Best Graphics Cards For Mining

Buying the right Graphic Cards makes a great impact on your mining returns, and the aesthetics of the rig if you care about how fancy it looks.

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Última actualización: 01/08/2022
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This article is now updated here: Top 5 GPUs For Mining
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Why It's Important To Pick The Right Graphic Cards

  • Main variable on your mining returns
  • Makes sure you are getting the best bang for your buck.
  • Leaves you win an aesthetically pleasing mining rig
  • Resell value if you ever choose to stop mining

AMD VS NVIDIA VS Mining Dedicated Cards

For the longest time AMD was the mother of all Mining Cards, the RX 470/480/570/580 won the heart of the Mining Community, they are cheap and super efficient, but are they still worth it in 2019?

There are always updates in the Cryptocurrency mining world. In the upcoming months, Monero will be switching their algorithm to RandomX, which is known for it being CPU Friendly, therefore which can negatively affect AMD Cards, since they perform very well in Monero mining, but then you are left with Ethash which AMD dominates. However, there have been some rumors that Ethereum will change algorithms as well but that is yet to be confirmed.

Mining Dedicated Cards

Mining Dedicated Cards are more efficient and they’re only usable for Cryptocurrency mining, you can’t use them as a regular Graphic Card.

They come in very handy in any rigs that have more than 13 PCI-E slots, the reason being that it reduces strain on the system and they take less computational power for your rig to maintain and it always seems that above 13 normal GPUs the rig can become unstable.

Which One Should You Buy?

We recommend buying:

  • NVIDIA Cards – specifically the GTX 1660 TI and the RTX 2060. They perform great in many more algorithms than AMD and they will retain a good resell value since they are still newly released Graphic Cards.
  • Vega VII is also a very great card for mining but unfortunately seems like they stopped producing them.
  • or Mining Dedicated Cards – would be great if you are trying to achieve any 13 + Cards Rig, 1-13 NVIDIA, and 1-13 AMD then the rest populate with Mining Dedicated Cards. P104-100 is a good one to pick up, they perform exceptionally well for the price range)
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What Impacts Your Mining Performance

Many factors can go into impacting your mining performance reasons to consider are:

  • You might’ve not configured your Graphics Cards to be ready to start hashing blocks
  • You’re mining the least efficient coin so the algorithm isn’t the best with your Graphics Card
  • You live in a very high-temperature region, which does affect mining largely depending on your cooling.

Maintaining Your Equipment

Can’t over-stress this enough. Please maintain the equipment, dust it every other month, and keep it neat and away from dirt and danger.

All this takes a toll on your rig, the more dust the less efficient, and more heat will come forth.

I’d recommend buying a Duster (Compressed Air Cans or The Electronic Duster) to make it easier on yourself and a fan (Best Fan we have been using for a while) to help reduce the heat.

Do NOT place your mining rig on a carpet since it leads to plenty of dust being absorbed by the fans. Try to set your Rig somewhere high – out of reach from your house pets or children.

Overclocks & Configuration

Overclocking is a must for Mining. Make sure to undervolt your cards since it will make a huge difference in wattage consumption and the heat it generates, less watts means less heat. We will be writing an article on overclocking your cards and making them Mining ready.

The configuration will refer to all the background services and unnecessary noise for your computational power, make sure you took the needed setup steps in our previous article ‘How To Setup a Mining Rig

Mining Algorithm Impact

Some Graphic Cards are not efficient in some mining algorithms, which mainly comes down to NVIDIA or AMD cards.

They both have their ups and downs, NVIDIA is well known for their Cuda Cores intensive algorithms like (MTP, X16R), And AMD is known for their Memory intensive algorithms (Ethash, CryptonightR).

We will explain in the next part what you should get and which will be better for the long term.

Aesthetics

Having a good-looking mining rig is not a must, however, we do recommend it because it promotes you to cable manage and keep dust away which will ultimately improve the life expectancy of your graphics cards.

We recommend buying the same model for your entire rig and then pimping it up with some LED strip.

Dual Fan Style keeps the fan cooler and it is also less lousy than the Turbo Style.

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