Mining hardware

Hashrate of the Geforce RTX 4060 8Gb video card

Just a few days ago, another Nvidia graphics card from the 4000 series, the RTX 4060, went on sale at a price of 299 USD. Considering the negative trends of the latest models, namely simplification and simultaneous rise in price, which became especially noticeable on the RTX 4060 Ti video card, we will evaluate with interest the mining capabilities of the Geforce RTX 4060 and find out whether this video card is worth the money or better to prefer other options.

New ASIC miners MicroBT Whatsminer M50S++, M53S++ and M56S++

Asic miner manufacturer Whatsminer has introduced a new line of bitcoin mining devices called M50S++, M53S++ and M56S++. Moreover, the older models M53S++ and M56S++ are intended only for installation in server racks with pre-designed cooling for server stations. Asic miner in the usual format, conditionally for home use, is available only in the younger model M50 ++. A distinctive feature of the sales of new Whatsminer ASIC miners is the factory testing of devices for the quality of ASIC chips, which is why there are several modifications of the same model with different hashrate and, accordingly, with different prices. Those. Whatsmainer began to act like memory, CPU and GPU chip manufacturers by selling the same chip at different prices after testing and rejection. So far, the difference in price between the maximum possible hashrate and the minimum one is not much different, but most likely this is just a probing of the market, and soon this practice among ASIC miner manufacturers may become commonplace.

Asic iPollo X1 for Ethash algorithm in graphics card case

iPollo has announced its new ASIC miner called X1, designed to mine cryptocurrency on the ETHash and ETChash algorithm. ASIC characteristics do not shock anyone, because. this is an analogue of last year's iPollo V1 Mini, but with a significantly lower price and in several types of cases.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card - cryptocurrency mining and hashrate

On May 25, 2023, the first entry-level model of the RDNA 3 generation, the Radeon RX 7600, was introduced to the AMD consumer graphics portfolio with a MSRP of $269. Because the announcement of the video card took place the day after the announcement of the RTX 4060 Ti from Nvidia, then you can safely compare these video cards with each other both in terms of price and their efficiency in mining. If the RTX 4060 Ti is not the best choice for mining at its price of 399 USD, then it will be interesting to compare the results in mining with its direct competitor RX 7600.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060Ti graphics card - cryptocurrency mining and hashrate

On May 24, 2023, Nvidia introduced a new mid-range consumer graphics card called the Geforce RTX 4060Ti. Like the entire current RTX 4000 series of graphics cards, the new product offers significantly increased GPU capabilities (22TFLOPS instead of 16TFLOPS for the RTX 3060 Ti), but at the same time, the video memory subsystem has undergone a serious simplification due to which the memory bandwidth of the 4060Ti is almost two times lower than that of the RTX 3060Ti (288Gbit/s vs 448Gbit/s). And this is a rather serious simplification, which will definitely affect the hash rate of this video card in cryptocurrency mining on the algorithms Ethash, ETChash, KawPow and others for the worse. For you to understand the level of video memory performance of the new GPU, they lowered it to the level of the GTX 1070, which was sold back in 2016. How such "large-scale" changes will affect the performance in the mining of the RTX 4060 Ti video card, you will learn further.

Bitmain KAS Miner KS 3 - the most powerful ASIC for Kaspa cryptocurrency

Bitmain once again confirms its status as the number one manufacturer of ASIC miners by releasing the most high-performance asic miner for Kaspa cryptocurrency for free sale. The novelty is called Bitmain KAS Miner KS3 with a hashrate of 8300GH/s with a power consumption of 3188W. For comparison, Osprey's competing E300 hashrate is only 14GH/s at 500W.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 hashrate in cryptocurrency mining

Nvidia has launched the next Ada Lovelace RTX 4070 generation graphics card, which may be of significant interest to miners due to the growing popularity of mining cryptocurrencies with an emphasis on pure GPU performance: Nexa, Kaspa and others. If the RTX 4070 can offer the same mining efficiency as its older brethren, then it could be the best choice for miners, as has been the case with previous mid-range Nvidia graphics cards. Actually, this is what we will try to find out and evaluate the RTX 4070 video card as a tool for cryptocurrency mining, and not a gaming solution.

All HashAltCoin FPGAs Get Support for the kHeavyHash Algorithm

HashAltcoin produced FPGA (programmable) miners under the Blackminer brand, which were popular and brought good income at the peak of cryptocurrency prices in 2021. The company recently breathed new life into its products by releasing a new firmware with support for the kHeavyHash mining algorithm, which makes it possible to mine Kaspa cryptocurrency on FPGA miners Blackminer F1, F1+, F1 Mini, F1 Mini+, F1 Ultra, F2.

ASIC SuperScalar K10 - 30Gh/s hashrate based on the kHeavyHash algorithm (Kaspa)

Recently, the cryptocurrency Kaspa has gained significant popularity among GPU miners, but the popularity of the cryptocurrency has attracted not only owners of GPU mining rigs, but also FPGA and ASIC miner manufacturers. At the end of 2022, the first FPGA miner Osprey E300 was made available for Kaspa mining under the kHeavyHash algorithm, which is the algorithm that the Kaspa crypto project operates on. Just under six months later, the first ASIC miner for Kaspa was released, called the Superscalar K10.

Goldshell Mini Doge 2 - mining Doge cryptocurrency at home

Goldshell has released the second version of the Mini Doge ASIC miner for the Scrypt algorithm (Litecoin, Doge), the key feature of which is the ability to use these ASICs at home. Therefore, the maximum noise from the cooling system is limited to only 35dB, for comparison, industrial Asic miners usually have a noise figure of 75-85dB, which is equivalent to the noise from a lathe. That is why ASIC miners do not use it in apartments or offices. Because not everyone can afford to buy several dozen ASIC miners and rent an industrial premises, it is for such people that goldshell releases its products that can be placed next to a computer or laptop as an unusual electronic gadget.

Bitmain Antminer D9 - new ASIC for Dash cryptocurrency

In February 2023, Bitmain introduced a new generation of its ASIC miners for mining Dash cryptocurrency on the X11 algorithm. The novelty is called Antminer D9 or Dash Miner D9. Compared to the previous model Antminer D7 (on sale since 2021), the new one has a larger hash rate and at the same time has lower power consumption. For which buyers will have to pay a rather high price, estimated by the company itself at 8500 USD for one device.

Bitmain Antminer E9 PRO - new ASIC miner for ETHash, ETChash algorithm

At the beginning of 2023, Bitmain released an updated version of its ASIC miner for mining cryptocurrencies using ETCHash, ETHahsh mining algorithms - ANTminer E9 PRO. Compared to the E9, the new product received better energy efficiency of 0.6W/MH instead of 0.8W/MH and 7GB of RAM, which is also not unimportant, because. if the DAG file size is larger than the RAM, the ASIC simply will not work. For example, the DAG file of the EthereumPOW cryptocurrency already has a size of more than 5GB.

Hashrate of Amd, Nvidia, Intel video cards for 2023. Table.

2022 turned out to be an interesting and eventful year in the world of cryptocurrencies. In one year, together with you, we managed to observe the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies, we learned that even the largest crypto companies can close overnight, leaving behind not only offended customers, but also the entire industry. If the general state of the crypto markets can be described as a crypto winter, then for miners, 2022 can be compared to an atomic apocalypse and scorched earth. And it’s not only the sharp decline in the cost of cryptocurrencies that is to blame, but also the transition of the second most popular cryptocurrency from POW mining to POS mining. Because of this, several tens of millions of video cards that served the Ethereum POW blockchain remained out of work.

But despite this, the ideas of Satoshi Nakomoto continue to live in 2023 and move the world towards a new digital future.

The new ASIC Bitmain S19j PRO+

At the very beginning of 2023, Bitmain introduced a new model of its ASIC miner for the SHA-256 algorithm (Bitcoin cryptocurrency) - S19j PRO+. as you might guess from the name, this is not a new generation of asic miners for bitcoin, but an extension of the current S19 line. Moreover, this is not the most high-performance and energy-efficient model, but a slightly improved basic modification. The most advanced model from Bitmain, we recall, is now the S19 XP, released back in 2021.

Bitmain HNS Miner HS3 - Asic miner for HandShake cryptocurrency

The leader in the production of ASIC miners for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, Bitmain, unexpectedly introduced its first ASIC miner for mining the little-known HandShake (HNS) cryptocurrency. The novelty is called Bitmain HNS Miner HS3. The HandShake project is different in that it uses the original Blake2B+SHA3 algorithm for POW mining, but sometimes it is called the same as the HandShake (HNS) cryptocurrency itself.

Hashrate of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX video card based on ETChash, ETHash algorithm

Miners finally got the top version of the AMD video card for 2022 called the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, in which, in addition to the increased number of blocks and memory, the developers also increased the data bus between the GPU and memory to 380 bits, which is no longer was in AMD video cards. The extended data transfer channel increased the memory bandwidth to 960Gbit / s, which will primarily have a positive effect on the hashrate of video cards in memory dependent algorithms: ETHash, ETChash, KAWPOW, etc.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT hashrate based on ETChash, ETHash algorithm

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT video card, which went on sale at the very end of 2022, has already appeared in the first tests in cryptocurrency mining on the ETChash mining algorithm (Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency). Because ETChash does not differ much from its ancestor EThash, so the results of testing on ETChash can be safely transferred to EThash, which continues to be used for its POW network by several dozen little-known cryptocurrencies (Ethereum POW, EtherGem and others).

Osprey E300 - FPGA miner for Kaspa cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Kaspa began to gain popularity after the transition of Ethereum to POS, i.e. first of all, Kaspa is considered as an alternative for mining on video cards. Popular POW cryptocurrencies attract not only GPU miners, but also developers of FPGA and ASIC miners, which happened with the Kaspa cryptocurrency. As usual, FPGA miners appear first, and then ASIC miners that are more difficult to develop. Kaspa is no exception, because recently there was information about the FPGA miner Osprey Electronics E300, capable of mining any cryptocurrency on the KHeavyHash algorithm with a hashrate of 14GH/s.

CPU mining: what to mine on the new AMD Ryzen 7950X in 2022-2023?

Given the high performance of AMD processors in workloads and cryptocurrency mining, we were wondering how good AMD's older CPU - Ryzen 9 7950X from the new AMD 7000 series processor line is in this business. Let's try to figure out what at the moment (12/12/2022) is the most profitable to mine on this processor and whether it is generally profitable. In addition, we will test this processor and find out its hashrates for the most popular CPU mining algorithms for cryptocurrencies.

Lolminer 1.63 improved hashrate and energy efficiency in Kaspa mining

In the latest version of Lolminer 1.63, the developers have improved the hash rate of the RTX 2000, RTX 3000 and RTX 4000 video cards on the KheavyHash algorithm (Kaspa cryptocurrency) by 3.5%. It may seem that such a slight increase in the hashrate is not worth much attention, but if you consider that with an increase in the hashrate, the developers also managed to reduce the power consumption of video cards, due to which the energy efficiency of mining on Nvidia video cards improved by 7-11% depending on the video card model. Reducing electricity costs without a drop in hashrate is already worth your attention when almost all mining income goes to pay for electricity. And in this case, you will also receive a bonus in the form of an increased hashrate, which definitely deserves to spend a few minutes updating the miner. You can download the latest version of lolminer 1.63 on GitHub, also lolminer 1.63 is already available in HiveOS.