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by latchkey 1580 days ago
ETH doesn't require a high end gpu. It is typically more ROI efficient with something like a RX470 8gb, which is a 5 year old piece of tech.

ethash, the algo ETH uses, is memory controller bound (aka: memory hardness), not compute bound.

https://www.vijaypradeep.com/blog/2017-04-28-ethereums-memor...