Bitmain To Release Ethereum ASIC Miner - The Antminer F3

CryptoManiac

Hello,

Bitmain is working on ASIC miner for Ethereum. Probably spec.: 650MH/s @ 750Watts

https://steemit.com/technology/@cloh76/bitmain-to-release-ethereum-asic-miner-the-antminer-f3

What do you think? Is this real? Is this will be end of gpu mining, at least for ethash algorithm?

Ericjh801

Tons of other algo's out there to mine. Also I thought ETH was suppose to be asic resistant (whatever that means, i'm not sure anyone really knows for sure). It will be interesting. 650 MHS at 750w would be amazing and probably kill GPU mining of ETH.

peshetoman

smoke and mirrors if you ask me...

techtot

@cryptomaniac, I don't believe those specs are right, 650mh @ 750watts ? That would be unreal. That's almost a Mh per watt. If they could do that, I would think Nvidia or AMD would have much better efficiency already. I would say that the F3 will be more comparable to the pandaminer..

cidmo

HBM is almost completely not optimized for mining but has insane bandwidth
650Mh at 750watts is not out of the question

rmh

cidmo said:

HBM is almost completely not optimized for mining but has insane bandwidth
650Mh at 750watts is not out of the question

The rumors never said about HBM, i've heard DDR3.

cidmo

i wasnt referring to the actual cards they are using
i was talking about [email protected]
but even with DDR3 depending on the memory controller and 2 sided chips
they could easily get enough bandwidth out of DDR3
gaming GPU are designed for highest bandwidth possible at the lowest latency
a dagger algo specific mining GPU doesnt need to stick to those parameters

peshetoman

in reddit a dude calculated that with DDR3 most they can do is 168mh/s . DDR3 is diffrent from GDDR3(video cards use this one) check reddit for details.

Ericjh801

Still 168 mhs at 750 watts. I guess that's not too far off from what video cards are pulling (at least for rx 580's). But if the price is right, that will make a difference.

cidmo

peshetoman said:

in reddit a dude calculated that with DDR3 most they can do is 168mh/s . DDR3 is diffrent from GDDR3(video cards use this one) check reddit for details.

i would assume the F3 would come in multi ASIC formats since they run in pcie
so if 168 is max prolly 6 down clocked cards till later gens
looks like u might be able to buy the individual cards too
who knows what type of API there is for them tho
these things kinda look like those intel GPU
if they have that much ram on them tho they might not be very cheap
might be at least 5x the MSRP RX570

edit
nvm i was think it was these
https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/17264/did-anyone-know-about-bitmain-f3#latest
i opened the article and looks like bitmain has some sort of proprietary cards
if thats the case i hope their price point is much lower than $3k
those individual cards are far more optimal for even some large scale farmers