Which model to choose, the main nuances when buying
When choosing a card, the user should pay attention to:
- cooling system;
- amount of video memory.
In the store, you cannot find out the manufacturer of memory chips, you can only roughly focus on the manufacturer. But, even batches of gpu from the same factory can be supplied with memory from different suppliers. For example, Elpida chips were installed in March , and Samsung in April .
However, this is not a matter of life and death as well as the choice of a supplier of graphics adapters. Perhaps the SAPPHIRE RX 580 with Samsung memory will be slightly cooler and more stable in mining than the ASUS RX 580 with Micron memory, but there is still no significant difference between them. Assemble the rig correctly and in no case save on the power supply, otherwise you will suffer, and not work.
Most miners buy video cards from:
- Gigabyte;
- MSI;
- SAPPHIRE.
The performance in games with the RX 580 can be compared with the NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 card . But it costs more and is seriously lagging behind the Ethash algorithm. The GTX 1060 3GB video accelerator in 2020 for mining was almost irrelevant , if not for the classic Ethereum, which breathed life into outdated three-gig miners. However, GTX 1060 3GB will last a year at most, and, most likely, less, and, then, get out of the way.
