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Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max by aantix on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:22PM (#29311713)
Would it make sense to mine BTC with it?
Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max by grishka on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:46PM (#29311913)
BTC mining isn't memory-bound, it's compute-bound. The more sha256 hashes you can compute per second, the better. And I'm highly doubtful that any general-purpose hardware at all could even begin to compete with mining ASICs.
Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max by Behemoth66 on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:49PM (#29314084)
Would you or someone happen to know/guess the hash rate of the M1 Max?
Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max by grishka on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:13AM (#29316518)
I don't think there's a definite answer to this. There's no existing bitcoin miner software optimized for Apple hardware. So, do you use the CPU? The GPU? Both? If you do use the GPU, which API do you use to program it?
Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max by officeplant on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:43PM (#29311897)
At this point it doesn't make sense to mine BTC on any GPU.