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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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FPGA versus GPU and CPU mining


As you can see, from a comparison between table 4.1 and tables 3.1 and 2.1, FPGAs hash much faster than any other hardware. The fastest in our list reaches 25,000 MH/s. FPGAs are faster at performing hashing calculations than both CPUs and GPUs. They are also more efficient as measured by the use of electricity per hashing unit. The increase in hashing speed in FPGAs is a significant improvement over GPUs and even more so over CPUs.

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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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