Would you recommend AMD cards for mining. I'm looking forward to buy RX 480 but I am not sure because there are many opinions for pros and cons of Nvidia vs Amd mining cards. Any help? Thanks for this article very much, very helpful to future miners.
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The AMD cards seem to be preferred so much that there is a shortage! Trying to actually order one is challenging and for that reason I think I might start with NVIDIA because they are easy to order.
I don't understand these prices of card going from 100 to 1000$. Will be going for NVIDIA for altcoins. Maybe 2 cards for the start. Celeron, power supply and 4 gb RAM. My opinion is that it's better to mine low price and difficulty coins like Siacoin et cetera.
Check out nicehash.com for comparisons and projections of returns for various cards
I got a Sapphire RX580 Nitro+ Limited Edition at 27MH/s, estimated to mine 0.01X ETH per day. The whole setting consumes ~500W/h (it would be more power efficient in multi-GPU), you may take mine as reference. AMD is saying to be better than NVIDIA based on the power efficiency. You can see the higher hash rate of 1070 / 1080, but the price is higher as well.
Nvidia cards are more expensive to buy in general, but also more efficient. With electricity in Germany being 3x the price of north American electricity, it would have been a really bad idea for me to go and even pay a premium just to get one of the few AMD cards available.