Can Threadripper CPU dig up 'peer' pre-coding with VGA GTX 1080?

The algorithms used to dig up pre-coding are thought to be more optimal for GPUs, so the CPU has never been the choice of miners digging for pre-coding. This makes the miners actively buy VGA in large quantities leading to VGA market all over the world falling into "price storm".

But recently, AMD has stated that its Threadripper CPU is also capable of earning money from coding crypto as much as high-end VGA. Even compared to the "plow buffalo" series of VGA plugs that can only be used to dig money, CPU Threadripper has an advantage because while digging coding money you can still do other things or play games.

AMD's CPU Threadripper is designed for heavy multi-tasking operations. Whether you have just encode, played 4K games, and made a video clip render and streamed it at 1080p, the CPU has not used up to 100% of its power.

In addition, one of the main factors that gives the ability to "dig" very well for this chip is that it owns 32MB of L3 cache.

To test out what AMD has declared, a man from Jason Evangelho from Forbes, conducted an experiment to compare Threadripper's profitability compared to the 1080 GTX VGA.

Nicehash has used the CPU to dig coins with this NiceHash software that will use the Cryptonight algorithm (the algorithm used to exploit the Monero copper), designed to fully exploit the power of the CPU. The results show that the minimum hash rate when using Threadripper is 1300H / s. And if at the present time under the conditions in the US, the Threadripper will bring in a profit of $ 99.79 per month.

Estimate the profits earned when using Threadripper to dig coins through Nicehash.

Meanwhile, with a 1080 GTX VGA in the same condition, the monthly profit is about 94.56 USD.

Estimate the profit earned when using 1080 GTX VGA to dig coins through Nicehash.

The above figure is just an estimate and the results depend on many other factors such as the optimal capabilities of the system, the number of cores and CPU flow that you set aside for digging coins, as well as the volatility prices between different crypto currencies.

But this has shown that using Threadripper to dig up crypto has a significant advantage over GPU. With the GPU, when digging money to encode the VGA, it must work in a 100% running state and then they can't do any work. But with Threadripper, AMD said, you only need to use about 50 ~ 70% of the CPU to dig up encryption and do other things with your computer. This means Intel's Core-i9 7900x 10-core CPU only delivers about 40% more crypto-digging performance than Threadripper.

In terms of price, both have similar prices, the Threadripper costs $ 899, while the current GTX 1080 ranges from 849 to 999 USD.

We will have to wait for other practical tests to confirm whether AMD's claim is true or not.

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