Back in the days when the Litecoin started to become more valuable and when it was still possible to mine those coins with graphics cards instead of specific ASIC - which are now used for that purpose - ocaholic was also actively working on securing it’s slice of the cake. These days, since the price of Ethereum simply exploded, there is another mining hype going on and on that background a ton of hardware enthusiasts decided to fire up their rigs again and buying all GPUs that are possibly available on the market.


The whole situation with GPU availability, especially when it comes to Radeon RX 480 and 580 cards is really bad and even the old, second hand R9 290 cards are going to through the roof. Bottom line if you’re going to invest your money into graphics cards for mining these days you better make sure you buy something that’s worth it.

In the case of mining what you want is a card that’s as energy efficient as possible for the job at hand. Basically you want the highest possible hash-rate per KW/h. For those of you that are not too familiar with mining, the hash-rate is the measurement unit regarding mining.

Apparently it looks like Nathan from Legitreviews got hooked on mining himself and he ended up testing numerous cards, posting their specific hash-rates and coming up with a conclusion which cards he would prefer. After he had finished the article he went on testing even more cards finding out what the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 and 1070 could do, which were two cards that were missing in the first testing batch.

If you’re serious about cryptocurrency mining these days or if you want to get an overview on the topic, I can recommend all the articles Nathan is writing up on Legit Review on this topics.




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