Topic: Nvidia 1060 vs 1070 vs 1080 vs 1080Ti - page 3. (Read 8425 times)

What kind of brand do you buy to mine ?

I would recommend the 1080ti over anything else due to reduced cost you need for mobo risers and general space saving.
I am trying to learn more about vega mining though

It's a hunt for the best price but it's critical for ROI. I'm collecting prices for EU here GTX 1060 but I haven't done it for outside EU. There is not a GTX 1060 below 200€, it's the first time I see this in EU since I have started mining a couple of months ago.

 Must have been a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale, they're showing as "$211.80" and higher now.
 On the other hand, Newegg had a few RX 570 cards at $209 for Black Friday - lowest is back up to $239 as of yesterday.

Totally agree with you, klintistwood!

I've just purchased some P106-100 mining cards to test and really satisfy with the performances and I'm going to build a new mini farm with this card.
Each MSI P106-100 mining card costs around 251$ and average hashrate is about 25.1Mh/s. My 8 cards rig consume ~760W.
As I estimate, basically each P106-100 could earn ~1.9-2$ per day on mining ETH.

The test with 8GPUs, test's duration: 86hrs: Power Limit: 65%, Core: +46, Mem: +740, average hashrate: 25.05Mh/s.

Where are you at that RX 570 and 580 cards are "not available?
Outpriced a bit - still, yes, but that's dropped a LOT the last month.

 At current pricing I'm seeing on Newegg for them, you'd have to find 1060 cards a fair bit UNDER $200 to have a prayer of being competative on hash/$ right now.

I fully agree with you. In theory those RX cards should be better than the GTX 1060 but they are either outpriced or not available, GTX 1060 has become the best alternative for ETH. For ZEC or XMR, that's a different story. I tried my GTX 1060 rig on those currency and even if it's not bad, those cards are not high performing cards for those currencies. Somehow my whole rig was consuming way less power with ZEC and XMR than ETH. For some reason, the algorythm behind doesn't get all the juice from the GTX 1060.

EVGA GTX 1060 (got a couple of those) just went under 200$ now at Amazon: GTX 1060 on Amazon

 It depends on WHAT you are mining.

 1070 ti is the most efficient card at ZEC mining right now with the 1080 a close second (but worse on hash/$ at any setting and the 1070 and 1080 ti are both fairly close on best efficiency OR hash/$).

 For ETH the 1070 matches the 1070 ti hashrate exactly (same memory system on a VERY memory-hard algorithm) and the 1070 blows the 1080 completely out of the water - the 1080 ti beats the 1070 but not by a lot, making the 1070 by far the hash/$ leader of those 4 cards on ETH.
 SOME 1070 cards will mine ETH at 32 Mhash/s but many of them do good to get to 30 - but even at stock clocks they pretty much all do more than 28.
 But for $400 OR MORE they are not cost effective vs a 1060 3GB card that does 22+ for about half the cost, and they are not even CLOSE to cost effective vs RX 470/480/570/580 cards in the UNDER $250 range that can generally get to 28-30 Mhash (with BIOS mods) and are very close on efficiency.

 Then there is Monero, where the Vega 56 is the current king of hash/watt (though some of the NVidia cards can argue there) and *WHEN* you can get one at semi-close to MSRP the hash/$ winner by a LOT.
 Vega 56 is even beating those old "open-compute" refurb Intel servers on hash/$....

 If you can find a Vega 56 for under $500, it currently has an ROI in the 85 day ballpark, and has been consistantly under 105 days for the last couple weeks.

I'm not foolish, it's pure math. You'll have a faster ROI with GTX 1060, on the long run you'll earn more with the GTX 1070. Today 1 GTX 1060 can generate 1.65$/day on ETH while a GTX 1070 will deliver 2.2$ (in the current conditions). At that rate you need 121 days to break even on GTX 1060 while it would take 181 for the GTX 1070 (that's almost 50% more!) and this is without taking power consumption into account because the gap will grow bigger. The GTX 1060 has a better MH/s per W.

When mining you need the fastest ROI because nobody knows until when mining will be profitable. The time to be break even will increase with difficulty increasing so it's not getting any better.

OK, now I have installed / changed my gtx 1070 to gtx 1070ti just paid like 50$ for the change
and I can say that really 1070ti good choice if you can buy it around $450-470 - si it will be like 5%-7% more expensive over gtx1070 - but it massive 15-18% faster then gtx1070.
so you have 10% boost for free, for it is a good value! can recommend

You seems foolish buddy. GTX 1070 8GB card can be produce the 32 MH so you will be able to more income that card alone but if can get the electricity more cheaper in the sense we can make more money with that bro.
Performance wise alone 1080 8GB card is better than 1070. You can check in any site you will find the information states 1070i is the best card to mine.

My experience is the following:

For ETH, the GTX 1060 3GB seems to be the best. I get 24MH/S for 75-80W (for around 200$) while with a 1070 I get 32MH/S for 90W (for around 400$).
Now if you want to mine ZEC for example, the result will be different, a 1080TI would probably be a better option.

About 1080Ti:

I have a rig with 6 of them.
I'm mining Zcash with EWBF's Cuda Miner on Flypool. (Have %2 developer fee but you have an option to disable it.)

They are using 1300 W and have a speed of 4300 H/s, also they are making around 700$/m.  

https://i.imgur.com/hJpqEz3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aOLrxVJ.jpg

And here's my mining rig  : https://i.imgur.com/wSJlx7e.jpg

I have the 1050 TI / 1060 3 & 6 gb / 1070 / 1080 / 1080 ti

Each have their own set backs and advantages, I would recommend 1070 +.

The power draw of the High end 10xx series is pretty impressive hash/watt.

1060 6gb are pretty ideal for initial price / hash , given you get them at a good price, and it has decent memory.

Also, getting the 1070 - 1080 tis VS 1050ti/1060 saves A LOT on space / heat.

Thank you very much for the information. You helped me a lot. I think my choice will be 1070. The fastest return the investments

I've GTX 1080. I mine zec/zencash and have approximately 530-550 Sol/s. 165W 85%tdp. It could be better compared for gtx 1070. Hovewer on other algorithms I see better improvements.
It is not GPU with best efficiency/power usage indicator, but does its job well.

with undervolting to make electricity reasonable
1050 - idk
1060 - eth 22-24, zcash 280ish, 90 watts
1070 - eth 30, zcash 450, 110 watts
1070ti-eth 30, zcash 500, 110 watts
1080 - people mine with these?
1080ti-eth idk, zcash 750, 180-200 watts

1080ti cards are really good in terms of performance. With them, you can work longer and earn a crypto currency, but in the ratio of prices and hash rate they lose

for me, 1080TI, I know.... it's an expensive card but I prefer to manage the minimum number of rigs possible, my time it's a value too .... . What u think about that?.

I vote 1080s.

They are becoming reasonably priced if you can find a deal.
And there's plenty of coins using Equihash / Neoscrypt you can find to turn a profit.