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This $8000 video card is probably the best mining circuit in the world

15 January 2018 21:00, UTC

A team of video bloggers called BuriedONE Cryptomining has conducted an interesting experiment with the very powerful video card issued by NVidia for servers, data centers and even modern artificial intelligence technologies. In the future, all video cards might become this powerful, but right now it has one of the most advanced hardware technologies.

Naturally, BuriedONE decided to see if this card is capable of fast mining and make a video out of that. Looks like this video card has achieved the results previously unseen (at least by this blogger): 94 MH/s, while, as the media specifies, the overclocked Titan XP can achieve 40 MH/s and Radeon RX Vega 64 can perform 42 MH/s at its maximum.

MH/s stands for millions of hashes per second, the speed of the hardware solving mathematical algorithms to get Ethereum (in this case). The blogger also tried to mine ZCash and Monero, and quite naturally, the graphics card outperformed its rivals, as the mining difficulty of both ZCash and Monero is not as difficult as that of Ethereum.

Cryptocurrency mining can become the catalyst for developing new hardware technologies, effectively benefitting other spheres who need powerful graphics card: 3D designers, AI developers and, of course, gamers.