That Ethereum mining set up- is it the same pain in the a*** to set up as it was with Bitcoins? I think I still have around ?80 from bitcoin mining in now bankrupt MTGox.
That Ethereum mining set up- is it the same pain in the a*** to set up as it was with Bitcoins? I think I still have around ?80 from bitcoin mining in now bankrupt MTGox.
It is definitely harder to use, which is why the hashrate is lower.Originally Posted by muziqaz
Granted, it's pretty easy once you've tinkered for an hour or so.
You'd need to download Geth (Go Ethereum client), setup a wallet with passphrase, run it in RPC mode (so that the miner can reach it), then download Ethereum C++ client, install, and run ethminer -G from command line. You can select specific opencl devices as well, to easily use multiple GPUs. It certainly isn't as pretty or simple to use as the Litecoin client was.
I mentioned Ethereum was at $3.70/coin this morning. It is at $4.25 as of right now.
Recently i saw some rumors about a possible 232mm2 amd gpu.
Such a gpu would end up having around ~4.6 - 5 billion transistors so it would probably end up having similar performance to 285 - 380 - 380x.
According to amd claims about at least 2x efficiency increase tdp should be around ~120W.
Do you guys believe that this is polaris 11 gpu?
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Yeah, I think the 232mm^2 rumour is pointing to the Polaris 11 GPU.
I posted on a different thread that this probably means it will have 3072 shaders, give or take 512 depending on various design aspects, etc.
There is no way its going to have more than 3072 shaders. Even this number is quite large. 290x has over 6 billion transistors and has less than 3000 cores.
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Yes, I believe but your performance expectation/estimation is extremely low.
If that 14nm 232 sq mm chip equals a 28nm 366 sq mm, then I would call this a uber fail.
Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-polaris-gpu-...#ixzz40FjidpR0According to the information we have about the 14nm LPP process, and based on transistor density increase, a 232mm? GPU would be roughly equivalent to a 464mm? 28nm processor ? at the same TDP levels. Since we already know that AMD is going to be focusing not just on performance but power efficiency as well ? this number could be be much higher, in fact we will discuss the number AMD is using below.
A 232mm? die multiplied by 2.5 times gives us the performance range of a 28nm 580mm? chip (at the same TDP level) which would be pretty ************ impressive.
The 366 sq mm 28nm chip was the last generation of 28nm. First 28nm gpus offered way higher density because engineers improved drastically transistor density.
Evergreen (40nm first gen) : 6.4 million transistors / mm2
Cayman (40nm last gen) : 6.8 million transistors / mm2
Tahity : 11 million transistors / mm2
Pircairn : 13.2 million transistors / mm2
Tonga : 13.9 million transistors / mm2
Fury : 14.93 million transistors / mm2
My hypothesis on density increase is based on doubling tahity transistor density which was the first arch developed for 28nm. I believe that if they manage to make a card with 22 million transistors / mm2 this wouldnt be a failure at all. You can compare this trend on wikipedia which has all transistor counts for multiple generations of gpus. You can read my first post on this thread for more details.
If you double cayman transistor density you end up with 13.6 million transistors / mm2 which is significantly higher than tahiti achieved.
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Well you can do the maths yourself.
Polaris 10 is between 100 and 120 mm^2. Estimates put it between 1024 and 1280 shaders. A large portion of the chip is "unshader", 40-50% looking at 28nm chips with similar shader counts.
So scale up the shader area whilst keeping the unshader the same to this 232mm^2. How many shaders do you get?
Also, it has been estimated that 14nm has around twice the transistor density of last-generation 28nm.
More? From https://www.chipworks.com/about-chip...ess-technology
TSMC 28nm SRAM Cell: 0.16 ?m^2 in 2012 (so this may have got smaller over time)Earlier this year, we completed a limited analysis of the high density SRAM on the AMD RadeonTM HD 7970 215-0821060 graphics processor, which was fabricated with TSMC’s HP process. Our TEM analysis confirmed the 215-0821060 transistor structure was identical to that seen in the Altera Stratix V device, as would be expected since both are based on the TSMC 28 nm HP process. The 215-0821060 features a 0.16 ?m2 6T-SRAM with the transistors arranged in a uniaxial layout.
Samsung 14nm SRAM Cell: 0.064 ?m^2 in 2014 (LPE) and around 0.05?m^2 in 2015 (LPP?) (http://www.clivemaxfield.com/area51/...ance-x-800.png)
Supposedly clocks could be a good deal higher on 14nm...
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