Post
Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
grrrgrrr
on 11/05/2017, 01:54:29 UTC
hello everyone ,

nvidia volta appeared , and maybe we`ll see the new cards by christmas

i`m courious to see first mining rigs build on new arhitecture (nvlink vs pcie ) any thoughts ?

performance of v100 seems to be 4x gtx 1060 ...and that is on one single card Shocked

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3196026/components-graphics/nvidias-monstrous-volta-gpu-appears-packed-with-21-billion-transistors-and-5120-cores.html

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/volta-gpu-architecture/?ncid=van-volta-gpu-architecture

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-volta-gv100-gpu-tesla-v100-architecture-specifications-deep-dive/

These cards are designed specifically for scientific computing. They have a cuda core that can do 4x4 matrix multiplication in 1 GPU cycle. The kind of optimization like Bitcoin mining ASICs.

So here's my question: how will GPU mining evolve? Currently any gaming card can mine reasonably well. But as Nvidia specializing their cards to deep learning and AMD specializing their cards to memory performance, it's become harder to democratize PoW mining. 4x4 matrix multiplication (or some future ISA innovations) could prove huge in some algos but a $15000 card is not something that common people will buy.