Quote from: CharHill on July 21, 2014, 01:39:33 PM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 16, 2014, 04:02:21 PM

Quote from: CharHill on July 16, 2014, 01:30:12 PM

Can someone tell me, why GPU mining is better then CPU mining?? It's so strangely, i think.

Since nobody actually answered your question, let me. GPU mining is better than CPU mining because a GPU can far better handle parallel processing.

Okay. All mining process is so hardly, that need to with parallel processing, by liner math task. Do i rightly understatnd that??

I'm not sure I entirely understand your reply, but let me give you a bit more detail.

At it's most basic level, mining is nothing more than solving math problems. Depending on which coin you're mining, the math function might change, but it's still solving a math problem. It is an extremely repetitive process. In other words, you have to do the same function over and over and over. This is why a GPU is faster than a CPU. What does a GPU do, really? Execute a ton of similar math problems in parallel to render a graphics object. It's a purpose-built chip to offload those kinds of transactions from your CPU.

This is why ASICs are even faster. The mining ASIC has no job in the world OTHER than to solve those specific math problems. Try to think about it like this:

CPU - has to deal with all kinds of different instructions, from all kinds of different applications.
GPU - has to deal with specific sets of instructions, so it can handle those kinds of instructions faster since it is dedicated to do just them
ASIC - has to deal with only a single kind of instruction, so it is entirely built to do just that extremely fast.