Ethereum Mining Performance: GeForce Vs. Radeon

[kyotokid]

...stop bloody encouraging them to allow gaming and CG enthusiasts to be gouged.

 

[vailr]

The nVidia drivers current version is 390.77, as of the date of this article. For the "most efficient mining GPU", several more nVidia cards should have been included for consideration: GTX 1070, GTX 1070Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1080Ti.

 

[aquielisunari]

The nVidia drivers current version is 390.77, as of the date of this article. For the "most efficient mining GPU", several more nVidia cards should have been included for consideration: GTX 1070, GTX 1070Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1080Ti.

It does seem very shortsighted and just enough to pacify that trend BUT!!! every store in the world was sold out of them anyway. Only individuals are selling them. Think someone will pay $600 over retail? I purchased my card for $849. The next time I checked it was at $1399.

 

[marcelospera]

Tom's hardware should have an "print" option. I always save a PDF version of interesting articles but you make everything harder... 🙁

 

[Sam Hain]

...stop bloody encouraging them to allow gaming and CG enthusiasts to be gouged.

This is why I recently yanked my two Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti Xtreme's offline (for sale), in the event my current GPU fails... I have a back up GPU(s) on-hand without having to either go without a desktop or reaching deep in the pockets for a replacement 1080 Ti.

I can only imagine what the next gen GPUs price-tags will be looking like, if this trend continues.

 

[InvalidError]

I can only imagine what the next gen GPUs price-tags will be looking like, if this trend continues.

When next-gen GPUs launch, the market will get flooded with previous-gen GPUs from miners upgrading their rigs. Plenty of affordable Radeon 5xx/Vega/GTX10xx for everyone who doesn't mind buying used miners.

 

[Josh_killaknott27]

Thought this was a PC enthusiast website, didnt realize you all were pandering to wasteful stupid miners taking a whole year to recover (mine ) the cost of just a single GPU, they have the logic of a fly

 

[Finstar]

Thought this was a PC enthusiast website, didnt realize you all were pandering to wasteful stupid miners taking a whole year to recover (mine ) the cost of just a single GPU, they have the logic of a fly

Even with the current price of Ethereum, most gpus will pay themselves back in just 6 months. If we see a another spike to $1400 in some point we're talking about less than 3 months. At that point you've gotten a free gpu that will continue to make profit for you.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I don't really see this article as promoting or encouraging mining. People have already decided to mine, and they'll find the information they need to do so either here on Tom's or elsewhere. I view this article as more 'the mining scene is here regardless of how you feel about it, so let's take a look at it'.

 

[kodimah]

Hardware prices don't revolve around gamers or any one demographic. Just as houses, food, stocks, etc. nearly everything goes up in price as more money chases a product, why would anyone expect GPU's to be sacrosanct?

 

[TJ Hooker]

Hardware prices don't revolve around gamers or any one demographic. Just as houses, food, stocks, etc. nearly everything goes up in price as more money chases a product, why would anyone expect GPU's to be sacrosanct?

Yeah, I understand being bummed out if you're trying to buy a card and it's unusually expensive. But the outrage some people are showing is childish, you're not entitled to be able to buy a GPU at a certain price, and there isn't really any reason why a gamer deserves a card over a miner.

 

[InvalidError]

there isn't really any reason why a gamer deserves a card over a miner.

For better or worse, it is the "free market" at work. Stuff on limited availability goes to the highest bidders, just like game consoles a couple years ago getting scalped on eBay for 3-5X the retail cost for the first many months from launch.

On the plus side, AMD needs the cash and is finally turning a profit partly thanks to crypto-mining promoting on-going market clear-out of their most profitable GPUs.

 

[littleleo]

If only Quadro cards were popular with miners I have a warehouse full of them. I wish those business class cards were the mining rage so the rest of the Gaming GPUs would be available to gamers and enthusiast.

 

[Dyseman]

No No No!!! The heading should have been. "Best GPU is VooDoo 2... Quit buying up the 580's 1070's and 1080's"

 

[mac_angel]

not sure if anyone will read this, but funny fact for all those people that complain about miners taking up all the graphics cards and being responsible for the shortage (there is always a shortage this time of year, and there is a world wide RAM shortage in general that covers more than just GPUs).
Both AMD and NVidia have included performance profiles for mining in their drivers, mostly covered in the more popular mining programs such as NiceHash. AMD and NVidia don't care who buys their GPUs, they are just happy they are selling. And if they were capable, they'd be flooding the market with GPUs for increase sales, and more money. They aren't capable because of the RAM shortage.
And the little 'press release' of NVidia asking retailers to limit sales to 2 per customer is just them playing politics and trying to look good for fanboys (and girls) to look up to NVidia and want to stay with them as a brand.

 

[Neuspeed]

Digital currency is here to stay. The sooner everyone learns it, the better. Nice article write up. It's good to see the folks over @ Tom aren't being cry babies about digital currency.