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Topic
Board Pools
Re: ASIC vs CPU pool
by
redtwitz
on 10/12/2013, 18:44:14 UTC
One KNC Jupiter is likely more powerful than every CPU miner combined (including botnets).

Probably true. A Core i7 3930K can get to 66.6 MHash/s, but almost nobody has one of those. At 6.7 MHash/s (mining speed of a Core i7 2600K), it would take over 82,000 CPUs to match the Jupiter's 550 GHash/s. Although the largest botnet ever had 30,000,000 bots...

There is no "vs".

Which is faster a bicycle or a jet airplane?

Not a good analogy. 100,000 bicycles are still slower than a jet airplane, but 100,000 CPUs could match a Jupiter.