Mining hardware

Lolminer has unlocked 78% of the capabilities of Nvidia LHR graphics cards. Video card tests.

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In its 3000 series of video cards, Nvidia began releasing video cards with the prefix LHR, which in mining Ethereum cryptocurrency began to show twice lower hash rate than similar video cards, but without this blocking. Since Ethereum cryptocurrency is the most popular GPU mining cryptocurrency and at the same time the most profitable for mining, so all developers of specialized mining software began to look for ways to circumvent these artificial restrictions. As of April 2022, the best results in unlocking LHR were achieved by the developers of Lolminer miner. Starting with version 1.47 Lolminer managed to unlock up to 78% of the capabilities of such video cards.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 Ti hash rate video card on different mining algorithms

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Nvidia at the end of March 2022 released the most powerful gaming graphics card of RTX 3000 series - Geforce RTX 3090 Ti with recommended price of 2000 USD. The main advantage of RTX 3090 Ti over its predecessor RTX 3090 is faster GDDR6X memory with data transfer rate of 21Gbit/s instead of 19.5Gbit/s. This will primarily affect the new item's hashrate in Ethereum mining. In addition to the new memory Geforce RTX 3090Ti built on another GPU chip - GA102-350, which has 10752 Cuda cores, instead of 10496 Cuda cores in the conventional RTX 3090. How exactly all the innovations will affect the mining of cryptocurrencies we will try to find out in this article.

Intel to unveil first-generation SHA-256 Bonanza Mine ASIC Miner

bonanza mine asic hashrate Not so long ago we already discussed the news that Intel is preparing to present its first bitcoin mining ASIC at ISCC 2022. A few days before the presentation the details and characteristics of the first generation of Bonanza Mine ASIC miner from Intel became known. Which is based on 7nm BZM1 chip, though it is not specified at which factory these ASIC chips are produced: Intel or TSMC.

The current table with the hashrate of videocards for 2022

hashrate of video cards on popular mining algorithms

As of early 2022, video card mining continues to be quite profitable, despite the fact that the mining boom has been going on for over a year, which in itself is not an ordinary event. All last year, as well as several years before, the most popular and profitable cryptocurrency for mining remains Ethereum with the mining algorithm Ethash or Dagger-Hashimoto. Also in 2021 we can observe a trend of using algorithms similar to Ethash (Kawpow, FiroPow, Etchash) for mining altcoins, i.e. using DAG files to load them into video card memory. Which requires video cards with at least 4Gb of video memory to mine. Recall that Ethereum mining requires 6Gb of video memory.

SK Hynix promises fastest GDDR6 memory at 27Gbit/s

sk hynix hbm3 gddr6 In December, we already wrote about Samsung achievements in the production of GDDR6 memory, which is 50% faster than GDDR6 used in the current generations of video cards. As a reminder, Samsung offers GDDR6 at 24Gbit/s for ordering. The second major memory company SK Hynix did not stand aside and at the ISSCC 2022 conference will present its answer in the form of GDDR6 memory with a bandwidth of 27Gbit/s, which is currently a record.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 hashrate in Ethereum mining

rtx 3050 mining ethereum hasharte The new budget video card from Nvidia RTX 3050 due to its technical characteristics should be a worthy substitute for GTX 1060, GTX 1660 and RX 580, RX5500XT video cards in Ethereum mining, but it is much more energy efficient. Since the memory bandwidth of RTX 3050 (224Gbit/s) is comparable to the above mentioned graphics cards, but it is made on a more modern technological process.

Intel to release its own asic chip for Bitcoin mining - Bonanza Mine

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At the ISSCC 2022 conference, Intel is planning to present its own Bitcoin mining chip called Bonanza Mine. Intel representatives are scheduled to speak at 7:00 AM PST on February 23, and the full title of the presentation is "Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC". Intel made the first statements on work on cryptocurrency mining devices back in 2018, when the patent "Optimized SHA-256 datapath for energy-efficient high-performance Bitcoin mining" was registered.

Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd - the most powerful asic miner for bitcoin mining

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Bitmain announced a new asic miner for the SHA-256 algorithm with a hash rate of 198 TH/s, which is currently the most powerful device for mining Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The novelty is called Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd, i.e. it is not a new generation of ASIC, but the current extension of the 19 series of Bitmain ASIC. Moreover, S19 PRO+ Hyd is not the most energy efficient solution, as it offers energy efficiency of only 27.5 J/TH. In comparison, the S19 XP model can offer 21.5 J/TH, i.e. the S19 XP consumes 28% less per 1TH.

Mining on laptops with Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 graphics cards

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About mining on laptops with mobile graphics cards Nvidia RTX 3060 RTX 3070, RTX 3080 is already known much if not all, because since January 2021, when laptops with these graphics cards went on sale, they are actively used in mining Ethereum cryptocurrency. Unlike the older versions of the graphics cards RTX 3050 Mobile and RTX 3050 ti Mobile miners bypassed because of the 4GB video buffer (not enough for mining Ethereum) and the later release May - June, when the price of the cryptocurrency has dropped in half from 60.000USD to 30.000 USD per Bitcoin. When you consider that laptops with RTX 3050ti are selling at a price of 1000USD, which corresponds to the current market price of a full graphics card Nvidia GTX 1660 Super, then buying such a laptop with the prospect of its use in mining cryptocurrencies looks not so stupid idea. Especially because the hash rate of RTX 3050 Ti and GTX 1660 Super on KawPow, Zhash and other mining algorithms is almost equal.

New GDDR6 memory from Samsung will increase video card hashrate by 50%

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Samsung announced new GDDR6 video memory chips with increased data transfer rates of 20Gbps and 24Gbps at the end of 2021. The new chips are fully compatible with JEDEC specifications for GDDR6 standard. This will allow the release of improved versions of the current generations of video cards, which use 16Gbps GDDR6 memory, with minimal effort. I.e. just introduced memory from Samsung is exactly 50% more productive than current solutions. That is exactly what AMD did this summer, when a limited edition of Radeon RX 6900XT LC graphics cards with water cooling and 18.5Gbps GDDR6 memory hit the shelves instead of 16Gbps for the standard RX 6900XT model.

Intel and AMD processor hashrate on GhostRider algorithm, Raptoreum cryptocurrency

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Mining on CPUs is not as popular as mining on video cards or asics, but even despite this there are new projects focused on mining with CPUs. One of such new projects is Raptoreumcryptocurrency with hybrid system of work confirmation, i.e. it is possible to mine Raptoreum cryptocurrency by two ways: mining and stacking (POW&POS). Raptoreum cryptocurrency mining is based on the unique GhostRider algorithm with protection against mining on video cards and asics. If you are interested in mining cryptocurrencies on CPUs, you should definitely pay attention to this project, because today the yield of mining is about 3 times higher than mining of the popular Monero cryptocurrency, based on the CPU-oriented RandomX algorithm.

Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max tested in mining Monero cryptocurrency (RandomX)

Apple M1 Max, M1 Pro test in mining cryptocurrency Monero hashrate Almost a month has passed since the October 18, 2021 presentation of Apple's new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 MAX processors, but there is still a lot of praise and debate online about the advantages and disadvantages of Apple's new ARM processors. If you closely follow the computer market and Apple products in particular, you probably already know about the capabilities of the new MacBook Pro for work and games. But how the Apple laptops will behave in cryptocurrency mining is also no less interesting, especially because this information can further add fire to the already heated debate in the confrontation between Apple, AMD and Intel.

Bitmain Antminer S19XP - 140TH/s, 3010W, 5nm

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Bitmain at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) conference in Dubai on November 9-10, 2021 will present a new asic miner for Bitcoin cryptocurrency mining, i.e. an asic for SHA-256 mining algorithm. The name is expected to be Antminer S19XP, ie it will not be a completely new generation, but an improvement of the current solution Antminer S19 PRO. The improvement will be in the use of a more modern 5nm process instead of 7nm, which will improve the power efficiency and hashrate of the asics. Expected Bitmain Antminer S19XP specifications: 140TH/s 3010W, 21.5W/TH. Energy efficiency is 30% better than the previous model Antminer S19 Pro: 110TH/s, 3250W, 29.5W/TH. Information about prices and delivery dates of the first batch of devices at the moment are not known.

Intel Core i9 12900K - hashrate on GhostRider, RandomX, Verushash algorithms

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On November 4, 2021, Intel launched the new 12th generation of its X86 Core processors with a completely redesigned architecture that includes full and power-efficient cores, as has long been the custom for ARM processors for cell phones. The most powerful Alder Lake generation processor solution is the Intel Core i9 12900K with 24 cores and 30 MB of L3 cache. The 24 cores are derived from 8 full X86 cores with hyperthreading (16 threads) and 8 energy efficient cores without hyperthreading. As nowadays cryptocurrency mining is no less interesting than gamble and work tasks, so it will be no less interesting to know how much the top Intel processor shows hash rate on popular mining processor algorithms.

Hashrate video cards on the FiroPow algorithm, Firo cryptocurrency

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Firo cryptocurrency, formerly known as Zcoin, held another hardfork on October 26, in which it changed its mining algorithm from MTP to FiroPow. Whereas MTP hash rate only depended on the GPU chip, FiroPow mining directly involves the onboard memory of video cards. FiroPow is another version of the ProgPow algorithm, to which the transition of Ethereum cryptocurrency was once considered. FiroPow, like Ethereum, has a Dag file that must be kept in video card memory, but the hash rate of the video card depends more on the performance of the GPU chip than on the memory bandwidth. Firo cryptocurrency's DAG file size was originally set to just over 4Gb, so all video cards with less video memory will not be able to mine this cryptocurrency.

Nvidia RTX A2000 - a great graphics card for Ethereum mining

nvidia rtx a2000 ethereum hashrate videocard you can check the profitability of mining on RTX A2000 videocard at Profit-mine.com

Nvidia, apart from gaming Geforce video cards, produces video cards on the same chips for mining CMP and professional models, which are designated as RTX A2000, RTX A4000, etc. If earlier professional models of video cards were not considered for purchase for mining due to higher prices, but now due to the alignment of the prices of gaming and professional models, as well as due to lack of LHR restrictions in the professional models of video cards Nvidia, such solutions in mining cryptocurrencies in recent years have been used more and more often. The recently released junior professional model RTX A2000 was not only not an exception, but on the contrary, it turned out to be quite attractive for cryptocurrency miners.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 hash rate in Ethereum, Ravencoin cryptocurrency mining

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AMD on October 13, 2021 introduced the Radeon RX 6600 graphics card without the XT prefix with a recommended price of $329. Compared to Radeon RX 6600XT, the novelty has less logic processors, the same data bus of 192 bits, but slower DDR6 memory. Because of that memory bandwidth will be a bit less than 224Gbit/s, instead of RX6600XT's 256Gbit/s. That should primarily affect the hash of this video card in Ethereum cryptocurrency mining.

BC-160 - dedicated video card for mining from AMD

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Amid the boom of cryptocurrency mining on video cards, Nvidia in early 2021 released specialized devices based on CMP video cards, thus repeating its move in 2017, when video cards for mining P106, P104 and P102 were released. The main competitor, in the form of AMD, ignored such marketing moves, but it seems that soon we will also see specialized video cards for mining from AMD. As on the Internet spread photos and tests in mining previously unknown video card, codenamed BC-160.

Nvidia CMP 170HX - the most productive video card in mining

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Nvidia introduced a line of video cards for mining back in February 2021. While consumer video cards have the designation GTX or RTX, video cards only for mining (no video outputs) have the designation CMP (Crypto Mining Processor). Initially, four models of such devices were prepared for miners with designations: CMP 30HX, CMP 40HX, CMP 50HX and CMP 90HX, where the numerical designation indicates the number of MH in Ethereum mining. But near the end of the summer it became known about the previously unplanned CMP 170HX model, where, judging by the name, a similar device will have to show 170MH/s.

USB Riser V012 with temperature sensor

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Recently we have already talked about the latest generation of USB Riser number 10, which has already gained enough popularity and is in demand for the construction of mining rigs. But as it turned out, there is a newer version of 12 USB Riser, the distinctive feature of which is the presence of a temperature sensor and digital display for its mapping. The temperature sensor is located on the board itself riser, so it can display the temperature of the outside air near the graphics card in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit (to switch is a special button). Compared with the 10th version, to install a digital display and temperature sensor, we had to give up the 3rd power connector, LEDs and reduce the number of capacitors. Therefore the Riser 12 version is closer in its electrical characteristics to simpler versions, such as 006, than to the previously considered 10 version. The necessity and usefulness of the riser with a temperature sensor can be questioned, because it is much easier to install a temperature sensor in the Mining Rig case as a standalone device, which will not only show the data on the display, but also transmit it to a smartphone or to the Mining Rig operating system via a USB connector, and the temperature sensor can be placed anywhere in the case (depending on the model). That's why we don't recommend to buy the 12 model risers and it's better to opt for the 10 or 6 version.