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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: PowerVR Mining
by
hugolp
on 13/06/2011, 19:30:15 UTC
Ok, so I did some number crunching.

The Radeon Mobility 4670 gets 674% higher performance than the Intel GMA 500 (based on PowerVR 535) in Fear, which is a very shader intensive game.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-500-GMA-500.12614.0.html

According to Anand, the modern PowerVR chip used in the iPad 2 gets roughly 5.5x the performance of the GMA 500 chip in shader intensive tests.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/apple-ipad-2-gpu-performance-explored-powervr-sgx543mp2-benchmarked/1

This means we can expect a modern PowerVr chip to 81% of the shader performance of a Mobility 4670. The M4670 is equivalent to a desktop 4650, which can manage 31 Mh/S.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

We can therefore expect the PowerVR to manage 25 Mh/S at .9w. This gives us a Mh/J of 27.7, compared to 1.8 for a 5850.

This has potential.

According to this way of thinking, the Nvidias have a lot of potential too. Graphic performance =/= mining performance.

The only way you can know if the PowerVR are good for mining is trying them. Different graphic architectures have different mining performance. If you do Im interested in knowing how they do.