Cryptocurrency mining can be a profitable exercise, despite the volatile nature of the market.
To see which graphics cards can make you the most money in your mining rig, we used mining benchmarks from HotHardware to compare the hash rate of popular GPUs when used to mine Ethereum.
Using CryptoCompare’s profitability calculator, we then determined the estimated earnings per year for each card and calculated the payback period.
Card and cryptocurrency prices used in the calculations are from 8 December 2017.
The best graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining in 2017, ranked by payback period, are listed below.
AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
| RX 580 | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 25.623MH/s |
| Price | R5,399 |
| Daily Earnings | R21.78 |
| Payback Period | 248 days |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
| GTX 1070 | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 31.079MH/s |
| Price | R7,099 |
| Daily Earnings | R26.30 |
| Payback Period | 270 days |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
| GTX 1060 | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 19.04MH/s |
| Price | R4,599 |
| Daily Earnings | R16.30 |
| Payback Period | 282 days |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
| RX Vega 56 | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 36.48MH/s |
| Price | R10,057 |
| Daily Earnings | R31.09 |
| Payback Period | 324 days |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
| RX Vega 64 | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 35.22MH/s |
| Price | R11,299 |
| Daily Earnings | R30.00 |
| Payback Period | 377 days |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
| GTX 1080 Ti | |
|---|---|
| Hash Rate | 31.775MH/s |
| Price | R11,999 |
| Daily Earnings | R27.12 |
| Payback Period | 443 days |
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