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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
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mike_la_jolla
on 06/08/2018, 18:29:24 UTC
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What about the upcoming HBM2 FPGA's? Does that drastically change the playing field?
Probably not.  You get 20x performance improvement on the DDR4<->FPGA interface but no improvement anywhere else.  So the algorithm you are accelerating must require high amounts of sequential access to a large memory bank.  And any algorithm could be made resistant to acceleration by an HMB/FPGA merely by requiring >16GB of memory.

... And the present price of the HBM devices is *shocking* ...  Better from Intel/Altera than Xilinx, but still more than this market can tolerate.  Also, Intel/Altera has not executed well in the last 2-3 years.  Getting a Stratix10 device has been a bit of a joke in the FPGA world.