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Messy market, prices with wide variations and people wanting to make a mining in an efficient and profitable way, trying to keep their Hashrate within the constant increases of difficulty, and the market of GPUs super concurred, as much by miners as by gamers, since the resource it's common.
After Asus announced video cards for criptomoedas mining, Nvidia has come up with an alternative to satisfy both consumer GPU markets by leaving GTX boards for gamers and launching a unique line for mining.
Introducing the Nvidia P106-100
Nvidia introduces the P106-100 GPU which is based on the Nvidia GP106 GPU commonly known as (GeForce GTX 1060). It's basically the same card with some modifications and quirks.
The mining version (P106-100) does not have any display output and does not have a backplane.
In addition, the specs are what you probably expected where the new GPU has 6 GB GDDR5 video memory with a 1506 MHz clock rate that can overclock up to 1708 MHz. The 6 pin power connector remains the same.
What to expect from Hashrate
According to reported tests we should expect almost the same as the GTX 1060.
Claymore:
20 MH/s @ 750 W – Clock básico
24 MH/s @ 830W – Memória de 800 MHz e overclock de núcleo de 100 MHz
EWBF ZCash Miner:
290 Sol/s @ 830W – Clock básico
310 Sol/s @ 830W & #8211; Em Overclock de 200MHz
This P106-100 version works like a regular GTX 1060 6GB card, as we can see. The "Miner" Model does not mean it is better at mining than its gaming counterpart (the GTX 1060). The same goes for performance with regard to energy consumption.
It's the price?
It is hard to compare prices today, first by the huge demand for mining GPUs that made the GTX 1060 double the price, and second due to the recent but second release in the US are costing about 30-40% more in account than the GTX.
Conclusion
We all agree that the absence of display outputs is an advantageous disadvantage. For when the miner chooses to leave the mining this GPU will only serve to incoming miners in a certain way that fact negatively affects the ROI of the plate. In addition, these "miner" editions are expected to have a shorter warranty period, which is also definitely not good. It is almost certain that the warranty will be only 1 year instead of 3 years. But the "miner" version should be more durable than its gamer counterpart. Thanks to its dual-roller fans and dust-resistant cooling system, made to run 24/7 for non-stop months.