Thursday, June 15th 2017
New NVIDIA Specialized Pascal 1060-based Cryptocoin Mining GPUs Photographed
Pictures of the new Pascal 1060-based Cryptocoin-specific mining GPUs have surfaced on the Chinese tech site expreview.com. They look markedly different than their gaming variety, not only lacking any display outputs (as expected), but also lacking any fan or active cooling at all and merely having a passive aluminum heatsink to cool it. It is likely that it could expect external active cooling or high airflow cases to function properly.
The design also seems to sport a custom PCB, and a single PCI-e power connector, suggesting a reasonably low power draw. The site also hints at a 1080 "mining edition" GPU being in the works, but has no photographic evidence on that front.
Expreview appears to have a lot of them already set up in a good quality rack-miner style setup, so feel free to oogle over this article's photographs if you happen to be interested in the Cryptocoin "wave" as of late.
Source:
expreview.com
Expreview appears to have a lot of them already set up in a good quality rack-miner style setup, so feel free to oogle over this article's photographs if you happen to be interested in the Cryptocoin "wave" as of late.
37 Comments on New NVIDIA Specialized Pascal 1060-based Cryptocoin Mining GPUs Photographed
Ah, relevant photo from my old Zeusminer:
Obviously they would need to be cheaper than a regular GPU for it to be worthwhile
videocardz.com/newz/first-look-at-pascal-based-gpu-cryptocurrency-mining-station
Probably based on aging N3050 or N3150
It's probably a server card with the cover off.
Maybe running a low-latency GPGPU database w/ near 36GB of in-memory data, or some other not so exotic stuff (e.g. rendering).
Also - sell it to chinese hackers to crack password hashes ))
1 - the fact these cards have less ports should make it cheaper to produce / buy
2 - it's possible this will reduce the price "normal" versions as they will no longer be bought for this purpose
3 - it's possible these cards have higher compute power then their "normal" versions, thus making them more expensive and counter-balancing #1
4 - with #3, these cards may end up more expensive then their "normal" versions but people will still buy these over "normal" versions, thus enabling #2 much more easily
Any of these flat out wrong?
Oh, boy, buy a 1080 miner card to do the same work as a 580 LOL. And the 4GB ones won't even work in the near future. Nvidia knows exactly what they're doing.
Nvidia will find a way to screw their customers again and again and many will "love that feature".
This move from Nvidia seems more like an attempt to kill the mining for ordinary people all together. These cards aren't even supposed to be sold to consumers, therefore consumers won't eventually be able to compete and earn some money with the ordinary cards.
I'm with you. What little non-enterprise, GPGPU applications out there could use such products. Though I highly doubt that this market, even with the addition of SLI/Crossfire users, is big enough to encourage AMD and NV to cater for.