Ninjastic
PostEdited versionsQuotes to this post
Post
Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Having trouble mining Ethereum
by
Marvell1
on 19/10/2015, 19:20:56 UTC
Quote from: Anon39 on October 19, 2015, 12:53:13 PM
Quote from: Marvell1 on September 16, 2015, 08:59:40 PM
Quote from: numisma on September 16, 2015, 01:23:48 PM
What about the power consumption when mining ethereum? Any info?

Not sure what you mean by this , the power consumption depends on  the card not on the Algo you are mining.  X11 gives you a higer Hash rate than scrypt on the ALgo basis but youre
still pushing the card to its limits so power consumption does not change.

a 280x pulls around 240 at the wall

this is incorrect, the power consumption depends on the Algo, the same card can pull for example 270w on scrypt or less than 200w with other algos. you can find a lot of tests on bitcointalk, like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=694431.msg7916782#msg7916782

Thats because the Algos are not fully optimized for the cards, it depends on how hard you are taxing the cards, if an algo only taxes the GPU's by 30% it will or course use less power but all that means is you are not using the full potential of the card.