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Albert Szmigielski
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Albert Szmigielski

Albert Szmigielski is a thinker, a computing scientist, a software engineer, and a blockchain professional. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Digital Currency. He has been involved in a number of start-ups and software projects. He believes in a decentralized, distributed nature of storing information, and hence has an interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Albert is a researcher at CryptoIQ and a mentor at the Blockchain Institute. He frequently contributes to his blog at blog.cryptoIQ.ca.
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Benchmarks of mining speeds with different GPUs


As we mentioned earlier, the Bitcoin network hash rate is really high now. Mining with GPUs is no longer guaranteed to bring profits. This is due to the fact that during the mining process you are competing with other miners to try to solve a block. If those other miners are running on faster hardware, you will be at a disadvantage, as your hardware can only make a certain number of guesses (hashes) in a given time frame.

To compare the mining speed of a few GPU's, look at the following table:

GPU

Mining speed (MH/s)

Power used (Watts)

AMD 4870

90

150

AMD 5770

240

100

AMD 5830

300

125

AMD 5850

400

180

AMD 5870

480

200

AMD 5970

800

350

AMD 6990

800

400

NVIDIA GT-210

4

30

NVIDIA GTX-280

60

230

NVIDIA GTX-480

140

250

NVIDIA Tesla S1070

155

800

NVIDIA Tesla S2070

750

900

Table: 3.1: Comparison of mining speed of GPUs

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Albert Szmigielski

Albert Szmigielski is a thinker, a computing scientist, a software engineer, and a blockchain professional. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Digital Currency. He has been involved in a number of start-ups and software projects. He believes in a decentralized, distributed nature of storing information, and hence has an interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Albert is a researcher at CryptoIQ and a mentor at the Blockchain Institute. He frequently contributes to his blog at blog.cryptoIQ.ca.
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