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Re: [ANN] cudaMiner - a new litecoin mining application [Windows/Linux]
by
ManIkWeet
on 28/03/2014, 20:41:31 UTC
http://cryptomining-blog.com/1801-new-higher-performance-cgminer-3-7-3-for-heavycoin-gpu-mining/

Looks like AMD card got a boost for HVC.  Too bad the 290x power usage cant compare with the efficiency of a 750 Ti!
I didn't monitor so far the TDP of the amd (can't in MSI AB just realise I can do that with HWinfo), but with a card running at 60°C it shouldn't be high.
For some reason, everybody seems to think that the R9 290x is a very power hungry card, but it is rated 250W.
Clearly, past generation amd may have been huge electron suckers but that doesn't seem to be the case for this one
Pretty sure it can peak to 300W, and that's without overclock...
But yes, my GTX 780 has a 250W rating too...
I thought AMD has a different way to rate watts however...