Quote from: mxaddict on November 28, 2016, 03:46:41 PM

Quote from: eckmar on November 28, 2016, 03:41:57 PM

Quote from: mxaddict on November 28, 2016, 02:26:49 PM

Quote from: eckmar on November 28, 2016, 02:21:39 PM

Looking at prices in your country, i would go for RX 470. Noticeable difference in speed between 470 and 480 is when 480 have 8gb of memory. Since both of your cards have 4gb it's just not worth it to go with 480s

Now that you bring that up, I have a question:

Which Setup would be better?

6x RX 470 4GB with 1000w PSU
OR
6x RX 480 8GB with 1200w PSU

I would still go for 470, same reason. Overall price of the rig, hashrate you get and power consumption is just not worth it with rx 480s

Quote from: armazingerz on November 28, 2016, 03:34:17 PM

Quote from: eckmar on November 28, 2016, 02:21:39 PM

Looking at prices in your country, i would go for RX 470. Noticeable difference in speed between 470 and 480 is when 480 have 8gb of memory. Since both of your cards have 4gb it's just not worth it to go with 480s

Thank you all for posting!

Do you know why 480 8GB is faster? I'm new mining, and I don't know too much, as far as I understand vram memory is used tu allocate the DAG file, but if DAG file is smaller than 4GB what is the upside?

I can buy RX 480 with 8GB of XFX for 225, SAPPHIRE for 235 or MSI and GIGABYTE for 245, but I read that XFX is not recommendable.

Regards

Well there are multiple sources. Ones say that RX 480 4gb is completely same to RX 480 8gb just with less memory. Other ones say that 480 with 8gb memory can be overclocked higher than 4gb version and you get more performance that way. I remember reading about this on ETH forum. If i find thread link i'll edit this post

Yeah, I'm leaning the way of the 470s right now, but gonna wait until my local parts dealer gives me his pricing, if the difference in price is less than 10% I will go for the 480s, if more than 10% I will go 470s

I can confirm the 480s are faster in the 8GB variant, I have 4 of them right now, They are about 200 Sol/s equihash and 29 Mh/s dagger/eth and I'm sure most 470s are around 27 for dagger and 170-180 for equihash.

Compare price difference with performance gain. I can't do calculations atm, but if performance gain is 20% maybe 20% price increase will work for you. You should also take into consideration power consumption when calculating this