comments about choosing AMD over Nvidia.
Nvidia carries a HUGE resale value compared to AMD; the gaming market soaks them up a lot more readily when it comes time to sell them.
If you have the mindset that only zcash and ETH are worth mining, please refer to the above posters comments about choosing AMD over Nvidia.
Nvidia carries a HUGE resale value compared to AMD; the gaming market soaks them up a lot more readily when it comes time to sell them.
January 02, 2017, 03:04:30 AM
are you using the nicehash miner? several members report that hash/wattage you can check yourself, i'm not the only one doing it, EWBF miner last version also give you roughly the same hash
what i know about the 470 is that here(europe) it cost half of a 1070 and not less like on newegg
...eth will die soon, just take a look at the new proposal block reward to diminish the miner income, block will be 1.5 instead of 5
also funny how we can't rely on zcash only(a single coin) but amd can rely on eth only...
i can't really see how amd is better here, doing a bit more than half the hash for half the price is not what i call better
what i know about the 470 is that here(europe) it cost half of a 1070 and not less like on newegg
...eth will die soon, just take a look at the new proposal block reward to diminish the miner income, block will be 1.5 instead of 5
also funny how we can't rely on zcash only(a single coin) but amd can rely on eth only...
i can't really see how amd is better here, doing a bit more than half the hash for half the price is not what i call better
January 01, 2017, 06:31:07 PM
I wasn't considering "special offers".
Keep in mind that AMD DROPPED the MSR on the RX 470 recently and that pricing is drifting down to that new level pretty fast.
No, NOT all 1070 can do 380 sol/s at 100 watts.
In fact, NONE of mine can do so - most will do 380 but not at 100 watts or even close, more like 350 at that power level at BEST for the best ones I have.
BOTH of my RX 470s with STOCK bios do a little better than the 200 sol/s you quote though - despite being ref-type designs.
A BIOS upgrade would probably put them at more like 220.
Probably depends on the memory type at a guess - I remember you talking about some much higher ETH mining hashrates too that almost nobody else can manage, and a LOT higher memory clocks than I've seen any of MY cards manage.
I also suspect you paid quite a bit more than the $380 I've paid for most of my 1070 cards in order to end up with those "good memory" cards you keep trying to push as "the norm for 1070 performance".
Yes, there are a couple of other algorythms the 1070 is good at - lyrar2 seems to be the closest to ZCash profitibility on them at this point - but none of those have the sheer mass hashrate of ZCash and would quickly collapse if a large amount of hashrate had to move TO them once the zcash price fall goes far enough to make it unprofitable.
AMD cards on the other hand can move to ETH/ETC which are already a lot larger on hashrate, and XMR as well which is pretty large on total hashrate as well and can soak the increase a bit easier.
I have no idea where "here" is, I have to look at the pricing where *I* am at.
As I've said in many other posts, you have to crunch YOUR numbers for YOUR situation - and the situation where *I* am at based on the hard numbers *I* have to work with is that the 1070 is NOT a good choice for a dedicated mining rig vs the RX 470/480, especially since I am NOT seeing the kind of ZCash performance you are claiming out of the 1070 but am seeing BETTER performance out of the the 470.
Keep in mind that AMD DROPPED the MSR on the RX 470 recently and that pricing is drifting down to that new level pretty fast.
No, NOT all 1070 can do 380 sol/s at 100 watts.
In fact, NONE of mine can do so - most will do 380 but not at 100 watts or even close, more like 350 at that power level at BEST for the best ones I have.
BOTH of my RX 470s with STOCK bios do a little better than the 200 sol/s you quote though - despite being ref-type designs.
A BIOS upgrade would probably put them at more like 220.
Probably depends on the memory type at a guess - I remember you talking about some much higher ETH mining hashrates too that almost nobody else can manage, and a LOT higher memory clocks than I've seen any of MY cards manage.
I also suspect you paid quite a bit more than the $380 I've paid for most of my 1070 cards in order to end up with those "good memory" cards you keep trying to push as "the norm for 1070 performance".
Yes, there are a couple of other algorythms the 1070 is good at - lyrar2 seems to be the closest to ZCash profitibility on them at this point - but none of those have the sheer mass hashrate of ZCash and would quickly collapse if a large amount of hashrate had to move TO them once the zcash price fall goes far enough to make it unprofitable.
AMD cards on the other hand can move to ETH/ETC which are already a lot larger on hashrate, and XMR as well which is pretty large on total hashrate as well and can soak the increase a bit easier.
I have no idea where "here" is, I have to look at the pricing where *I* am at.
As I've said in many other posts, you have to crunch YOUR numbers for YOUR situation - and the situation where *I* am at based on the hard numbers *I* have to work with is that the 1070 is NOT a good choice for a dedicated mining rig vs the RX 470/480, especially since I am NOT seeing the kind of ZCash performance you are claiming out of the 1070 but am seeing BETTER performance out of the the 470.
January 01, 2017, 04:41:49 PM
If you already have a 1070, it's definitely worth mining with it.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
470 at CURRENT pricing is closer to 40% of the cost of the 1070 not half AND HAS BEEN DROPPING due to competition from the 1060, *AND* is quite a bit more efficient on algorythms OTHER THAN the one used by ZCash - making yourself reliant on ONE specific coin to achieve ROI is a fools game when the coin has shown NO staying power on price and as many core ISSUES as ZCash has had.
Insisting on the 470 mining ZCash *right now* when it's more profitable on ETH and a pair of 470s ON ETH are pulling in about 20% MORE than a single 1070 on ZEC blows your numbers completely away.
Most miners are NOT going to lock themselves into a less profitable coin for any significant length of time, and that doesn't even factor coin-switching multipools into account.
System cost ends up being at best the same per hash, in MY calculations, on 4 card rigs - you can't get away with or COUNT on that "100 watt for 280 sol/s" figure on ZCash for the 1070 as MOST 1070 don't achieve that, more like 140 watts based on MY stable of various 1070 cards, so you DO end up having to put a beefier PS on a 1070 rig - especially if you don't COUNT on ZCash being profitable for the long run (which is the SMART play).
For the 1070 to become competative on XMR, it would have to achieve closer to 1400 h/s not 900 h/s - 470s RIGHT NOW are widely posted to be achieving more than 700 h/s on that coin.
I can see a faint possibility of that - the 750ti manages 250 - but if XMR is as memory-hard as ETH is that's gonna be a pipe dream.
40% is still bad when you factor density
also you should not consider newegg special offer, not everyone can buy from there, here they are at half the price
a 1070 is also better at other algo like spread and lbry so it's not about zcash only
and yes the 1070 can do 380 sol 100watt, i've tested it with my rig(6 x 1070), 700 watt at the wall and additional 3 x 140mm fan, you can see other people with the same report
January 01, 2017, 04:23:38 PM
If you already have a 1070, it's definitely worth mining with it.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
470 at CURRENT pricing is closer to 40% of the cost of the 1070 not half AND HAS BEEN DROPPING due to competition from the 1060, *AND* is quite a bit more efficient on algorythms OTHER THAN the one used by ZCash - making yourself reliant on ONE specific coin to achieve ROI is a fools game when the coin has shown NO staying power on price and as many core ISSUES as ZCash has had.
Insisting on the 470 mining ZCash *right now* when it's more profitable on ETH and a pair of 470s ON ETH are pulling in about 20% MORE than a single 1070 on ZEC blows your numbers completely away.
Most miners are NOT going to lock themselves into a less profitable coin for any significant length of time, and that doesn't even factor coin-switching multipools into account.
System cost ends up being at best the same per hash, in MY calculations, on 4 card rigs - you can't get away with or COUNT on that "100 watt for 280 sol/s" figure on ZCash for the 1070 as MOST 1070 don't achieve that, more like 140 watts based on MY stable of various 1070 cards, so you DO end up having to put a beefier PS on a 1070 rig - especially if you don't COUNT on ZCash being profitable for the long run (which is the SMART play).
For the 1070 to become competative on XMR, it would have to achieve closer to 1400 h/s not 900 h/s - 470s RIGHT NOW are widely posted to be achieving more than 700 h/s on that coin.
I can see a faint possibility of that - the 750ti manages 250 - but if XMR is as memory-hard as ETH is that's gonna be a pipe dream.
December 31, 2016, 08:55:18 AM
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
At this moment rx 470 is better than gtx 1070 if we talk about ROI.
Power consume is the same.
rx 470 (200$) in eth (29h/s) today give you 1,2usd/day. ROI in 5,5.
GTX 1070 (400$) in zcash (380sol) today give you 1,8/day. ROI in 7,4
Less power exp of course.
my point was about zcash, and there the amd gpu are not better in roi they are worse
we all know that on etheruem nvidia is bad because of the bandwidth but etheruem will die soon, so who care
For me I still prefer GTX 1070 for the reasons you talked about (I am selling R9 fury x bought one year ago to be replaced by GTX 1070), but the choice between both card is disputable.
If sp released the xmr miner @900h/s and above for a GTX 1070, there will be an other win for nvidia.
December 31, 2016, 08:43:41 AM
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
At this moment rx 470 is better than gtx 1070 if we talk about ROI.
Power consume is the same.
rx 470 (200$) in eth (29h/s) today give you 1,2usd/day. ROI in 5,5.
GTX 1070 (400$) in zcash (380sol) today give you 1,8/day. ROI in 7,4
Less power exp of course.
my point was about zcash, and there the amd gpu are not better in roi they are worse
we all know that on etheruem nvidia is bad because of the bandwidth but etheruem will die soon, so who care
December 31, 2016, 08:37:12 AM
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
At this moment rx 470 is better than gtx 1070 if we talk about ROI.
Power consume is the same.
rx 470 (200$) in eth (29h/s) today give you 1,2usd/day. ROI in 5,5.
GTX 1070 (400$) in zcash (380sol) today give you 1,8/day. ROI in 7,4
Less power exp of course.
December 31, 2016, 07:30:36 AM
If you already have a 1070, it's definitely worth mining with it.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
this is wrong how the amd 470 and 480 are beating the 1070 on zcash?
just look at the hashrate, the 1070 can do 380 sol at 100 watt against 200 sol at 90 watt for a 470
even if the 470 cost half of one 1070 it's still not better to go with amd, especially if you are going to have many rig where density matter a lot
also by the look how people consider cost/hash they always forget that 4 rig are always far better than 8 rig(if they both perform similar, 380 sol x 6 x 4 vs 200 sol x 6 x 8 ), because you save on computer components that do not mine so you save on cost/hash in the end
not to mention that you save on the consumption as well, 700 watt x 4 rig against 600 watt per 8 rig...no question nvidia is far better, amd is trash at the moment on zec
December 31, 2016, 06:45:59 AM
If you already have a 1070, it's definitely worth mining with it.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
I meant more recent in term of mining usage sorry i wasn't accurate. Also from what i see on wikipedia, they were both released in june 15 days apart, that's not alot
December 31, 2016, 06:41:06 AM
If you already have a 1070, it's definitely worth mining with it.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
If you do not, it is NOT competative on the basis of income generated vs. cost of card - even on ZEC which is currently it's BEST income generation, the AMD RX 470 and 480 beat it fairly easily on a cost/hash basis.
If you plan to use the card for something OTHER THAN mining on the long term, it can me worth mining with it to help pay for it.
It is NOT in fact a more recent card than the RX 480 - the 1070 introduction PREdates the RX480 introduction (much less the 470) by 2-3 months.
December 31, 2016, 04:28:34 AM
If you plan to buy it for mining than no. It would take too long to ROI. Nvidia cards are much more expensive for same performance. If you already have the card and don't care about ROI just want to mine a bit then it would be good
That is right. The main problem is that it is too expensive.
December 31, 2016, 04:20:34 AM
Nvidia card are viable for mining, there is a few algo it's good for (zec/xmr/lbry/and such), and it's far from being optimized atm (no custom bios, very few pascal optimised miner), just look at the improvements of zcash mining over the past few weeks, there is talk XMR revolution will also start soon and with nicehash opening their code, i bet that in 6 months or less we will have dozen of optimised nvidia miners.
Their base price is higher that's true, but it's also a much more recent card than 470/480 so as far as optimisation go especially because nvidia miner base is so small there is huge gap to be filled, AMD current cards are nearing their max efficiency.
Also in the long run (like 2 years) they have a much better electricity/performance ratio and also a better resale value (nvidia dominate the gaming market) most 1070/1080 have 3 to 4 years warranty so even in 2 years, i can resell them if i want to @ at least 50-60% of their original value after i roied them 1.5/2x and will have 1 to 2 years warranty left so it'll be easy sell.
I think both solutions have their merits. But don't give nvidia dead already for mining, it has just started, believe me
To answer to OP, yes zcash is the thing right now, but if we get a new XMR miner (there is one close to be released it seems) it's going to be a very good contender for best nvidia mining for sure
Their base price is higher that's true, but it's also a much more recent card than 470/480 so as far as optimisation go especially because nvidia miner base is so small there is huge gap to be filled, AMD current cards are nearing their max efficiency.
Also in the long run (like 2 years) they have a much better electricity/performance ratio and also a better resale value (nvidia dominate the gaming market) most 1070/1080 have 3 to 4 years warranty so even in 2 years, i can resell them if i want to @ at least 50-60% of their original value after i roied them 1.5/2x and will have 1 to 2 years warranty left so it'll be easy sell.
I think both solutions have their merits. But don't give nvidia dead already for mining, it has just started, believe me
To answer to OP, yes zcash is the thing right now, but if we get a new XMR miner (there is one close to be released it seems) it's going to be a very good contender for best nvidia mining for sure
December 31, 2016, 04:01:26 AM
If you plan to buy it for mining than no. It would take too long to ROI. Nvidia cards are much more expensive for same performance. If you already have the card and don't care about ROI just want to mine a bit then it would be good
440 sols on ZEC @150W - "For the same performance" lol.
To answer the question - yes the gtx 1070 is good for mining. At the moment mine ZEC.
Look at price and performance of amd cards. RX 470 and RX 480 are much better at price/performance ratio. Please ask yourself if Nvidia cards are actually better for mining why great majority still buy amd cards ?
I agree for ETH, but this does not apply for ZEC anymore with the recent nvidia miners. Not to mention that we can expect even more increase of performance.
Looking at long term everyone see ZEC as coin that is failing and will eventually fail. In my mind there is no point in investing at something like that (buying gear that is good for that only)
STFU dude! See for your self here mr inbred - https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc
compare yourself gtx 1070 strix vs rx shit 70 and f***k 80!
Sorry pal but the amd improved in wattage means i give not shit! If its power isn't making the cut!
So do your homework before you shit around with your stupid research!
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