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As a guess I would say there is some kind of latency issue that impacts mining performance.ДЄs for the RX 500 and 400 series GPUs, memory capacity clearly isnвЂ™t the issue as the 8GB cards still suffer. The GTX 1080's performance is a tad confusing, everyone points to the GDDR5X memory as the issue, no one seems to know why. But that doesnвЂ™t matter, the idea was to give you an idea how GPUs compare and how they should compare well into the future as well. My brief look into Ethereum mining performance was interesting, but I have to say this whole mining craze just doesnвЂ™t get me excited. Meanwhile the R9 390 series barely sees a change while the GeForce 10 series sees no change at all.

The same kind of decline can be seen for all RX 400 and 500 series GPUs. The GTX 1080 tanks though and surprisingly the GTX 1070 is faster here, apparently this is down to an issue GDDR5X has when it comes to mining, despite offering more memory bandwidth itвЂ™s actually slower for mining, go figure.ДЄs we move to epoch 150 the RX 580 can be seen falling behind the GTX 1080 as the hash rate decreases by 9%. They arenвЂ™t much slower than the Titan XP and 1080 Ti. In fact, the RX 470 and 570 are offering a similar level of performance, as are the older R9 380 series. Here the RX 580 still looks good in relation to the GTX 1060 series.

So IвЂ™ve skipped epoch 130 and started testing at 140. So if you're looking at snapping up a few GPUs to mine Ethereum you're probably not that interested in performance right at this very moment. Anyway letвЂ™s take a look at the resultsвЂ¦ Benchmarks

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As of writing, it isnвЂ™t clear if this is simply a driver issue or a weakness of the Polaris 10 architecture. So this may be bad news for those that snapped up Radeon RX 470/480 and Radeon RX 570/580 graphics cards. Something miners started to notice was as the DAG increased in size AMD Radeon 400/500 series cards took a performance hit, whereas the GeForce 10 series and older AMD Radeon 200/300 series cards didnвЂ™t. For example, at the start of the month Ethereum was at DAG epoch #126 and now we're already over #130 and next month we should hit #140, but donвЂ™t hold me to that. A new DAG is generated for each epoch around every 30,000 blocks and right now it is estimated that this will happen every 4 days or so. As the DAG file size increases, so too does the difficulty. I felt it important to test various DAG file sizes to show future performance as well. Chances are the other clients can do this as well, I just didnвЂ™t work out how. Second, I worked out a way to benchmark using different DAG (directed acyclic graph) file sizes. Number one was it worked really well with the current generation AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Parity is another popular client, but instead I decided to use ClaymoreвЂ™s Dual Ethereum miner version 9.6 for a few reasons. Initially I started testing with the go-ethereum client but started to find mixed results with certain GPUs, I wasnвЂ™t sure why that was and couldnвЂ™t solve a few issues, so I scrapped the results and moved on.

Graphics card benchmark software#

We are often asked what the best GPUs to mine with are, and since we didnвЂ™t have an exact answer we decided to find out.ДЇirst, I should note that performance can vary significantly depending on the display driver used, the software client used, and the configuration of the graphics card, so please take this as a rough performance guide. Cryptocurrency mining is big news at the moment and it seems just about everyone wants in on the action. Today we're going to take a quick look at how current generation GPUs, along with a few older ones, perform when put to the task of Ethereum mining.