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From a miner's perspective there's little incentive (in cost difference) to get a mining specific card that doesn't hold its value when the mining craze is over
by qqii 6y ago
From a miner's perspective there's little incentive (in cost difference) to get a mining specific card that doesn't hold its value when the mining craze is over compared to a general card which can be sold on the seccond hand market if necessary.
The same criticisms were given last time nividia tried to make a mining card and obviously it didn't work as last time they didn't need to use artificial limits.
- postalrat 6y agoThere will be when the mining cards cost 1/4 the price for the same performance/watt as the gaming cards.
- qqii 6y agoAlgorithms that are still protifable mine on GPUs were designed with ASIC resiliency in mind - they use memory hard algorithms. This makes the problem of designing specialised mining cards equivalent to designing fast and efficient DRAM, an area where the consumer product is the cutting edge. This was by design to reduce hashrate centralisation. Even the latest ethereum ASICs are only 10% more efficient, cost much more and can only mine ethash and its variants. So as it stands I see no evidence that suggests mining cards will be cheaper with better efficiency, especially when the cryptocurrency community slowly moving away from mining.
- fomine3 6y agoFinally used mining cards are sold as video cards by weird modification.