3 ms·

Huge difference in wear, yes. But not in the direction you think, I think. Warming up an cooling down is more damaging for a card than running constant temperat

• AnHonestComment 6y ago
  That seems true of structural components but untrue of silicon, where the heat output difference is literally the GPU being jiggled more aggressively inside by the miner. Heat dissipation is due to jiggling the tiny gates a little every time you fire one: which cycle much more often in the mining case — at a higher temperature, where there’s more likely to be damage.