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I thought they use AMD cards because they consume less power
by usaphp 9y ago
I thought they use AMD cards because they consume less power
- dragontamer 9y agoNVidia actually consumes less power in most games. But AMD cards use less power with integer performance.
- jackyinger 9y agoThis is the reason, Nvidia is good for floating point. Which is why people use them for deep learning.
- mamp 9y agoThe main reason is library support. Still no widely supported (or ported) equivalent to Cuda/CuDNN for AMD.
- lostmsu 9y agoPower does not matter that much if you spend $3 of it to earn $100 every month. It mostly depends on payback time.
- aarongolliver 9y agoThose two statements are basically equivalent when it comes to mining. cost/hash/second is the metric you optimize for. AMD cards can do the integer operations required with less power (and faster!)