Nvidia Is About To Steal The Cryptocurrency Mining Crown From AMD

[Boomstick777]

Buried on the 17th page of Tom’s Hardware’s GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card review is a simple benchmark result that will dramatically disrupt the landscape of cryptocurrency mining. In fact, it’s the kind of data that should send AMD back to the drawing board — at least if they want to maintain their choke-hold on the mining hardware market.

Historically AMD has been the undisputed crowd favorite of miners looking to stock up on new forms of digital currency like Dogecoin and Litecoin. AMD’s Radeon graphics cards possess a secret sauce that allows significantly more powerful compute capabilities, at least the kind required for Scrypt-based mining.

That is, until Nvidia released their new Maxwell architecture this week.

Based on what I’m seeing with the 750 Ti, Nvidia is poised to embarrass AMD in the performance-per-watt race

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...eal-the-cryptocurrency-mining-crown-from-amd/

 

[TheRealDeal]

I think he forgot about gcn 2.0 while writing up this article. Yea Nvidia might have moved forward in this area with maxwell but i doubt amd are sitting still at the same time.

 

[Silent_Scone]

And yet still the care factory refused to reopen. I wish crypto would just hurry up and succumb to it's withering end.

 

[wazza300]

still be cheaper to go amd

 

[Suarez7]

inb4 750ti's going for £200 lol

 

[MrMoonX]

mining is dead, it needs to hurry up and die so retailers stop gouging on card prices

 

[Darujhistan]

Good. Cheaper AMD cards.

 

[Gregster]

Awesome news.

 

[ndaar]

I don't mine. I don't want to mine. I hope it all crashes down like the bubble it is. Its nice to see the new architecture in action though

 

[Suarez7]

Interesting bit some of you might miss if not reading the article in full:

One very valid concern for miners and gamers alike is the fear that pricing for Nvidia GPUs will become inflated just as AMD ones have become — caused by a lack of sufficient supply. A representative assures me this won’t happen, and it’s a claim backed up by the fact that Nvidia has much tighter control over their production.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Problem is they need like what...4 GTX750Ti to slightly beat and single 290x on mining returns on performances per watt?

I don't know why this is brought up as a new thread...hasn't this already been discussed in the GTX750Ti thread? It's already been pointed out that miners would care more about numbers than saving few watt, and the the physical space for fitting the cards. The GTX750Ti would be a poor choice for dedicated mining rig because of its poor performance per "space/slot" for each card lol

Until the high-end Maxwell are out, I don't think what Nvidia has to offer is enough to shake things up on the mining scene.

The price gouging for the AMD cards are mostly done from retailers' end at the moment, but if by the time that the high-end Maxwell are out mining is still very much alive, it wouldn't be just the retailers, but Nvidia can be counted on cashing in as well marketing it as a "feature", so it would be premium on top of premium, and it would hurt gamers even more than it is now as graphic card prices will be pushed up further than even now.

 

[wazza300]

they should have dedicated mining cards and gaming cards?

two separate tiers

 

[pgi947]

they should have dedicated mining cards and gaming cards?

two separate tiers

That could be a good idea, especially if the mining cards were say stripped of un required display connections and vram, possibly underclocked/volted out of the box in return for a cheaper price while not taking a dent out of gamers cards.

 

[BubbySoup]

mining is dead, it needs to hurry up and die so retailers stop gouging on card prices

In other news, PC gaming ..also dead!

 

[Gregster]

they should have dedicated mining cards and gaming cards?

two separate tiers

Not a bad shout Wazza. It would be good for the miners to have a dedicated mining card and the gamers to have a dedicated gaming card (and possibly an inbetweener).

 

[Boomstick777]

In other news, PC gaming ..also dead!

Haha.

 

[shahpor]

As a miner myself, and self confessed Nvidia fanboy, this is interesting news.

However, for me, motherboard slots are more important than saving a couple of quid. As any example, I currently have 6 pcie slots available, and a 7th card sitting idle.

Now I know 'specialist' motherboard are appearing with 6 or 7 slots, but it has been demonstrated that having 6 or more cards in one system can cause software problem, especially in Windows.

Although I will say that I am liking Nvidia's approach to this, since all miners know that electricity is a major consideration. So if Nvidia could sqeeze a little more performance out of their cards without too much wattage, they could onto a real winner here.

Oh, and nothing against the OP, but wouldn't this thread be more suitable for the crypto currency section of this forum?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Problem is they need like what...4 GTX750Ti to slightly beat and single 290x on mining returns on performances per watt?

It's already been pointed out that miners would care more about numbers than saving few watt, and the the physical space for fitting the cards. The GTX750Ti would be a poor choice for dedicated mining rig because of its poor performance per "space/slot" for each card lol

Until the high-end Maxwell are out, I don't think what Nvidia has to offer is enough to shake things up on the mining scene.

The price gouging for the AMD cards are mostly done from retailers' end at the moment, but if by the time that the high-end Maxwell are out mining is still very much alive, it wouldn't be just the retailers, but Nvidia can be counted on cashing in as well marketing it as a "feature", so it would be premium on top of premium, and it would hurt gamers even more than it is now as graphic card prices will be pushed up further than even now.

Agreed.

I don't know why this is brought up as a new thread...hasn't this already been discussed in the GTX750Ti thread?

Regarding why the OP,he has made a few GTX750TI threads today already. Not sure why.

 

[MrMoonX]

In other news, PC gaming ..also dead!

Since when?

 

[alex_123_fra]

In other news, PC gaming ..also dead!

I'd disagree. Off topic but I predict 4k gaming will help revive PC gaming as consoles don't have a hope in hell of being able to deliver anything playable at that res any time soon. PCs only need to wait 1-2 gens of GPUs to allow mainstream 4k gaming. Also 4k panel prices are dropping quite nicely.

The growing tablet market should help gamers afford more of the hotter mid-high range PC hardware. There was a time when in addition to a gaming PC, you needed a £1,000+ laptop for portable computing, for example. Now, unless you need to be really productive when mobile, a £150-400 tablet will more than suffice. So people are buying cheaper tablets and the cash saved can go on proper PC hardware.