Do you also know if you want to check if a algo is memory limited, you can go into GPUZ and check out the MCU (memory controller unit) and see the load on it?
I think this is wrong. Although I primarily mine using Linux, I have a Windoze box that I use for testing cards. GPU-z appears to show only external bus bandwidth use (to the GDDR), and not the utilization of the bandwidth between the controller and core. In practical terms, a miner kernel may be using 200GB/s of memory bandwidth, but a significant percentage of it can be from the L2 cache. The collision counter tables in SA5 would be an example of this.
Do you have a source for this hypothesis? In all memory restricted algos that correlates to MCU usage. Pretty sure it pertains to any sort of memory overload, bandwidth or bus width...
480 and 1070 have similar TDP. Mining Zcash, their power usage would be similar. 1070 maybe slightly less if you could downclock it, but you can also undervolt the 480. Even if the 1070 is slightly more efficient with optimized Zcash, it doesn't matter much. I make 9x more on ZCash than I spend in power. So it isn't worth spending $400 on card that has same speed as $200 card.
38% wasn't from me. I was using similar method of extrapolation. I get 160S on 480, no overclocks. ~60% MCU on Claymore 6.0.
Their power usage would be similar if they were both being maxed out. Equihash is not a highly optimized algo yet, especially for Nvidia. That's the whole reason we're talking about this. You're trying to make a point of Nvidia not being that more efficient then a AMD with highly unoptimized code, not sure why you assume Nvidia with almost no one working on it is in the same shoes as AMD. Because MBK added Nvidia support he put just as much effort into Nvidia as his AMD endeavors?
What is a 'similiar method'? I was literally talking about MCU usage. Also calling BS on 60% MCU usage. Give me a screenshot, which you didn't provide for Equihash either.
I like how you base assumptions on loose logic. The whole reason I'm not believing Equihash limits are based purely on memory bus width like Dagger (not bus bandwidth). That's what the whole BCT talk thread was.