Pros and cons of GPU mining

Mining with GPUs has its advantages and disadvantages. Let's examine these in order to better understand if and when it is appropriate to use your GPUs to mine Bitcoin. As you may recall, in the beginning everyone used a CPU to mine bitcoins; then clever people figured out how to do it on GPUs.

Pros of GPU mining

GPU mining is the second step in the mining evolution (first there was CPU mining); it's very useful in the process of understanding mining. We strongly believe that every miner should try mining with a GPU to experience how changing different options affects the speed and efficiency of GPU mining. Most likely, you already have a GPU in your desktop machine. In the process of setting up the software, you will learn all the little tricks that are applicable to your hardware. You will also learn how the GPU compares to more advanced hardware, such as FPGAs and ASICs.

To summarize, we encourage you to try GPU mining for the following reasons:

• If you have a video...