Five Current Best GPU's For Mining February 2018

This is going to be a difficult post as its almost going to go out fo date the minute I have posted this, but for February 2018 these are the graphics cards that we recommend for mining at the moment. Also For now trying to just include key points for the card

 

1. NVIDIA GTX 1070

• Core Clock: 1506Mhz
• Mem Clock: 8Gbps
• Memory: 8GB DDR5

Positives

• Good hashrate to power ratio
• High amount of memory

Negatives

• Expensive to buy, may cause long return on purchase
• Low stock pretty much everywhere

2. RX 580

• Core Clock: 1257Mhz
• Mem Clock: 8Gbps
• Memory: 8GB DDR

Positives

• Great price compared to Nvidia
• Stays relatively cool while mining with low power consumption

Negatives

• Pretty much impossible to buy do to popularity

3. RX 480

• Core Clock: 1120Mhz
• Mem Clock: 8Gbps
• Memory: 8GB DDR

Positives

• Cheap as its an older model
• Still performs very well compared to the RX580

Negatives

• Very hard to find as majority of miners still use them

4. AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

• Core Clock: 1156Mhz
• Mem Clock: 800Mhz
• Memory: 8GB HBM2

Positives

• Very good mining hashrate
• Can easily be tweaked to perform on par with a GTX1080

Negatives

• Runs Very hot
• Avalabilty

5.  Nvidia GTX 1080Ti

• Core Clock: 1480Mhz
• Mem Clock: 11Ghz
• Memory: 11GB GDDR5X

Positives

• Hugely powerful
• Very High hashrates

Negatives

• Extremely expensive to buy and to run