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RE: Gridcoin [GRC] Mining Profitability in USD - NVIDIA GPU Mining (Up to USD$103/m per Card at ATH on Gamer Card!)

in #gridcoin7 years ago (edited)

Aren't there a bit more variables to it , thus these numbers are not a definitive factor? Such as the number of Gridcoin team members in a project and the number of hosts machines let alone cpu/gpu's? Thus " Max MAG " is just an " estimated value " along with " Max RAC ". Also different projects as mentioned about opencl vs cuda when you do the CPU chart , there are different extensions such as sse-sse4 & fgrpsse , fvp , avx , neon , pie and the list can go on so it also depends on the what the projects application is compiled to take advantage of in much the same as opencl/cuda etc. With that said , this is a great guide for beginners and a wonderful tool for them to assist in finding what is the best project for their machine when getting into earning Gridcoin. There are other factors that make it great that there is no way to make a " THIS IS THE ONLY WAY " and it would be nice if others could and would post their own experiences especially if you have access to a variety of hardware both GPU and CPU's. Possible additional information to log is the number of team Gridcoin members in the project at that time , how many computer systems team Gridcoin has crunching on that project at that time and Gridcoin's RAC/MAG percentage in that project at the time of logging. Unfortunately the factors are fluid and the output is always changing so its only a snapshot per MAX or MIN anything at that time. Boinc & Gridcoin together is like the New York stock exchange , what projects do you want to invest into?!

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I agree 100% - the aim with these tables was to give a very quick, rough answer to the age old profitability question. If I want to add all the extra complexities that you mentioned, as well as those I listed in the original post, it would have to be presented as a calculator. The tables would be far too complex, or multidimensional.

If I get a couple of days off, I would be open to writing a calculator in Python or similar.

Regarding more data, the difficulty is that I do not know the accuracy of data submitted by other users. It is, for example, impossible for me to verify if they have actually been running their hardware on the same project 24/7 for a full month.