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The Avalon ASIC can perform 68,000 Mhash/s which is ~110x more powerful than a 7970 GPU (at ~600 Mhash/s) at around 3x the cost. It's obviously better value fo
by mctx 13y ago
The Avalon ASIC can perform 68,000 Mhash/s which is ~110x more powerful than a 7970 GPU (at ~600 Mhash/s) at around 3x the cost.
It's obviously better value for an individual to buy an ASIC than a bunch of GPUS, but I think you could still earn a few coins if you've got thousands of gamers with spare GPU cycles.
- muyuu 13y agoIf you can buy one. The problem with ASICs is that, once they get under the profit curve, they have no other usage. I can very reliably expect a 7970 to be useful for a few years at least. An Avalon, if I manage to get it, may or may not pay for itself before difficulty makes it unprofitable to run. And then it's completely useless. Lots of hypothesis and conjectures.
- lifeformed 13y agoCould you repurpose them for password cracking?
- muyuu 13y agoNope. FPGAs yes, ASICs no. They are just machines or iteratively calculating sha-256( sha-256( something ) ) and they are hard-wired to that.