This is compared to just two R9 295X2s (dual GPUs, so four GPUs total) which were drawing 1200W-1400W under load. To the point where I could add in 12 x GTX 1060s across just a couple of PCs, all in less than 1200W. I juggled multiple high-end graphics cards out with freshly purchased GTX 1060s for the perfect mix of lowered temperatures but radically reduced power consumption. Roughly 1.1GH/s which is a massive achievement. I have been doing 15 hour days trying to get this all nailed and at 1GH/s before I wrote another article on it, and here I am. It literally feels like I've been down in a mine for a week. The GTX 1070 even started rising in price at my local retailers in South Australia, from ~$450 AUD ($342 USD) to $550+ AUD ($418 USD). Radeon RX 570s and RX 580s disappeared from e-tailers sites and flew off retailers' shelves. Over two weeks, I went from spending $290 AUD (around $220 USD) for a GTX 1060 3GB to over $360 ($273 USD), for the same product. After the global supply of Radeon cards was in effect, everyone started diving into the GTX 1060s, which were forced off shelves and prices started increasing. The Radeon RX 295X2 was even selling for $1000+ on Amazon and eBay last week, which is bonkers. Older Radeon R9 290, 290X, 390, 390X cards started increasing in price on the second-hand markets globally, and soon too joined the Radeon R9 Fury range of cards (R9 Nano, R9 Fury, R9 Fury X). It had a follow on effect with the older RX 470 and RX 480, before spreading to every other Radeon card on the market.
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This forced the price of RX 500 series through the roof. It started with a huge tide shift of Radeon RX 500 series stock, with the RX 570 and RX 580 selling out. The problem is, both sides are selling out of virtually all mid and high-end graphics cards. It loses to the GTX 1080 Ti, but the GTX 1080 Ti is almost 2.5x its price. AMD Radeon RX 580s are already keeping up with the GTX 1070 when both cards are not tweaked, and it beats the GTX 1080 without a problem, too. I will be moving to AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics cards as soon as I can, taking down a few of my GTX 10 series machines as the new Vega GPU mixed with HBM2 is said to result in "monster cryptocurrency performance." If my sources are correct, Radeon RX Vega is going to be THE graphics card for Ethereum mining. There will be future articles covering those separately, and against each other with Ethereum. I'm riding it right now, but will be diversifying into other cryptocurrencies in the next couple of weeks, including Siacoin and Zcash. But I make up for it with 1GH/s of Ethereum mining power, which will diminish over time as the difficulty gets harder, and now that everyone is diving into it. Well, I pulled myself up and ran into Ethereum mining - late to the game? Yes. This was when the bug started, and off I went on this adventure. At that point, I wrote the " I'm making $900 per month mining Ethereum, I want MORE!" article, which has since blown up. I started on June 6, and by June 7, you can see I was hitting 300MH/s without a problem.
For the systems with 750W/850W PSUs, I've used the power efficient GTX 1060s thanks to their single 6-pin PCIe power connector.
They have special places in three different systems, with one dedicated to Fiji-based GPUs, while another two systems are dedicated to Radeon RX series graphics cards. There's a heap of RX 470/480/570/580 cards, but the R9 Nano, R9 Fury, and R9 Fury X cards are still Ethereum mining behemoths. Spread throughout their own, and intertwined systems are also the cryptocurrency beasts: Radeon R9 Fury series cards, and the impossible to find Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series cards. There's a mix of NVIDIA and AMD in there, with a bunch of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060s because of their great power efficiency - mixed in with GTX 1070s, GTX 1080s, and GTX 1080 Ti cards. Without these, I would be stuck at closer to 20-25 graphics cards. I'm now sitting with 12 systems spread out across 40 graphics cards, thanks to the biggest asset of them all: PCIe x1 to PCIe x16 risers.