How to overclock Nvidia and AMD video cards for mining on different algorithms
2021 is the year of massive popularity of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has already taken the 58 thousand level, and smaller coins do not sleep and also set new historical highs. At the same time, the popularity of mining has grown significantly. For example, if at the end of November 11 thousand people mined cryptocurrency on the 2Miners mining pool, now there are more than 39 thousand of them. If you’ve also decided to join coin mining and do it with Nvidia graphics cards, this article is for you. We will tell you how to overclock video cards to increase profits and how to do it correctly for different algorithms.
Материал подготовил Трушин Денис, руководитель отдела развития перспективных технологий ООО "АДМ-ТЕХНО".
Miners provide cryptocurrency protection against possible attacks or canceled transactions. The more miners, the better the protection of the network and the more difficult it is to carry out an attack on it, up to the impossibility of an attack due to the lack of the necessary amount of necessary mining equipment in the world (an attacker cannot find such a number of video cards for rent that will provide 50% of the hash rate of the attacked network) …
For this work, any cryptocurrency network of the PoW (Proof of Work) system pays the miners with their coins. They come from the issuance of new coins and transaction fees. When miners find a new block in the cryptocurrency network, they receive a reward for this – a pole commission from transfers that were included in this block.
What cryptocurrencies to mine in 2021?
At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, Ethereum was the most profitable coin in mining. It is also Ethereum, ETH, or simply “ether” in miner’s jargon.
Для эффективного майнинга эфира в 2021 году необходима карта с 5 ГБ и больше видеопамяти на видеокарте.
Nvidia graphics card shortage
Those video cards that can no longer mine Ether are relatively profitable to mine Ravencoin RVN, but more on that below.
Setting up overclocking of Nvidia and AMD video cards for Ethereum mining
If you do not want to delve into the intricacies of the settings, but just look for the cherished values, then they are given below in our tables. But we advise you to read the entire article and understand how overclocking and tuning video cards for mining works. After reading, you will be able to fine tune your cards and get higher hash rates and less electricity consumption, which, of course, will lead to higher profits. But if you need to “quickly”, “immediately”, “too lazy to delve into” – then use our tables. Install MSI Afterburner to configure overclocking for video cards if you don’t already have it.
We found out the ideal overclocking settings for Nvidia and AMD graphics cards and collected them in a table. The columns show device models, core frequency, memory frequency, power limit and expected hash rate. First, here are the data for Nvidia video cards.
Overclocking Nvidia graphics cards
And AMD data.
Overclocking AMD graphics cards
We decided to delve into the process of overclocking and setting up video cards for mining, then read on.
