Quote from: klintistwood on December 03, 2017, 11:17:11 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on December 02, 2017, 09:40:54 PM

It depends on WHAT you are mining.

1070 ti is the most efficient card at ZEC mining right now with the 1080 a close second (but worse on hash/$ at any setting and the 1070 and 1080 ti are both fairly close on best efficiency OR hash/$).

For ETH the 1070 matches the 1070 ti hashrate exactly (same memory system on a VERY memory-hard algorithm) and the 1070 blows the 1080 completely out of the water - the 1080 ti beats the 1070 but not by a lot, making the 1070 by far the hash/$ leader of those 4 cards on ETH.
SOME 1070 cards will mine ETH at 32 Mhash/s but many of them do good to get to 30 - but even at stock clocks they pretty much all do more than 28.
But for $400 OR MORE they are not cost effective vs a 1060 3GB card that does 22+ for about half the cost, and they are not even CLOSE to cost effective vs RX 470/480/570/580 cards in the UNDER $250 range that can generally get to 28-30 Mhash (with BIOS mods) and are very close on efficiency.

Then there is Monero, where the Vega 56 is the current king of hash/watt (though some of the NVidia cards can argue there) and *WHEN* you can get one at semi-close to MSRP the hash/$ winner by a LOT.
Vega 56 is even beating those old "open-compute" refurb Intel servers on hash/$....

If you can find a Vega 56 for under $500, it currently has an ROI in the 85 day ballpark, and has been consistantly under 105 days for the last couple weeks.

I fully agree with you. In theory those RX cards should be better than the GTX 1060 but they are either outpriced or not available, GTX 1060 has become the best alternative for ETH. For ZEC or XMR, that's a different story. I tried my GTX 1060 rig on those currency and even if it's not bad, those cards are not high performing cards for those currencies. Somehow my whole rig was consuming way less power with ZEC and XMR than ETH. For some reason, the algorythm behind doesn't get all the juice from the GTX 1060.

EVGA GTX 1060 (got a couple of those) just went under 200$ now at Amazon: GTX 1060 on Amazon

Must have been a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale, they're showing as "$211.80" and higher now.
On the other hand, Newegg had a few RX 570 cards at $209 for Black Friday - lowest is back up to $239 as of yesterday.