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  • asic bitmain antminer dr5

    The Chinese leader in the production of asic miners Bitmain never ceases to amaze, releasing new items one after the other with a qualitatively new level of performance and energy efficiency. Literally at the end of September, we wrote about Antminer DR3 with a HashRate of 7.8TH/s and 1410W (energy efficiency 181 W/TH). Exactly two months have passed and we already have a new asic under the same Blake algorithm (14r), but with a performance of 34TH at 1800W or more than 3 times the energy efficient asic miner Antminer DR5 (53W at TH).

     

     

  • The company Bitmain began selling Asic Miner Antminer D5 for mining cryptocurrency on the X11 algorithm (Dash, StartCoin, Influxcoin). Compared to its acclaimed predecessor Antminer D3, the new product offers improved energy efficiency 4.5 times at a nominal hash rate of 119GH / s instead of 17GH / s and a power consumption of 1566W. Considering such a qualitative leap in between generations, it is not surprising that the price of Antminer D3 dropped to a ridiculous 39 USD, which is comparable to the cost of the two fans installed on this asika. The cost of the D5, as it should be, is set in accordance with the current realities of the market at 8,200 yuan or 1,180 USD.

    Like all new Asics from the company Bitmain Antminer D5 is made in the new building and a pre-installed power supply.

  • sapphire NITRO+ RX590 About the next rebranding of video cards on POLARIS chips called RX590 it became known long before the announcement, and with all the details. About our expectations in mining from the Radeon RX590, we have already written in this article What to expect from GPU chips AMD Polaris 30 (RX590, RX680) in mining.. Today, when all the technical data and prices for graphics cards on the RX590 GPU have become known, we will take a closer look at the last three generations of AMD Radeon RX480-RX580-RX590 graphics cards and see how the new product shows itself in the mining.

     

  • comparison of new generation asic miners for bitcoin miningIn the fall of 2018, many new Asic miners appeared for mining cryptocurrencies using the SHA-256 encryption algorithm, including Bitcoin. The main reason for such a revival of Asic chip developers is the industrial development of 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process. Since Asic chips are small and have a simple structure compared to the GPU and X86 architecture, so the production of such chips is the most economically justified and gives the maximum effect from the transition to a thinner process. This is due to the increased number of defects from not fully developed technologies, which affects the cost of Asic chips much less than CPU and GPU chips. If the previous generation of Asic was mainly performed according to 12-16nm norms, then the use of 7nm in Asic of a new generation is expected to significantly increase the energy efficiency of such devices. Since on November 14, all the leading development companies of Asic Miners have already released or announced their Asic at 7nm, so it’s worthwhile to make their direct comparison by hashrate, energy efficiency and price.

  • asic miner bitcoin new innisilicon t3 43tA few days ago, new asic miners from Bitmain S15 and T15came out, like a competing company innosilicon is ready to have a crushing retaliatory strike called Terminator 3 or simply T3. If the bitman starts supplying his 7nm ASICS in December 2018, then in January-February 2019, you can purchase a more energy-efficient device for mining Bitcoin from Innosilicon.

     Judge for yourselves: T3 from Innisilicon with a hash rate of 43TH/s consumes 2100W, which is 49 W per TH, while Bitmain ANTMiner S15 has an energy efficiency of 57 W/TH, which is 16% worse. But if you compare the price of Antminer S15 to 1475 USD and 2200USD for T3-43T, which is 54% higher, but at the same time, the price for a terahash at S15 is even slightly higher than 52 USD/TH instead of 51 USD/TH at T3.

  • bitmain antminer s15 bitmain t15 mining bitcoin sha-256 сравнение асиков

    Yesterday, November 8, 2018, Bitmain presented a long-awaited new generation of its asic miners for Bitcoin, manufactured using 7nm technology. New items were named Antminer T15 and S15. The S15 model can show a hash rate of 28Th / s at a power consumption of 1596W, and its “defective” version of the T15 shows already 23TH / s at the same power consumption. Anyone already familiar with Bitmain products will not be surprised by this product separation, since Asics previous generation also divided into two versions of S9 and T9. Both versions were built on the same 16nm BM 1387 chips, but for T9, defective chips were used that did not give out design figures for hashrate and energy efficiency. For their Asics S15 and T15, Bitmain went the same way, offering to sell the culling at a reduced price.

    Let's compare the characteristics of Bitmain's new and previous generation Asics:

  • baikal BK-G28 For those who are already familiar with the mining of cryptocurrency will not be a secret that many cryptocurrency encryption algorithms are very similar to each other. Often, cryptocurrency algorithms consist of several simpler encryption algorithms, and the differences between them can sometimes only be in a different order of decryption of simpler algorithms. This feature is often used by manufacturers of ASICs, releasing Asic miner with support for several algorithms at once. One such product was released by Baikal Miner under the name Baikal BK-G28. A distinctive feature of the new ASIC is the support of 8 algorithms at once, which will be a record for such devices.

  • 7nm gpu vega 20 amd launchI think many have already heard about the work of AMD on a new generation of VEGA 20 GPUs using the new technical process in 7nm. Since the previous implementation, called VEGA 10, proved not to be at its best (mediocre performance and high power consumption), it is quite possible to believe the incoming information that VEGA 20 will be the same chip with minor modifications but with a more advanced technical process, which at least can be reduced VEGA 20 power consumption. Especially since AMD uses this practice time and again for its more “popular” GPUs. So it was with the video cards R9 7970-280-380 and RX 480-580-590.

  • crypto internet smartphone HTC EXODUS 1

    HTC has presented in Germany the first blockchain smartphone called EXODUS 1. According to its specifications, the novelty corresponds to the level of the top smartphones of 2019, since built on a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip, has a 6-inch QuadHD + 16: 9 display and other attributes necessary for modern smartphones. In addition to the usual functions of the smartphone has several original features aimed at working with cryptocurrency.

  • nvidia gtx1060 gddr5x mining ethashThe company Nvidia without loud announcements has added the ability to install GDDR5X memory instead of GDDR5 to the specification of the Geforce GTX1060 6Gb video card. As we know, GDDR5X memory significantly exceeds GDDR5 throughput, so it was previously only equipped with the top-end GTX1080 and GTX1080Ti video cards. For the rest of the parameters, the updated GTX1060 video card will correspond to the original GTX1060 (1280 Cuda cores, frequency 1506 MHz, 192bit memory bus, TDP 120W).

     

  • bitmain antminer s9 overt asicboost downloadA week ago, the company engaged in the development of third-party firmware for Asics Braiins OS announced that all Asic miners on BM1387 chips from Bitmain (Antminer S9, S9i, S9j, T9, T9 +, R4) are able to support the publicly available Overt AsicBoost function, with which Asic miners consume less electricity by 13%. Yesterday, the Bitman company itself issued a press release with the statement that all new firmware for their miners will also officially support this technology. You can read this statement at this link. To date, new firmware for ANTminer S9 has not yet appeared

  • msi rtx 2070 mining hasrateSince October 18, the first Nvidia RTX2070 video cards have appeared on the market, and everyone could easily familiarize themselves with the tests in the games of this video card, then the information vacuum of the RTX2070 cards in the mining is still preserved; there are practically no publicly available tests on the network. Which is rather strange, because its predecessor GTX1070 graphics card was the best choice for the price of hashrate and overall mining performance. Therefore, it will be especially interesting to compare the novelty with the GTX1070 and with the more expensive generation cards RTX20X0.

  • RX590 test mining

    If Nvidia already sells high-end models of new generation RTX2080 video cards, then AMD, as usual, with a slight delay after that, begins to produce its Middle video cards. And judging by the number of leaks on graphics cards on GPU chips Polaris 30, AMD will introduce the receiver of the Radeon RX580 video card in the near future. With the name of the new generation of graphics cards from AMD to the announcement as usual creative mess is created. On one channel there is information that AMD will adhere to the previous strategy and name the video cards on Polaris 30 expectedly RX670 and RX680, according to other sources only one version will be released under the name RX590. We will not focus on the names, but turn to the technical specifications, especially since there are no differences in both versions and try to conclude on the future performance of these video cards in mining.

  • asic miner bitfury tardis

    Bitfury is one of the first 3 companies (Bitfury, Canaan Creative and the long-gone Butterfly labs), which began to produce asic chips for bitcoin mining. Recently, the company website has information about the new asic miner called Bitfury Tardis with a hashrate of 80TH/s. Considering the fact that the company recently introduced its new Asic chip Bitfury Clarke with an energy efficiency of 0.55J / TH, we also expected to see similar energy efficiency in the new turnkey solution in the asic of Tardis.

  • hashrate test mining videocards nvidia geforce rtx 2080ti

    Those who are closely following the release of the new generation of Nvidia’s RTX 20xx video cards have most likely already got acquainted with the test results in the mining of the RTX 2080 video card. As we already know, the firstborn in the face of the RTX2080 performed well in mining, so the results that the Ti version will show should be at the same level. At the end of the article we will, as usual, compare the novelty with other solutions and summarize the payback and energy efficiency of the top solution of 2018 from Nvidia.

  • AMD and NVIDIA GPUs benchmarks on ProgPow algorithmMost recently, we already talked about a new mining algorithm called ProgPow and the Bitcoin Interest coin (BCI), which is extracted from this algorithm. Today we decided to conduct a quick test of the performance of various AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards on this production algorithm, including the new NVIDIA Turing GPUs (GTX 2080 and 2080Ti).

     

  • mining geforce RTX2080 gigabyteSeptember 20, 2018 RTX2080 has become available for purchase. There are various tests and video cards. This time, the novelty was testet by almost all the algorithms that are relevant for video card mining, Ethash, X16r, Equihash, Cryptonight, Hex, Lyra2Rev2, TimeTravel10, Phi2.

     

  • bitmain antminer DR3 mining decred

    The manufacturer Bitmain announced its first asics miner for the Blake algorithm (14r) for mining the Decred crypto currency. The outgoing 7.8Th/s hash at a power consumption of 1410W tells us about excellent energy efficiency. Compared with the competitors innosilicon D9, Halong Mining Dragon Mint B29, iBelink DSM7T, FFminer DS19, the novelty from Bitmain outperforms them in energy efficiency by two to three times. The only non-defeated competitor is Pangolin Whatsminer D1, formerly known as DCR with an energy efficiency of 0.05J/Gh, which is only promised to be released in November 2018.

     

  • pangolin whatsminer m10s

    The market of asics miners, despite the strong drawdown of the value of the crypto currency, continues manufacture the new models of asics miners from various manufacturers. This time the new model Whatsminer M10s from the Chinese manufacturer Pangolin. Whatsminer M10s is not the first model from Pangolin, except for the specified novelty in the product line, there are asics miners under decred and Bitcoin, including the immediate predecessor Whatsminer M10 at 33TH / s, about which we already wrote earlier. The main difference between the M10s model and the M10 is simple, as all the fans of Apple's technology could already guess, this is an increased hash to 55TH / s on the SHA-256 algorithm. Unlike Apple, the sink Miner S index did not deserve due to the use of new chips, but by simply increasing their number

  • canaan creative avalon miner a921 sha-256 bitcoin

    Previously, we wrote about the long-awaited novelty from Canaan called Avalon miner A9 at 7nm and a performance of 30 TH / s. Recently, Canaan has published the characteristics of the Avalon Miner A921 asic with a much smaller 20 GH / s hash, but with an energy consumption of 1700W, as previously stated for the 30GH / s model. Energy efficiency at 0.085 J / GH in this case is not much better than long-obsolete Asic at technology 16 nm from Bitmain. On the assurances of the developers this ashik is assembled on chips with a production technology of 7 nm, but we have great doubts on this score. Because already announced 7nm asics from other manufacturers promise energy efficiency several times better at 0.03-0.04 J / GH.