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by DaiPlusPlus 2212 days ago
At this scale - I’m not convinced that $5,000 worth of ASICs would have the same performance as $5,000 worth of GeForce cards - especially after factoring in lead-time to design the ASIC.

As for FPGAs - forgive my ignorance - but can they even handle that kind of load? In my head I just see them breaking-down under the sheer thermal load.

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> As for FPGAs - forgive my ignorance - but can they even handle that kind of load? In my head I just see them breaking-down under the sheer thermal load.

They worked for Bitcoin before miners switched to ASICS; I imagine they'd be fine in this application as well.