Loss of mining power in Ethereum for AMD RX 400/500 Series graphics
We could see in the coming days a loss in mining power for Ethereum on graphics cards that have 4GB of VRAM or less, due to an increase in the difficulty of the DAG.
Ethereum has been recovering for a few hours and that is very positive, especially after the appearance of those false rumors that caused its fall. As we mentioned a few days ago, it is possible that mining with AMD RX 400 Series and AMD RX 500 Series graphics cards, specifically, with those graphics cards with 4GB of VRAM memory or less, may have a decrease in performance at the time of mining, losing some Hash along the way, due to some changes that could be made to the ETH blockchain.
Those with graphics with less than 4GB of VRAM are likely to experience a power drop of up to 30% approximately in the coming weeks. This particularly affects the AMD RX 400 Series and AMD RX 500 Series, which is where there are more graphics cards with this amount of VRAM or less. The effect will not be carried to other graphic families such as the R9 290X and the R9 390X, as well as the NVIDIA Pascal, which from the GTX 1060 are already 6GB GDDR5 upwards, which will not notice any change.
If you want to perform a test to know how the change will affect, we must add Benchmark 130 to the ETH Miner. It is quite simple, you only have to change the number 130 for the DAG you want to test. The best would be 140 or 150, allowing you to see your Hash rate in a simple way and thus see the possible changes. This is because Ethash Dag changes every 3000 blocks, which is a period of four or five days. Increasing the DAG requires more power and of course, ETH relies heavily on memory, so the more memory the graphics have, the better for mining.
We must understand that this is part of the difficulty of mining, the other part is the increase in mining equipment. If you increase the number of teams mining, therefore the difficulty of mining increases. Right now, a really significant increase in mining is not expected, so there should be no problems mining at a good pace. The loss of Hash due to the increase in DAG is the most significant, currently.
Source: cryptomoning
So what do you recommend? The gb rx480 won't be affected right?
Should you build a team just to mine with: ryzen 1700, at least 2 480gb rx8s, a 4tb disk (to mine too) and start mining all together on the same PC? energy is not a problem since I already have solar panels and batteries for other projects.
From what I see you do not have much idea in the mining menu to mine and see real gains you need at least 4 GPUs the equipment itself if a low-end pc is mounted (Celeron 8 GB of ram or 4 an economic HDD or a 120 SSD what The only special is the mother that supports 4 pcix1 or 6 and a 1kw platinum and ahurite power source, it is expensive to start more than anything because the rx are expensive ahurite and the 1060 mine little and because of the amount of vram they will not last long if you continue increasing the difficulty as it is ahurita besides that you have to get the special mother as I told you it is not a team similar to one for gaming I would recommend that if you want to mine well better start with 380 or 390 or with Vega than for what It is said that it will mine approx 50mh / s besides that you would have to inform yourself well why once you see that you mine it you have to see the best way to sell it and that I have 2 ahurita rigs and in the 480 of 8gb there is no reduction of MH / s I continue to maintain the 30mh / s in the 1060 of 6gb just pass d e 21mhs to 20mhs from what is read ahurita is that the 4gb rx are already beginning to drown and the 1060 are already on paper for the mining of ethereum in fact varis will begin to mine monero and zcash why they do not have so much difficulty ahurita
Thank you very much for your answer. Now I have 2 r9 295 × 2, but I have only 1 connected because I cannot get any 1500w source in Argentina, is it recommended for eth only? What about connecting 2 power sources directly? it's on an i3 4170, but i was thinking of buying a ryzen 1700 to mine with the processor too. Or is it a lot for 1 team? I await your response, thank you very much for the help.
Mining with a processor is a boring mine more the GPU of an Apu A10 than a ryzen 1800x you can use 2 sources but you should bridge the second source so that the 295 × 2 is always on, it is fine to mine you can mine those you want eth monero zcash etc. etc if you don't want to mine eth mine monero that is still super profitable
Last question, does it matter whether you have PCI Express 2.0 or 3.0? I've got everything set up. I was able to get a 1600 watt power supply, an old processor, a Phenom 2 955 (I couldn't find another one), two R2 9x295 (they cost me the same as RX2s do today) on a TA480GX A790+ motherboard (both GPUs are directly connected to PCI Express without a riser cable). What pools and wallets do you recommend for Ethereum?
The pci do not matter if they are gen 2 or 3 pools I recommend that you test several and portfolios because it is coinwalet but there are pools that specifically ask for one or the other
What the hell is wrong with you that you say "ahurita" so much, and what the hell does "ahurita" mean anyway?
And what the fuck does "you say" mean? What kind of shitty language is that?
Spanish: Spanish, idiot. It is the conjugation of the verb «decir» for the second person singular. It is in the dictionary of the Royal Academy. Now show me a link where the meaning of «ahurita», illiterate primate, is explained.
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In fact, you could already see it coming since the mining began and they recommended not to buy 1060gb nin3 (now useless for mining) or 4 gb rx and by calculations the 1060 has little time left due to the same situation in fact they wait for the exit of the Vega with 16 gb even than ethereum by the same structure to drown graphics of little vram
You are a crack, but only one snag, the Vega of 16gb cost from $ 1000 to $ 1400, how can they be profitable if what is obtained on average for each graph $ 90 or $ 120 per month? I do not get the accounts if Graphics of more than 600 $ are used
You talk about the FE edition which are for the professional sector, those are rarely used for mining, why cost benefit is not much, it is expected that the gaming editions cost less than a 1080 and since according to mining it should yield approximately that of 2 and if it consumes less it will be profitable more than anything because in mining the profitability is seen by the consumption / hash rate, the higher it is, the more profitable in fact right now the most profitable is the 570/470 since they mine even more than a 80, Vega is expected to have a performance of 1070 ~ 60mh / s unlike the 70 of 470 ~ 29mh / s the problem with ethereum is that it will not be possible to mine with ASICs because the complexity dag aggressively increases the memory and has no limit, what they want to do is make the memory more aggressively (instead of asking for 32gb of virtual memory for a 20 gpus rig, ask for progressively more memory) the problem is that to do that you need SSDs and because of so many reads and writes they would melt very quickly and they would completely eliminate Nvidia from the equation since this can only be done (for now) with AMD although the way it is preparing its GPUs in terms of memory it is enough for games for mining they are technically disposable in any case if you want to make a rig I would wait for Vega or Navi since Polaris is already on its way out how things are going and hope that AMD continues to bet on 6GB or more in its GPUs because the way the growth of miners is going the amount of grams will grow much more
8 months and I keep mining with 1060gb gtx 3 and they say crack