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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by dbcooper on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:28AM (#14889456)
OK. Memory bandwidth for the Vega 56 part is 410GB/s, vs. 256 and 224 for the RX 580 and 570 respectively.
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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by rothbardrand on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:39AM (#14889497)
Right, those are good numbers for the price, comparable to the 1080 Ti, so this bodes well for using them for mining... however we will have to see if there are any gotchas (the access patterns for mining are different than for games, so for instance GDDR5X was less effective than GDDR5 despite being theoretically faster.)
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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by dbcooper on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:56AM (#14889559)
Was that due to increased latency?
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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by rothbardrand on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:17AM (#14889625)
That would be my guess, that the bandwidth was very high but the latency was higher than the cheaper part, maybe not all the time, but in a way that affected this hashing algorithm.
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Re:Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship gra... by digitalshankar on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:20AM (#14889636)
No, that because you upgraded to Windows 10.
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