

However, you'll want to tune your graphics card with the optimal settings, and the brand and card model can have a big impact on overall performance and efficiency.įirst, let's note that we're not trying to actively encourage anyone to start a mining farm with GPUs. Most of the graphics cards in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy can earn money right now by mining, depending on how much you pay for power. But there's more to it than just firing up the software and letting it run in the background, especially if you've managed to procure one of the best graphics cards or best mining GPUs. An hour of tuning, potentially $100s of dollars saved on cooling and power over the course of card ownership.Ethereum GPU mining remains profitable, at least until it shifts to proof of stake some time this year (we hope). I consider that an absolute win, and it's totally worth the ~1 hour of tuning it took to get it perfectly stable. Not to mention 45W less power usage and noticeably less heat and noise being kicked out into my room.

I managed to drop 15C on junction temperature and nearly 25% off on fan speeds, while maintaining the same edge temp. Peak temperatures: 61C edge, 90C junction Peak temperatures: 61C edge, 105C Junction 125mV DNF, repeatable hard crash to desktop 100mV 116.29, crashed once but not repeatable All settings Ultra, with the following exceptions: Texture Streaming (High), Shadows (High), Material Quality (High), Foliage (Medium), Volumetric Fog (Medium), and AO (Medium.) I used the Borderlands 3 built-in benchmark as my testing game. I was playing around in Afterburner today and decided to see how far I could push the undervolt on my card, for science and a quieter/cooler office.
