One of the world's largest technology hardware makers has announced new graphics cards (GPUs) aimed at the cryptocurrency mining market.
Taiwan-based manufacturer Asus revaeled the Mining RX 470 and Mining P106, which were designed to handle the energy and heat intensive process of mining. Though not expressly pitched as such, the release is undoubtedly aimed at capturing some of the interest in mining ethereum. Bitcoin mining, by comparison, has evolved to a stage in which application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, are required to compete.
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Seems like just another reason to throw some shitty binned chips onto a board with no display and cross fingers that they don't go bad within the 1 year warranty. Just dumbfounds me why anyone would get these when they can get regular/gaming cards with display output (++++ resale value) that has more than a 1 year warranty? I swear I've gotta be missing something here, or the person doing the pricing on these cards needs to get fired ASAP.
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With some fine-tuning, they are likely stable overclocked a little bit more. The memclock can be overclocked much more than I expected. These cards are basically GTX 1060s. The main advantages are availability, slightly lower price (current market), and reliability. They fans and heatsinks do appear to be a little beefier than standard.
Unfortunately, these cards are not released in the US yet. I am in China, getting them direct.
At ASUS website https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/MINING-P106-6G/ I have compared it with GTX1060 6GB (I think is intended to be an option to the 1060) and found a difference in the PCI-Express: one is PCI-e 1.0 and the other is PCI-e 3.0.
Does this make difference for a mining rig performance?
And at ovet 300 bucks...LOL. Yeah, I'll just keep scooping up the gamer cards between 200 and 250.