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Docnaster
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 22, 2016, 02:43:14 PM
#108
Quote from: onemd on June 21, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
Quote from: Simpan on June 21, 2016, 10:29:19 AM
The price of Etheruem dropped a lot recently, the difficulty also rises fast. It might not be so profitable to mine in the future.

that is your opinion. But some miners do not agree. They are adding more hashing power to the network now.

The miners ordered the graphics cards and other components before the drop, they had to assemble the mine any way.
onemd
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 21, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
#107
Quote from: Simpan on June 21, 2016, 10:29:19 AM
The price of Etheruem dropped a lot recently, the difficulty also rises fast. It might not be so profitable to mine in the future.

that is your opinion. But some miners do not agree. They are adding more hashing power to the network now.
Simpan
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 21, 2016, 10:29:19 AM
#106
The price of Etheruem dropped a lot recently, the difficulty also rises fast. It might not be so profitable to mine in the future.
onemd
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 10, 2016, 07:12:10 AM
#105
Quote from: QuintLeo on June 10, 2016, 01:43:21 AM
Quote from: Simpan on June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.

 The Nano/Fury line also have very wide bandwidth HBM, yet they mine SLOWER than my 2 generation old R9 290 cards do.

 There's more to the issue than just wide bandwidth.

The PoW algorithm requires more random access of the memory, so the latency is more important than the bandwidth.
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 10, 2016, 01:43:21 AM
#104
Quote from: Simpan on June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.

 The Nano/Fury line also have very wide bandwidth HBM, yet they mine SLOWER than my 2 generation old R9 290 cards do.

 There's more to the issue than just wide bandwidth.
onemd
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 09, 2016, 12:56:01 PM
#103
Quote from: socks435 on June 09, 2016, 12:54:07 PM
Quote from: asrilani on June 09, 2016, 12:31:30 PM
Quote from: Simpan on June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.

The price of the nVidia 1080 is about $900 at the moment. When the Vega comes out, it would be the similar price.
If you choose nvidia its worth of high amount than choosing amd.. better to buy amd its cheap price than intel nvidia.

I shall wait until the end of this month to see the performance of the AMD RX 480. If it is good, I might buy some.
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 09, 2016, 12:54:07 PM
#102
Quote from: asrilani on June 09, 2016, 12:31:30 PM
Quote from: Simpan on June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.

The price of the nVidia 1080 is about $900 at the moment. When the Vega comes out, it would be the similar price.
If you choose nvidia its worth of high amount than choosing amd.. better to buy amd its cheap price than intel nvidia.
asrilani
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 09, 2016, 12:31:30 PM
#101
Quote from: Simpan on June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.

The price of the nVidia 1080 is about $900 at the moment. When the Vega comes out, it would be the similar price.
Simpan
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 07, 2016, 11:47:39 AM
#100
Quote from: asrilani on June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.

It has HBM2, very wide bandwidth. It could be faster than the R9 390. But the price could be very high.
asrilani
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 05, 2016, 08:27:02 AM
#99
Quote from: Amph on June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get

The Vega was originally to be launched early next year, but that has been put forward. If there is big improvement over the 390, I might buy it.
Amph
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 05, 2016, 04:06:50 AM
#98
the real 390 competitor it's vega, the 490, not the 480, but since gpu do not scale in the right way with etheruem, i would not hold much hope for the 490 being the best card to get
EssentialCoin
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 05, 2016, 03:13:35 AM
#97
For the Etheruem  mining, I will not buy the RX480 if the performance is less than 390, even it consumes less power.
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 05, 2016, 02:55:16 AM
#96
Quote from: Anarchy101 on June 04, 2016, 05:00:04 PM
I don't know anything about Eth. mining. Can a asic scrypt miner mine Eth?

 NO.

 An ASIC can only mine the specific algorythm (or algorythmS in the case of the Gridseed/SFARDS dual-algorythm chips) it was made for.

 RX 480 is listed as appx. 8/5 of the memory speed of the R9 390, as I recall.
 Should make up partly for the narrower memory bus, but probably not entirely.

 It's not really AIMED at being an R9 390 replacement though for most usage - more of a R9 280/280x/380/380x range card with some pretensions of arguing with an R9 290/390 on stuff that isn't memory-limited (It'll probably be faster on RC5-72 work than my 290s, but that's a rare "don't care at all about the memory" extreme example).


 It's still GCN supporting OpenCL, should work with current software once the drivers are updated to support the card - might not be "optimised" but should still work.
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 04, 2016, 05:28:37 PM
#95
Ask the R3 consortium
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 04, 2016, 05:23:32 PM
#94
Quote from: Anarchy101 on June 04, 2016, 05:00:04 PM
I don't know anything about Eth. mining. Can a asic scrypt miner mine Eth?

No, gpu only.
Anarchy101
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 04, 2016, 05:00:04 PM
#93
I don't know anything about Eth. mining. Can a asic scrypt miner mine Eth?
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 04, 2016, 01:39:12 PM
#92
Quote from: xingqiaoyin on June 01, 2016, 03:19:36 AM
You guys think we can use Rx 480 with the current mining softwares ?

RX480 has only 256 bit memory bus, that is slower than the 512 bit from the 390. The memory frequency could be higher.
QuintLeo
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 02, 2016, 01:33:42 AM
#91
RX480 looks interesting, if only due to the HUGE memory bandwidth increase - which *hopefully* would translate to good Ethereum mining hashrate.

 Availability is going to be an issue - NVidia is already having availability issues with the GTX 1080, a "mainstream" card like the RX 480 is likely to have even worse such issue....
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
June 01, 2016, 03:19:36 AM
#90
You guys think we can use Rx 480 with the current mining softwares ?
Jistlad
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Re: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining?
May 27, 2016, 09:37:13 AM
#89
Quote from: Amph on May 26, 2016, 02:07:59 AM

buying nano right nano, is a bit stupid, too much in cost, you will pay upfront your electricity

better wait for new amd, so the nano price will be discounted heavily, i'm also sure that the new polaris or vega will match the nano in MH/w

It depends on the mining efficiency of the new AMD cards, if they are not so good, it is better to use Nano now.
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