Thursday, June 22nd 2017
NVIDIA "Pascal" Based Mining GPU Lineup Detailed
GPU-accelerated crypto-currency mining poses a threat to the consumer graphics industry, yet the revenues it brings to GPU manufacturers are hard to turn away. The more graphics cards are bought up by crypto-currency miners, the fewer there are left for gamers and the actual target-audience of graphics cards. This is particularly bad for AMD, as fewer gamers have Radeon graphics cards as opposed to miners; which means game developers no longer see AMD GPU market-share as an amorphous trigger to allocate developer resources in optimizing their games to AMD architectures.
To combat this, both AMD and NVIDIA are innovating graphics cards designed specifically for crypto-currency mining. These cards are built to a cost, lack display outputs, and have electrical and cooling mechanisms designed for 24/7 operation, even if not living up to the durability standards of real enterprise-segment graphics cards, such as Radeon Pro series or Quadro. NVIDIA's "Pascal" GPU architecture is inherently weaker than AMD's "Polaris" and older Graphics CoreNext architectures at Ethereum mining, owing in part to Pascal's lack of industry-standard asynchronous compute. This didn't deter NVIDIA from innovating a lineup of crypto-mining SKUs based on its existing "Pascal" GPUs. These include the NVIDIA P104 series based on the "GP104" silicon (on which the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 are based); and P106 series based on the "GP106" silicon (GTX 1060 series is based on this chip). NVIDIA didn't tap into its larger "GP102" or smaller "GP107" chips, yet.
VideoCardz compiled a small list of unreleased crypto-currency mining cards based on the P104 and P106. These include cards from popular NVIDIA GeForce add-in card (AIC) partners, such as ASUS, MSI, and Colorful. The mining-segment cards look almost identical to the GeForce GTX 10-series cards they're derived from; but lack display outputs. Pictured above are the ASUS MINING-P106-6G, MSI P106-Miner, MSI P104-Miner; and Colorful P106-100 WK1 (in that order). It remains to be seen how NVIDIA and its partners price these cards, but if they're pricier than their GeForce GTX siblings, this whole exercise will be rendered futile, as miners will simply buy up the GeForce GTX inventories.
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VideoCardz
To combat this, both AMD and NVIDIA are innovating graphics cards designed specifically for crypto-currency mining. These cards are built to a cost, lack display outputs, and have electrical and cooling mechanisms designed for 24/7 operation, even if not living up to the durability standards of real enterprise-segment graphics cards, such as Radeon Pro series or Quadro. NVIDIA's "Pascal" GPU architecture is inherently weaker than AMD's "Polaris" and older Graphics CoreNext architectures at Ethereum mining, owing in part to Pascal's lack of industry-standard asynchronous compute. This didn't deter NVIDIA from innovating a lineup of crypto-mining SKUs based on its existing "Pascal" GPUs. These include the NVIDIA P104 series based on the "GP104" silicon (on which the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 are based); and P106 series based on the "GP106" silicon (GTX 1060 series is based on this chip). NVIDIA didn't tap into its larger "GP102" or smaller "GP107" chips, yet.
54 Comments on NVIDIA "Pascal" Based Mining GPU Lineup Detailed
With that gp104 you have a point though, wonder if one can sli it with normal gtx1080. Probably not officially but maybe with tweaked driver.
4 years ago I owned two zeus thunders that mined 60 mh/s per sec but the power draw was 2000 watts a day that cost of 8.40 in power a day but my return was around 50.00 a day. I ran them for a year but then the price dropped of stuff I was mining and then I was only making 5 dollars a day and spending 8.40 in power.
My new miners cost me 4 grand I made it back in a month.
And 4 1060's is like 300w max. I don't know what you did to get 1kw for 4 cards. Hell the 1080 based ones are only 180w...
I did gpu mining on scrypt coins years ago NO asic's in sight nothing on the market then they came. Etherum is no different once the price gets to a certain point some company will invent a asic for it. I've been in bitcoin and litecoin for over 5 years. It will happen trust me.
All these cards add for me is a cheaper buy in, a specific driver that increases performance and a higher daily yield. If all I do is end up with less profit from buying them, well it was free money anyway and just something more to write off on my taxes.
980Ti+1080Ti is 1150sol/s
980Ti+980Ti is 900sol/s
1080Ti+1080Ti is 1300sol/s (heavy tdp limit on this one)
1070+1070+1070 is 1240sol/s
My 1060's are still more profitable to run in ethereum so those are all mining that still.
at another located I have 5 more 980Ti's and some other cards that work out to like $45 a day
1070 #1 - 470 sol/s
1070 #2 - 455 sol/s
1080 Ti - 730 sol/s
7970x2 - 511 sol/s
Fury X - 480 sol/s
So average right on 3,000 sol/s but we're seeing random spikes around 3,100 sol/s across the whole setup. Besides one 1070 running a bit slow due to being single-slot it didn't seem low overall compared to the numbers I was seeing online.
Just as I posted today this came up. Interesting
These "mining oriented cards" will be a hard sell to some people , without display outputs the resale value essentially goes down to 0. Even if you get ROI people will want to get as much money as possible out of them.
It wont make a difference to the prices either , I am sure the prices of these will inflate like a a balloon too changing nothing and lack of availability will become imminent. All people will want is to get their hands on any card they can find , meant for mining or not.
Meanwhile people who want to game , bad luck. Also can't wait to see microwaved cards flooding the sh market.