ever been curious how well an old gpu can hold up in mining at this day of age
well today we are going to be testing the one and only geforce titan x
pascal we will run it up on three different algorithms and talk about the profitability
so without spoiling anything all i can say is you're in for a little surprise
hey guys and welcome back to another mining chamber video yes this is the second video
in the same week very impressive i know all jokes aside hopefully the momentum will keep going from
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any further ado let's go ahead and get into today's video the gtx titan x this video would
definitely not have been possible without the help of my good friend bran coyne he sent me his
titan x so i can make the video on it so please show him some love and subscribe to his channel
it will be in the descriptions below thank you so much brandcoin for sending me your card although
i can't give you any promises that you'll be getting it back after i've seen its performance
so the titan x pascal is basically an ancient card that was produced back in 2016.
it is a workstation card with pretty good core so it should hold up a bit in mining comparing to the
newer gen cards although don't confuse it with the titan x maxwell so these are two different
architectures and the maxwell one was produced back in 2015. the titan x pascal is a newer one
with better specs but they do look very similar the pascal also stands out due to its backplate
whilst the maxwell only has the pcb board as for where to buy this gpu surprisingly enough there
are a couple of places that sell it including newegg and amazon so by the end of the video
if you think it's a good choice for you then you might want to grab one no financial advice given
common prices i find this gpu for is at around 850 dollars to a thousand one hundred dollars usd
but i'm sure secondhand will be a lot cheaper if you are lucky to find some around you
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sponsoring this video so now to the fun part the mining performance of the titan x pascal
first we will test it in ethereum then ravencoin and then flux i am sure that one of the results
will surprise you because it definitely surprised me for ethereum i'm going to be using equilix
miner for the testing a miner that was made for the mining chamber community with really low debt
fees you guys can find more information about it on the website which i will leave the link for
in the descriptions below now using other mining software such as phoenix miner or trx miner was
able to get me one or two more mega hash but with the fees being calculated in it won't come to that
much difference so in stock settings i was able to get about 31 to 32 mega hash at 205 watts and then
after i attempted to tune up the gpu a little bit it was a bit on and off because whenever
you change the power your hash rate will drop with it pretty drastically so the most that i was able
to get it up to was 35 mega at 200 watts so we shaved off 5 watts and we added about 3 mega hash
so it's not so bad but if you want to buy these cards for ethereum mining then it's definitely
a no go next up we have ravencoin using the kapow algorithm and then we use trx miner to test this
one out and we were able to get 22 mega hash at 282 watts on stock settings so that's definitely
a lot of power and then after i tuned it up for a little bit i was able to get it at 24.5 mega hash
for 212 watts so that is pretty close to a 360 ti which is about 27 mega hash at 190 watts
so the numbers are definitely getting close and then lastly we have flux
so flux is the game changer here now mining flux using the zellhash algorithm with g minor i was
able to tune up this car to get about 54 souls at 210 watts which is not so bad at all for this gpu
especially that it's a very old card and if you compare this to the new cards this is basically
like a 360 ti a 360 ti can get you about 54 solds at 190 watts but i'm sure if you overclock the
3060 ti you'll be able to get a lot better results but it's still very awesome that this card is
actually catching up now just one thing i need to remind you guys is that these watts are being
calculated off the wall i'm subtracting 30 watts for the system which is usually about 30 watts
and then the rest of it will be for the gpu and one more thing is if you need any of the overclock
settings that i'm going through you will be able to find them on the website miningchamber.com
just go to the titan x pascal article and then you'll find all the settings there
and then one final thing to note before jumping to the profitability is that if you are trying to run
it on a hive os or just any linux based mining operating system just make sure that you use
the second value of the settings so for example for memory clock instead of doing a plus 750 as
an offset and hypo s you do a thousand and five hundred so just keep that in mind and make sure
you're putting the right values in and then you should be good to go so now how much money does
this card make with the results that we currently have so for calculating the profits we are here on
whattomine.com and then i have my results placed into the algorithms so we have etch cell hash as
well as kapow results now there's also a lot of other algorithms but we didn't test them for all
of them and generally these three that we tested are the most profitable ones you won't really have
an option for the titan cards if you try to select them from up here so you'll have to definitely be
doing this manually and just one thing as always for mining profits they always change so these
current mining profits are based on the day that this video is being published which is november
22nd 2021 and if you ever want to get the updated version of the profits just go to the article for
the titan x on miningchamber.com and then you can just click on this link which will take you
to the same page but updated numbers so anytime you ever want to check it out just make sure you
visit this link and then you'll be up to date with what's going on so now back to the hash rates and
the results we can see down here that we are able to get about three dollars a day mining flux and
then two dollars and 54 cents mining raven coin and then two dollars and 49 cents mining ethereum
and all that without electricity and then if you calculate in the electricity based on 10 cents per
kilowatt hour then you'll be making about two dollars and 40 cents a day maximum using plugs
so mining flux with this coin is the most profitable and then there's also other cool
things about flux which is parallel assets where you get paid multiple different variations of the
coin on different chains and if you guys want any more information on that seb as well as the
hobbyist miner made some great videos on this topic which i will leave in the descriptions
below so back to the profits if we go ahead in mind with this card for about 30 days then
you guys can see that you'll be making about 72 dollars a month which is great for this card and
then you'll be spending about 800 to a thousand dollars to get it so it's almost very similar
to the other cards that you're getting the break even will be in about 8 to 10 months and then if
the market rises to the place it was then your profits will be keep going higher and higher
so it's honestly very surprising that this gpu is able to keep up with the current generation
now like i mentioned with flux you might be making a lot more than just two dollars and forty cents
you might be making up to three dollars even five dollars a day with this parallel asset option so
definitely check out the videos that will be linked below and then other than that i can go
ahead and give you guys my conclusion about this gpu and what's my plan of action so no financial
advice to be taken this gpu i honestly think it's such a fun choice to use it's not really efficient
and it doesn't have a good resale value for sure but is just a fun gpu to play around with and
just do a whole rig based on this gpu now to be honest i was very close to buy six of these gpus
but they were not available in canada for the good price that i found on newegg.com and on newegg.ca
it was a lot more expensive so too bad that ended up making me not be able to buy these cards
so now before i wrap up the video i'm curious if you guys have these cards let me know what
your results are below and if you do have one of these cards and you've been debating mining
then i'd honestly recommend you to start mining flux or whatever coin that you want just on the
side whenever you're not using your computer and then you'll just make some extra money on the side
now this titan x pascal will find its way back to its owner which is brand coin and that being said
let's go ahead and wrap up the video thank you guys so much for watching and if you enjoyed it
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