Hedging bets against the rise of ARM processors?
Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
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Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Graphics cards aren't used to mine bitcoin any more. Only chips that are made specifically for mining bitcoin (ASICs) are used in mining rigs.
Untrue. People still buy graphics cards to mine Crypto because, even though they can't compete with dedicated mining rigs/cards, they are still leaps and bounds better than a CPU, and can be resold for nearly the price they were bought for.
Bitcoin vs Crypto.
It isn't economic (in most places, unless you have extremely cheap electricity and GPU cards) to mine bitcoin on GPUs.
It can be economic to mine other crypto currencies.
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#13Hedging bets against the rise of ARM processors?
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Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Graphics cards aren't used to mine bitcoin any more. Only chips that are made specifically for mining bitcoin (ASICs) are used in mining rigs.
When did that change? I still see it mentioned. https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/11/nvidia-ceo-cryptocurrency... https://www.techradar.com/news/best-mining-gpu
According to [1] if you have 15c/kWh electricity you can make about $1/day with a 1080ti on Bitcoin. This of course doesn't cover the cost of the card for over a year.
Other coins are slightly more profitable though.
[1] https://crypt0.zone/calculator/s/most-profitable-coin-to-min...
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#15I'm surprised they don't make lossy GPUs that have a few defects among the obscene amount of transistors. Consumer graphics you wouldn't know the difference.
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did that change? I still see it mentioned. https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/11/nvidia-ceo-cryptocurrency... https://www.techradar.com/news/best-mining-gpu
According to [1] if you have 15c/kWh electricity you can make about $1/day with a 1080ti on Bitcoin . This of course doesn't cover the cost of the card for over a year. Other coins are slightly more profitable though. [1] https://crypt0.zone/calculator/s/most-profitable-coin-to-min...
What these calculators never seem to account for is difficulty factor. That dollar-a-day today rapidly approaches zero as more and more people bring more equipment online. No way you're making a dollar a day 600 days from now.
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#17This was one of their previous attempts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
I hope these GPUs will be far better documented and have very good open-source drivers --- Intel has historically been much more open than ATI/AMD or nVidia at releasing public developer information.
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#18I remember the first time Intel tried this, in 1998, when they introduced the i740 AGP card. [1][2] The data sheet is still out there if you know where to look. [3] It made everyone in the industry from S3, Matrox, ATI, Nvidia and 3dfx all tremble. In the end, it flopped.
[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/202/3
[2] https://assets.hardwarezone.com/2009/reviews/video/v2740tv/v...
[3] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#19They must want some of the bitcoin market.
Very unlikely, I would guess. There's a reasonable chance Bitcoin won't even exist in 2020.
[Citation needed]
Whats your line of thinking here? Are you saying that all crypto currency wont exist by then or just BTC?
Why 2020 as the time frame? What is going to happen between now and then thats going to make it so that it wont exist?
Can you qualify what you mean by wont exist? All the code is open source so I've got copies saved locally, and I've also got enough hardware to run the the whole network myself. I could, if need be, single handedly restart/run BTC.
It's my opinion that the only people more ridiculous than those that insist Bitcoin will replace all other fiat currency in the future are those that continually insist on its constant demise and absolute lack of value.
Re: Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
#20They must want some of the bitcoin market.
Graphics cards aren't used to mine bitcoin any more. Only chips that are made specifically for mining bitcoin (ASICs) are used in mining rigs.
Correct, they are not used to mine Bitcoin.
However, they are used to mine other crypto-currencies, which use different algorithms for which there are no ASICs.