The best graphics cards for mining Ethereum

[Kevin Lancaster]

The best graphics cards for mining Ethereum

Following the massive growth of Ethereum in 2017, many consumers have purchased or built mining rigs.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I see the article excluded optimised GPUs, optimum core/mem clock and optimum strap.

 

[JerryMungo]

Nicehash differes with some of those stats:
https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc

RX 570 - 23.61
RX 480 8Gb - 29.04

 

[jannievanzyl]

Hash/Rand is a great metric to use.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Hash/Rand is a great metric to use.

Prices change so rapidly, how could that metric be used?

 

[jannievanzyl]

Prices change so rapidly, how could that metric be used?

Mining is a financial effort, so yes.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Mining is a financial effort, so yes.

What?

If price of BTC changes from 35000 to 40000, your metric of xH/s : Ry won't work.

 

[JerryMungo]

Mining is a financial effort, so yes.

BTC dropped $700 in one day on Wednesday lol. The article would be out of date.
It won't take long to figure it out though, here:
https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc

Just select a card, enter a cost for electricity (around $.16-$2/KWh should be accurate) and hit calculate, then look at the stats at the bottom. Just convert to ZAR using google: 1 BTC in ZAR.

Consider that a PC based rig typically can have 6 cards per Mobo/PSU/RAM/CPU
Then compare with the ASIC miners (Antminers) which are dedicated hardware.

 

[Thor]

Ahhh these articles

 

[CAPS LOCK]

What?

If price of BTC changes from 35000 to 40000, your metric of xH/s : Ry won't work.

Perhaps JvZ meant the cost of the card in rands divided by H/s = hashes per rand spent. IDK.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Perhaps JvZ meant the cost of the card in rands divided by H/s = hashes per rand spent. IDK.

So Hashes/Rand

 

[Swa]

The best graphics cards for mining Ethereum: any you can find from the 380/390/460-580 range.

 

[techead]

Ahhh these articles

I know right... not even the TDP of the cards was mentioned.

Embarrassing really

 

[Thor]

I know right... not even the TDP of the cards was mentioned.

Embarrassing really

Seems like wanting to get on the traffic train without doing the milage.

 

[eye_suc]

What?

If price of BTC changes from 35000 to 40000, your metric of xH/s : Ry won't work.

The responses are kind of like when Siri/Alexa don't know what I'm saying and they just start blabbing about random stuff.

Perhaps the writers are bots too.