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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by bravetraveler on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:02PM (#32855052)
Depends on the hashing algo -- some make sense for GPUs, others not so much.

I think RandomX, the one related to Monero, is still relatively viable for example.

Ironically this one is still a bit more friendly to CPUs, which everyone seems to have forgotten about.

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by pclmulqdq on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:13PM (#32858538)
RandomX is pretty GPU-hostile. If you have a lot of VRAM, you could theoretically make it work okay, but I don't know of a GPU miner that has any semblance of performance (or perf/watt) that is close to a CPU.
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by bravetraveler on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:56PM (#32860115)
Gotcha, CPUs have been most of my experience with it.

I dabbled with GPUs but it seemed like I'd have to do a lot of clock/voltage tuning to make it worthwhile. This was way before energy prices jumping, too

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