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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: EQUIHASH ASICS!?!?! Can it really be?
by
QuintLeo
on 06/04/2018, 20:45:37 UTC

The new Bitmain Ethash miner on the horizon (shipping in August) matches GPUs in hashrate/watt, so that indicates also it is probably merely some GPUs with lots of memory in a box.  But the thing is, it costs $800 for the equivalent of 5x 1080 Ti or 5x Vega 64.


It would be more fair to compare it to 6 x 1070 or 6 x RX 570/580, since ETH miners don't USE Vega or 1080 ti cards due to their VERY POOR HASHRATE PER $.

Sure both cards will do ballpark 35 Mhash, but when a 1070 at less than 70% of the cost manages 31+ and a RX 570/580 at HALF OR LESS the cost manages 28-30.....