Does mining require video storage
Why use graphics card to mine
compared with CPU, GPU is used for general purpose calculation. So it can stack hundreds of stream processors awesome. Each stream processor is like a small CPU. Although its ability to run complex programs is far from the power of CPU, it can not support many processors, so the actual performance, especially the single precision floating point performance is much stronger than that of CPU. p> However, as we have mentioned before, a card is very suitable for general computing such as virtual currency because it has many stream processors, and the speed of obtaining specific solutions is much higher than that of N card. Therefore, many miners rush to buy a card to calculate virtual currency for profit
of course, with NVIDIA's Pascal graphics card, n card's ability in mining virtual currency is not as different as a card before. So in the current situation that a card is generally out of stock, those mid-range N cards have become the second choice for miners
What are the disadvantages of mine cardfinally, I want to talk about why we can't choose mine card when we are shopping for second-hand cards. Because the miners are mining bitcoin, the most important thing is to seek profits. Therefore, the graphics card they use is running and calculating all the time, and its strength is far greater than that of daily game applications. In other words, running such a calculation for one day is equivalent to running a graphics card for one month
in addition, the places where virtual currency is mined are mostly the places where multiple graphics cards gather. Thousands of graphics cards are constantly calculating in a room, and their heat is also quite huge. Miners can not choose the chassis with good heat dissipation conditions like ordinary consumers, so that the heat can be released smoothly. In this way, the graphics cards can still operate for 7 * 24 hours under high temperature conditions, It also deepens its aging degree
the result of doing so is that the graphics cards used for mining are lost prematurely. If you buy these graphics cards, the result will be unstable operation, restart and other things will continue to happen
moreover, at present, manufacturers also have strict requirements on mine cards, such as banning second-hand sales and shortening the shelf life. If users buy these mine card graphics cards, future maintenance will also be a big challenge
in the early days of the advent of a virtual currency, it was relatively easy to mine. Maybe a CPU with strong enough performance could easily mine the currency
as it becomes more and more difficult to dig money, the CPU has already been unable to cope with the huge computing power required for mining, and the terrible performance of the large-scale stream processor parallel computing in the GPU core of the graphics card is more suitable for mining this kind of parallel computing
therefore, today's professional mining machinery has become the world of GPU and professional chips, in which CPU plays the most coordinating role. Moreover, with the increase of mining difficulty, the demand for the display memory capacity of the mine card is higher and higher. A few years ago, 2-3gb was enough, but now 6GB may not be enough.
it has nothing to do with video memory
traditionally, amd card retains the ability of double precision calculation. No castration
n card has been castrated greatly. So the computing power is not as good as card a.
first of all, his7970 adopts innovative black hole heat dissipation technology, which is especially suitable for multi card exchanges
another point is that n-card is not recommended. The mining efficiency of a-card is much higher than that of n-card
I suggest you use i7 3970 CPU and 1500W power supply
according to this efficiency, you need to dig for about two and a half years to get back the cost.
It depends on the computing power of GPU and CPU instead of the computing speed. Although there is no big difference, because the computing principle of graphics card is different from CPU, and mining needs distributed computing. In this kind of computing, graphics card GPU is better than CPU
