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by warrenmiller 4604 days ago
An ideas whether this would make a decent bitcoin miner?
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The bitcoin network difficulty is rising so fast that even the first-gen ASICs are becoming obsolete.

For example if you have a good Radeon HD7970, you can get about .8 GH/s. Based on the rate of difficulty increase the 7970 would mine about 0.02 BTC in all of November 2013 and 0.01 BTC in December 2013 and < 0.01/month after that.

For various reasons Nvidia cards are slower at BTC mining than AMD. The fastest Nvidia card, the Tesla S2070, can only hash about 0.750 GH/s.

Even 60GH/s ASIC miners will be earning < 0.10 BTC per month by March 2014. In August 2013 a 60GH/s miner would make ~0.8 BTC PER DAY. That's how quickly the difficulty is increasing.

At this point no GPU would make a decent bitcoin miner, except as a hobby.

I'd guess it'd hit about ~75% of a GTX 680 at this task.
What makes you think that? Specs look pretty similar to a 680.
800 MHz core clock of each K520 GPU versus 1058 MHz boost clock of GTX 680...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-gpu-boards.html

Fantastic - that's exactly the info I've been looking for. Thanks.