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Quote from: Ceyflix-Rez on April 30, 2021, 01:11:08 PM

If you can get your hands on RTX 3060ti they make sense more than RTX3070 because their performance is the same but 3060ti use less power and more cooler when working, try staying in between most powerful cards and the weak cards if you don't want to deal with heats

Thank you Ceyflix-Rez. I have bought a commercial Mitsubishi AC so heat it's not a problem but less heat means less AC needed so it's good to save money on electricity cost!

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Hello,

I get chance at low price to buy one display card.
1) 3060Ti with Price USD 900
2) 3060 with Price USD 680

As I know 3060Ti about 60Mh/s while 3060 only 48Mh/s
Which one should I/you would buy?

Is nVidia going to nerf 3060 hashrate? I am nervous... Huh

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Quote from: Didz on April 29, 2021, 12:08:30 PM

Quote from: Hotdog Vendor on April 29, 2021, 06:19:45 AM

I got 1x Gigabye Gaming OC 3070 runs 62.88mh/s at 124w, then 2x Gigabyte Aorus 3070 one runs 63mh/s at 121w and the other runs 62.9mh/s at 124w in Pheonixminer.
All up in old as 1366 mobo and first gen I7 cpu (ie not power efficent) runs 490w from wall.

The Gaming OC runs so cool thou like 43-44c just with autofan speed, the Aorus one I have to put to 65% and other to 67% fan speed just to keep them at 49-50c.
All 3 cards really quite compared to some thou.

I heard that I should avoid Gigabyte GPUs, it seems you don't have any issues with them?

Nah no problems at all, plus the 2x Aorus i got 4yr warranty on, the GamingOC i got 2nd hand off mate so was too late to claim the 4yr.
Today was fairly hot so the Gaming OC got to 50c and the others to 52c. Turned the fans up on the 2x Aorus just for 1/2 the day.

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If you can get your hands on RTX 3060ti they make sense more than RTX3070 because their performance is the same but 3060ti use less power and more cooler when working, try staying in between most powerful cards and the weak cards if you don't want to deal with heats

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Quote from: Didz on April 30, 2021, 12:34:14 PM

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Quote from: FP91G on April 29, 2021, 08:29:58 AM

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage! Undecided

A youtuber claimed that GPU can still be purchased at good price on best buy somehow and there is another youtuber (lady) that but 12x RTX3070 through best buy too, I don't know how they pull the stunt or trick, where is philipma? I'm guessing I can get an answer from you about this

Apparently people are camping in front of Micro Center shops in the US to have the chance to buy one new GPU model. I would be really surprised that you can buy 12x RTX3070 on Best Buy plus if I am not wrong, when you shop online on Best Buy you have a limit of number of GPU you can buy so it would be astonishing that you can buy 12x RTX3070 in a Best Buy shop.

Well if his cousin or brother or dear friend works for Best Buy it can be done.

I manage to fight my way past the Best Buy bots and get a 3090 for 1850 usd . Was supposed to come to the store on a Saturday . Sat morning when due they said we are sorry we are canceling your order.

Having had people in my family work for Best Buy I know what clerks do at stores. When a monster hot item come in they call a friend and say I will bring the item out and put it on a display shelf you grab it and go pay for it.

And they get a 3300 ebay prices 3090 for 1850.

I went to Best Buy's blogs and complained. They offered me a 50 dollar gift card. I said the story above and they offered me a 100 dollar gift card.

So I am pretty sure that the guy claiming to get 12 crds does it like I describe.

Or he has 50 bots doing it for him. What ever.

My position on Best Buy is they owe me about 3300-1850 = 1450- 100 = 1350 in moral court.

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Thank you everyone for your participation in my topic. I feel much more reassured now to slowly buy my new mining rig with RTX 3070 GPUs. This forum rocks!!!

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Quote from: Daodex on April 29, 2021, 12:57:10 PM

Quote from: Didz on April 29, 2021, 12:23:54 PM

Quote from: FP91G on April 29, 2021, 08:29:58 AM

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage! Undecided

A youtuber claimed that GPU can still be purchased at good price on best buy somehow and there is another youtuber (lady) that but 12x RTX3070 through best buy too, I don't know how they pull the stunt or trick, where is philipma? I'm guessing I can get an answer from you about this

Apparently people are camping in front of Micro Center shops in the US to have the chance to buy one new GPU model. I would be really surprised that you can buy 12x RTX3070 on Best Buy plus if I am not wrong, when you shop online on Best Buy you have a limit of number of GPU you can buy so it would be astonishing that you can buy 12x RTX3070 in a Best Buy shop.

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Quote from: rdluffy on April 30, 2021, 05:08:12 AM

Quote from: Commie on April 30, 2021, 03:44:12 AM

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

Maybe I didn't explain well Commie, sorry

I have 3080 too, making 99Mhs with 240w on the wall, it's a beast for sure, but my point is: 3080s are hotter than 3060ti and 3070, the memory on 3080s and even 3090s are hard to keep cool
In this thread you can check: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5287329
A lot of people have problems with hashrate drop

Agreed, heat is an issue. Big one. My cards run at 96-98C mem junction temps (after thermal pads change). That's high, but then I live in tropics, no choice. Maybe I will go for immersion cooling once I have 20-30 of them, but it might take a while LOL

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Quote from: Commie on April 30, 2021, 03:44:12 AM

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

Maybe I didn't explain well Commie, sorry

I have 3080 too, making 99Mhs with 240w on the wall, it's a beast for sure, but my point is: 3080s are hotter than 3060ti and 3070, the memory on 3080s and even 3090s are hard to keep cool
In this thread you can check: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5287329
A lot of people have problems with hashrate drop

While with 3060ti and 3070 there's no such problems, the point on my post:

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doesn't get too hot like 3080s

I'm just talking about 3080 heat

And I continue to recommend 3060ti and 3070, easier to find, easier to deal with power, less PSU cables, no hashrate drop, both are great to make a 6 card rig

But of course I like 3080, 100Mhs is awesome in one card

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I prefer cards in middle wattage consumption like 100-200watts.

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Quote from: mak013 on April 30, 2021, 03:55:32 AM

This is just one of the choices. I prefer low and medium level GPUs. With top GPUs we are getting problems with PSU and cooling. And if 1 rig is down - it becomes a big problem. But on the other hand - saving space and top GPUs for a long time. Everyone choose the way that is better for him.

Yeah and that's exactly why I didn't want to derail this thread by further evaluating my reasons, just briefly mentioned them Wink

We're talking about power efficiency here, after all.

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Quote from: Commie on April 30, 2021, 03:44:12 AM

Quote from: rdluffy on April 28, 2021, 09:02:54 PM

RTX 3070 and 3060ti are almost the same in ETH, and yes, both are the best hashrate per watt available

I have both
3060ti - 61.10Mhs using 130w on the wall
3070 - 60.19 using 134w on the wall

I never reached 115w on the wall

Both are good cards, doesn't get too hot like 3080s, easy to reach at least 60Mhs, will have a great resale value
For me, 3060ti is a little better because of the price, which is supposed to be cheaper than 3070, but with this insame market, I think both have the same price, and with both you'll have a great rig in terms of efficiency

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

This is just one of the choices. I prefer low and medium level GPUs. With top GPUs we are getting problems with PSU and cooling. And if 1 rig is down - it becomes a big problem. But on the other hand - saving space and top GPUs for a long time. Everyone choose the way that is better for him.

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Quote from: rdluffy on April 28, 2021, 09:02:54 PM

RTX 3070 and 3060ti are almost the same in ETH, and yes, both are the best hashrate per watt available

I have both
3060ti - 61.10Mhs using 130w on the wall
3070 - 60.19 using 134w on the wall

I never reached 115w on the wall

Both are good cards, doesn't get too hot like 3080s, easy to reach at least 60Mhs, will have a great resale value
For me, 3060ti is a little better because of the price, which is supposed to be cheaper than 3070, but with this insame market, I think both have the same price, and with both you'll have a great rig in terms of efficiency

Sorry mate but no, yours are not absolutely the best. I just compared your numbers with 2 of my 3080s I have. One consumes 241W, another 220W, both work stable for months giving around 100.7 MH/s. According to my calculations efficiency is 0.42 - 0.46 MH/w, which is the same or slightly above your cards. I want to increase it further by playing with downvolting, but that's another topic.

I prefer having top cards to save on rig space, plus their liquidity in the future will be way better (as my 1080Ti's have already proven).

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Quote from: Didz on April 29, 2021, 12:23:54 PM

Quote from: FP91G on April 29, 2021, 08:29:58 AM

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage! Undecided

A youtuber claimed that GPU can still be purchased at good price on best buy somehow and there is another youtuber (lady) that but 12x RTX3070 through best buy too, I don't know how they pull the stunt or trick, where is philipma? I'm guessing I can get an answer from you about this

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Quote from: mak013 on April 29, 2021, 10:52:36 AM

Quote from: sxemini on April 29, 2021, 07:07:26 AM

Quote from: mak013 on April 29, 2021, 06:49:43 AM

Quote from: sxemini on April 29, 2021, 06:28:36 AM

RX 5600 44mh with 80 watts = 0,55mh per watt
RX 5500 28.5 with 50 watts = 0,57 per watt

but thats are stats from other users, i don´t own 1 of that cards to test, but it can be. Maybe someone with this cards can tell us more?

It seems that you are telling us watts from HiveOS. I have the same but there is one problem - if you want to get true values - use wattmeter. In fact it is 100-110wt for 5600 and 75-80wt for 5500.

About the best efficiency - 3060ti-3070 are the best for today. They easy to config and don`t need any flashing as RX5600.

Nope, many users tell that. But i don´t own one of this cards so it can be higher. Cheesy

You have tested an RX5600 or RX5500?

It means only one thing - we have lots of newbies that don`t pay electricity bills. I have such GPUs and tested it with wattmeter that`s why i know what i`m talking about. In RaveOS, HiveOS NVIDIA GPUs shows about the truth(but even with NVIDIA you have make some work to show true values) but AMD have huge difference between mining OS and wattmeter.

Agree it's important to have a power meter but when you go above 15A you cannot use these usual model you plug on the wall you have to use a PDU with a power meter integrated or a box meter which you need an electrician to install.

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Quote from: FP91G on April 29, 2021, 08:29:58 AM

3070, 3060ti and RX5700, RX5600, RX5500 are the best GPUs for Ethereum mining. In my country, these cards are not sold in shops, and the RX5700 seems to have been discontinued. But the profit may change due to a change in the Ethereum algorithm and an increase in the network hashrate.
RTX 3070 are very expensive, you need to consider how long this energy efficiency will pay off

FP91G unless I am wrong you cannot (maybe for exceptions) find a GPU in any shop in the world, most of them are sold out, you have to purchase them online. I live in Canada and made few shops and they all told me they are sold out and some of them have a waiting list starting from December and some stop taking new names. It's a world wide shortage! Undecided

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Quote from: sxemini on April 29, 2021, 06:28:36 AM

RX 5600 44mh with 80 watts = 0,55mh per watt
RX 5500 28.5 with 50 watts = 0,57 per watt

but thats are stats from other users, i don´t own 1 of that cards to test, but it can be. Maybe someone with this cards can tell us more?

Yes this is why that I don't rely on the stats you can find on websites like https://www.stelareum.io/en/mining/gpu.html or https://minerstat.com/hardware/nvidia-gtx-1650 but I guess these are good estimates.

I think for $100 or $200 more you better buy GTX 1660 Super instead of RX 5500 XT which has few mega hash rate less to mine ETH.

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Quote from: Hotdog Vendor on April 29, 2021, 06:19:45 AM

I got 1x Gigabye Gaming OC 3070 runs 62.88mh/s at 124w, then 2x Gigabyte Aorus 3070 one runs 63mh/s at 121w and the other runs 62.9mh/s at 124w in Pheonixminer.
All up in old as 1366 mobo and first gen I7 cpu (ie not power efficent) runs 490w from wall.

The Gaming OC runs so cool thou like 43-44c just with autofan speed, the Aorus one I have to put to 65% and other to 67% fan speed just to keep them at 49-50c.
All 3 cards really quite compared to some thou.

I heard that I should avoid Gigabyte GPUs, it seems you don't have any issues with them?

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Quote from: Looper_U on April 29, 2021, 12:45:03 AM

True definitely of efficiency are the RTX cards, my gtx1660 super is doing 32mh with 75watts and RTX3070 doing 61mh at 132watts, the bigger cards are more power efficiency all the way, this is not just a good time to build a mining rig if your I'd have build 8x RTX3070 mining rig but I will wait for drops in GPU value

I think to build a 8 X RTX3070 mining rig you need 2 PSU or one PSU higher than 1300W?

8 X RTX3070 => 8 X 115W = 920W + the power for the other components maybe around 100-150W + you have to apply the 80% rule + a small margin in case for voltage sag.

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Quote from: rdluffy on April 28, 2021, 09:02:54 PM

RTX 3070 and 3060ti are almost the same in ETH, and yes, both are the best hashrate per watt available

I have both
3060ti - 61.10Mhs using 130w on the wall
3070 - 60.19 using 134w on the wall

I never reached 115w on the wall

Both are good cards, doesn't get too hot like 3080s, easy to reach at least 60Mhs, will have a great resale value
For me, 3060ti is a little better because of the price, which is supposed to be cheaper than 3070, but with this insame market, I think both have the same price, and with both you'll have a great rig in terms of efficiency

I think with the new Core Clock Lock support for Nvidia feature from HiveOS released April 13 2021 you can get 115w on the wall for your 3070. The new feature allows to reduce the power consumption significantly without losing hashrate.
https://forum.hiveos.farm/t/system-changelog-and-news/11778/41

With that new feature my RTX 2060 was using before 124W at 31.46 MH/s and now it's using 86 W at 32.18 MH/s (it increased its hash rate).

Pretty amazing!

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