Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
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
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/
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
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.
Same way ASICs work right now. Extremely specialized hardware that are only really good at a few things (almost never more then one algo), so similar. They'll probably be great in some algos with customized programming and trash in others, somewhat like the way FPGAs work right now. I don't anticipate these will change things that much.
The more interesting option is the desktop cards that will follow this as original post was talking about.