Mining machine

A mining machine is commonly referred to as a mining device. Mining machines mainly include ASIC miners and GPU miners. Some coins support FPGA miners, CPUs, or other equipment, but the proportions are relatively lower.

An ASIC miner is a highly customized professional mining machine that generally has a high hashrate but supports only a few coin types because of its fixed algorithm. For example, Ant S19 Pro can only mine SHA256d algorithm coins (such as BTC, BCH, DGB, etc.). GPU miners are more flexible and support mining for almost all coin types. However, the hashrate of GPU miners is relatively lower than that of ASICS.

ASIC miner

Current mainstream ASIC miner manufacturers:

Manufacturer	Miner types
Bitmain	BTC/  BCH: S19 Pro, S19, T19, S17+ LTC: L3+, L3++ ZEC: Z15, Z11 DASH: D5, D3 DCR: DR5, DR3
Innosilicon	BTC, BCH: T3+, T3, T2T+ LTC: A6+, A6 ZEC: A9++, A9+ DASH: A5, A5+
Whatsminer	BTC, BCH: M30S++, M30S+, M31S+
Canaan	BTC,  BCH: A1246, 1166 Pro, 1166
Ebang	BTC, BCH: E12+, E12

GPU miner

Relative to ASIC miners, GPU miners are more flexible. Coin types can be easily switched depending on market factors like prices. The residual values of GPU miners are also higher as second-hand graphic cards can still be used and sold on markets.

You can choose to buy graphics cards and assemble them individually or directly purchase custom-built GPU miners. Assembling GPU miners mainly includes GPUs, CPU, RAM, hard disk, motherboards, and power supply components.

• Motherboard

GPU miners are generally equipped with multiple graphics cards in one mining machine. Common motherboards currently on the market do not have enough graphics card slots so generally they are expanded through PCI-E expansion slots or extension cables.

• Graphics cards

AMD: 5700XT, 6700XT, 470/480 8G, 570/580 8G, Vega 56, Vega 64, etc.

NVIDIA: RTX2060, 3060, 3070, 3080, 3090, GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, etc..

• RAM

8G or above RAM is recommended.

• Hard disk

60G or above hard disk is recommended.

• Power supply

You can choose an appropriate power supply according to the number of graphics cards and predicted power consumption. The power supply should be higher than the total power of the graphics cards.

You can also choose to purchase GPU miners directly. GPU miners have built-in graphics cards assembled by mining machine manufacturers, eliminating the cumbersome steps of configuration.

Regardless of dependence on ASIC miners or GPU miners, the process of profit generation is done through fixed investments in equipment and electricity. Market fluctuations are also an important factor. You can use our advanced mining calculator to estimate the payback periods or refer to the daily output of popular mining machines for evaluation.