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Mining hardware

  • canaan avalon a10

    Canaan Creative, the second largest producer of asic miners, presented the second generation 7nm ASIC for Bitcoin - Avalon A10. After the not very successful model of Avalon A9 , the manufacturer will only now release asic miner SHA-256 with the characteristics that it promised for the 9th generation Avalon. On the official website avalonminer.shop, apart from the banner with the announcement, there is still no information, therefore the only official source confirming the characteristics of Avalon A10 is a post in the official Wechat branch.

  • innosilicon_A9 zmasterInnoslicon introduced its new asic miner for the Eqiuhash A9 ++ ZMaster algorithm for direct competition with the Bitmain miner  recently announced for Equihash - ANTminer Z11. Equihash A9 ++ ZMaster is a slightly improved version of the A9 ZMaster, which was increased in size, which gave an increase not only in hashes, but also in power consumption.

     Specifications ASIC Miner  A9++ ZMaster:

     

  • whatsminer_m20sThe Chinese company Pangolin yesterday announced a pre-order for their Bitcoin ASICs of the new generation Whatsminer M20, made according to the technological standards 12nm. The declared energy efficiency will be at the level of 46W/TH, for comparison, the current generation of the Whatsminer M10 has an energy efficiency of 65W/TH. The main competitor of Bitmain, the current generation Antminer S15, has an energy efficiency of 57 W/TH, which is slightly higher, although a more perfect 7nm process is used. The delivery date of the first batch is July 10-20, 2019, which is long enough, since by this time, Bitmain could release new ASICs for Bitcoin with an energy efficiency of 30 W/TH on the already announced BM1397 chips.

  • Bitmian has launched a new generation of asic miner sales for Equihash's Antminer Z11 algorithm. In the production of Z11, new asic chips manufactured using 12nm technology with an energy efficiency of 10.5 J/KH were used. For comparison, the previous version of the Antminer Z9 had an energy efficiency of 28.8 J/KH, i.e. The novelty for this parameter is 3 times better. The total hashrate has grown from 40Ksol to 135Ksol, and the TDP has also been increased from 1150 W to 1418 W.

  • MSI Geforce GTX1660Ti Ventus 6GThe Nvidia GTX1660Ti video card has been selling for a long time, but there is still little information on its performance in mining on the less popular algorithms. Immediately after the announcement, the hashrate was only available for Ethereum (Nvidia Geforce GTX1660Ti first mining test in Ethereum), since there has been almost no information on the use of GTX1660Ti in mining, with the exception of rare messages on specialized forums. To fill this gap, later in the text you will find detailed information on testing the GTX1660Ti on 34 mining algorithms of cryptocurrencies on different miners with optimization of operating frequencies and Power Limit for mining of cryptocurrencies.

  • If AMD is trying to maintain its position in the budget class of video cards, releasing the RX560XT, then Nvidia confidently takes the Middle segment with its new RTX2060, GTX1660Ti and GTX1660, leaving no chances in this AMD product segment, forcing to reduce the prices of its RX570 / RX580 video cards to price video card GTX1050Ti. But now let's talk not about this, but about another new product of the company Nvidia GTX1660 without an index "Ti", which will once again make AMD managers nervous.

     

  • AMD, чтобы конкурировать с младшей линейкой видеокарт Nvidia, выпустила для китайского рынка Radeon RX560XT, которая является урезанной модификацией видеокарты RX570, то есть RX560XT основана на более мощной архитектуре Polaris20. , Мы уже видели подобные решения от AMD в 2016 году, когда видеокарта Radeon RX470D была также выпущена для китайского рынка, но сегодня эта видеокарта довольно популярна на вторичном рынке различных стран благодаря своей цене 50-60 долларов США. Его идеологический последователь Radeon RX560XT имеет все шансы повторить этот путь.

  • bitmain_antminer_b7The manufacturer Asic miner-s Bitmian has released ANTminer B7 for mining Bytom mining on the Tensority algorithm. Cryptocurrency Bytom appeared exactly a year ago in March 2018, and Bitmain, together with the announcement of Bytom, released a specialized asic miner ANTminer B3 for the new Tensority algorithm at that time. The past year, Bitmain clearly worked well, because A new version of ASIC for Bytom can offer more than 1000 times more performance than the first version.

     

  • Well-known Asic miners manufacturing company Innosilicon has opened a pre-order for asic for mining cryptocurrency GRIN. From the technical specifications, only power consumption of 500W is now known, the rest of the data is given in vague phrases “the hashrate will be many times more powerful and more efficient than the GPU” or “the noise level will be available for use at home”. The manufacturer promises to indicate exact technical characteristics only after April 15, and the device itself will be ready for shipment in the summer of 2019. At the moment you can leave a deposit of 2000 USD for booking the purchase of Innosilicon Grin Miner from the first batch. Since the company does not indicate the exact characteristics of ASIC, therefore it offers a full return of the deposit within 2 weeks after the announcement of the technical characteristics if they are not satisfied with anything. You can read more about asyk for GRIN at this link.

     

  • gtx1660ti miningOn February 22, 2019, the budget Nvidia Geforce GTX1660Ti video card was presented without RayTracing blocks, which had a good effect on the price and power consumption of this video card, which can not fail to please meininag fans on video cards, since It is these parameters that most affect the payback of equipment. Of the gaming tests, many already know that the GTX1660Ti gives  the same performance as the GTX1070, but for less money and with less power consumptionм.

     

  • Overview miner FPGA Blackminer F1 + from HashAltcoinBlackMiner F1 + is an improved version of FPGA miner Blackminer F1 from HashAltcoin, which is a completely finished device made in the usual Bitmain formic factor of the previous generation. Unlike ASICs, in FPGA instead of one possible algorithm for mining, theoretically, mining of any algorithms is available after flashing. For the BlackMiner F1 +, mining of 17 different algorithms is currently available. Consider the possibilities of the FPGA miner from Hashaltcoin in more detail.

     Characteristics of HashAltcoin BlackMiner F1 +:

     

  • On February 18, 2019, Bitmain introduced the second generation of its 7nm asic BM1397 chips for the SHA-256 algorithm. Compared with the current generation used in the AntMiner S15 and T15, the energy efficiency of the new product is higher by 28.6% and is 30 J / Th. Now, we recall, Bitmain sells SHA-256 asik miners with energy efficiency 57 J / TH. Currently, the technical characteristics of the future Antminer S17 and T17 are unknown, but it is not difficult to assume that the hashrate will be 36 Th / s and 29 TH / s, respectively, with the same power consumption. More details about the announcement can be found on the official site Bitmain.

  • On February 7, 2019, AMD's hi-end video card, called the Radeon RX Vega 7, built on the trimmed GPU Vega 20 from the Radeon Instinct, went on sale. The GCN architecture of this GPU is 5 generations left, as in the previous Vega 64, so you should not expect any serious performance growth, which cannot be said about the memory subsystem, since in addition to its increase from 8Gb to 16Gb, AMD also more than doubled its memory bandwidth, which primarily affected the performance of this video card in mining with memory dependent algorithms (Ethash).

  • The mining industry on video cards for 2018 has probably gone through the biggest changes in its entire life span, since Many popular mining algorithms previously available only for video cards have been completely supplanted by asic devices, a large number of new cryptocurrencies promoting new "asic resist" algorithms have appeared on the market, as well as new-generation video cards began to appear. Against this background, the protracted decline in the entire cryptocurrency market for the entire 2018 and the beginning of 2019 makes the life of miners with video cards, in pursuit of maximum profit and payback of their equipment, is not quite predictable and complex. If you have not yet surrendered and have not sold the entire fleet of your video cards, then this material will help you with the choice of the algorithm and software for mining, and optimists will also be able to choose the best option for purchasing and expanding their capacities. Also this material will be very useful for beginners who are just starting their way in the world of cryptocurrencies.

  • asic_fusionsilicon_x7The development of specialized devices for mining cryptocurrency (Asic) continues to develop as well as before, adding to the performance with each new generation up to 2 times. Such a new breakthrough was the asik miner X7 from FusionSilicon for mining cryptocurrency Dash and others on the X11 algorithm. If the previous leader Bitmain Antminer D5 could offer energy efficiency at the level of 13W / GH (119Gh, 1566W), then the novelty has a 70% higher energy efficiency of 5W / GH (262GH, 1300W). And the D5 appeared literally 2 months ago in November 2018 and already looks very weak against the background of FusionSilicon X7.

  • grin-asic-miner-grn1

    The GRIN cryptocurrency recently came out with a new dual algorithm, Cuckaro29 and Cuckaroo31, as the Obelisk GRN1 ASIC was announced almost immediately under the Cuckaroo31 algorithm, and in a press release this algorithm was named as Asic frendly (friendly to Asik). Because of such a quick announcement, it can be assumed that the creation of GRIN was initially based on the use of Asics.

  • Earlier, we already laid out the results of testing the Nvidia Geforce RTX2060 video card on various mining algorithms, but without specifying the settings used in this case. In this test, the RTX2060 in mining Ethereum showed only 25MH / s, which is not much more than the video cards of the previous generation GTX1060 can show. Today we came across more detailed information on mining Ethash, which you can find below.

     

  • rtx2060 mining testThe RTX2060 video card presented at the beginning of January 2019 has not yet been released for sale to date, however, we can already introduce you to the results of tests of this video card in mining on various software. The most popular miners with support for Nvidia video cards were taken as tests: Claymore`s Dual Ethereum, Bminer, NBMimer, Z-enemy, CryptoDredge, Gminer, Zjazz, T-REX, TTminer.

  • майнинг Rtx2060 хешрейтOn January 7, 2019, the Nvidia video card of the middle price range of the new generation RTX 2060 6Gb was introduced, replacing the previous generation GTX 1060, which is popular among gamers and miners. Most likely, all our readers have already familiarized themselves with the characteristics and tests in the games of the new product from Nvidia, so we will not repeat, we just say that the performance of the Nvida RTX 2060 in games is equivalent to the GTX1070 of the previous generation or even the GTX1070Ti. We are most interested in the performance of the mining and whether RTX 2060 can become a full replacement for the GTX1070 or even the GTX1080. To do this, we compare the main characteristics of these video cards and try to present the performance in the mining of the RTX 2060 on the basis of these data, especially since, with the announcement of its RTX colleagues, we managed to do it with fairly good accuracy.

  • sirin phoneIn October, we wrote about the launch of pre-order for the first blockchain of the smartphone HTC EXODUS 1. On December 1, another blockchain smartphone from the unknown Sirin Labs wound called Finney became available for pre-order, cryptocurrency is likely to be supported in the near future smartphones will become a new necessary functionality for all manufacturers of smartphones. Let's see what the niche smartphones on the blockchain smartphones actually differ from the usual ones on the example of the new Sirin Labs.