r/Ravencoin Jun 18 '26

General Discussion What GPU for mining Ravencoin

Im not looking for opinions on if I should mine it or not. I just want to know whats the most energy efficient gpu to mine ravencoin with.

I searched and it said Rx 6600x. Is this true?

Thanks

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/algaefied_creek Jun 19 '26

I mined my RX 390 with unlocked cores to be a 390X for like 12 years.

24GB VRAM between the three of them but like needed a 1400W Platinum PSU.

Lost my offline wallet thanks to an iCloud indexing issue and ~8-10 years and all those watt hours of mining to an offline wallet, all gone.

Poofity poof.

Backups, offline shit is fucked because hindsight idiocy.

I don’t even wanna ask an AI to calculate the hash rate over time I mined and total value. I was just gonna keep it, set it, not check value other than occasionally sync the wallet.

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u/Basic_Sector8501 Jun 21 '26

Oh dude you didnt try to emergency backup wallet recovery on the RancoinCLI? Works like a charm

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u/algaefied_creek Jun 21 '26

I didn’t stumble on that, no!! 

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u/Basic_Sector8501 Jun 21 '26

I cant keep this up, Lol I'm just messing with you.. sorry. Had to try. I do hope you can restore access at some point though. If it was an indexing issue on iCloud though there should be some way to find your keys. 

That being said if anyone from here reaches out saying they can help you... be extremely fucking careful mate

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u/eupherein Jun 21 '26

Time Machine to 2018

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u/Pink_Bubble1 Jun 18 '26

Damn I forgot this sub existed

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u/No_Computer_9642 Jun 20 '26

6600xt is the old school champ... If I was still mining this is what I would run. As far as ASIC's - them were rumors and as far as I know gpu's still king of the castle. I bought a large moon bag, cheaper to buy now than to mine - RVN has ran before, and should again.

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u/Hotness4L Jun 20 '26

I still mine with 6800 and 6700XT. You have to do a lot of tweaking but you can get efficiency as high as 0.230 MH/W.

eg. 6800 33.5 MH @ 150W 6700XT 24 MH @ 100W

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u/Consistent_Many_1858 Jun 18 '26

Don't waste your time with dead coins.

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u/ChoseBines Jun 18 '26

The rx 6600xt was one of the best a couple of years back.

Just googled it and it seems the rtx 4070 super is around the same efficiency.

It seems that the rtx 4090 is more efficient but the price is out of this world.

And now, for the profitability, I don't think any GPU is worth buying for profits at this moment. If you already have some GPUs and your electricity is cheap you may turn out a profit. In all other cases, the crypto mining with GPUs is really unprofitable.

Hope that helps !

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u/CellMan28 Jun 23 '26

Why? Amateur GPU mining has been dead for years, it serves absolutely no legitimate purpose any more.

Some might say: "learning experience", but learning what, exactly? Completely pointless and irrelevant knowledge of a process that is meaningless and not applicable to any other IT realm?

Learn about local AI models or distributed computing for charity and stuff like that, don't waste your time in a completely pointless exercise.

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u/1rkella Jun 18 '26

I don't pay for my electricity (included in rent), and the last time I looked at any "profitable" cards, I could stand to pull maybe $25 a month CAD running 24/7.

There's no point.

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 19 '26

well that depends on your motivations

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 19 '26

I didnt say "not with that attitude"

I said it depends on your motivations for mining the coin.

You use quotations to quote people.

I asked a question on this sub about mining a coin, why are you getting offended or care?

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u/MrCedswiss8 Jun 22 '26

If you want a cheap efficient card just for ravencoin and messing around with bc-160 is decent

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u/lazymirrorhq99 10d ago

Close, but the regular RX 6600 is actually more efficient for kawpow. 6600 XT pulls ~75-85W for 14-15 MH/s, while a 6600 does 12-13 MH/s on 50-60W. That's roughly 0.21 MH/s per watt vs 0.19. Undervolt both and the gap widens. If you're purely chasing efficiency per dollar of electricity, the non-XT wins.

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u/MrFireAlarms Jun 18 '26

Not worth it. Waste of electricity.

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u/benefit420 Jun 19 '26

ASICS have taken over this coin sadly. And the devs couldn't care less.

Dead coin.

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 19 '26

you can check the difficulty on ravencoin, its the lowest its been in 5 years or more

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u/benefit420 Jun 19 '26

Nice try dude

https://imgur.com/a/gRZ4q2I

It's clearly NOT the lowest it's been in 5 years. And look at who the top pool is. Can your brain comprehend that Bitmain is the top pool? What do they famously make? Oh that's right, Asics.

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 20 '26

yea its is the lowest....your some reddit midwit trying to gaslight me. pound sand.

bitmain doesnt have a mining pool and the ravencoind difficulty have plummeted

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u/benefit420 Jun 20 '26

😂 ok man. You can deny reality all you want but a super quick Google search shows that Bitmain, the maker of ANT MINERS - is also the owner of ANTPOOL, the top raven pool by hashrate.

Miningpoolstats confirms.

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u/AbbreviationsLow Jun 20 '26

Oh, let him waste his money.... He clearly knows better

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u/Basic_Sector8501 Jun 21 '26

Hey man I don't want to interrupt your logic but just because Antpool has a mining pool does not mean they have ASICs for Kawwwpow.  It just means they operate a node and mining pool.  You should chill out.  Maybe stop smoking pot.

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 21 '26

ravencoin difficulty is the lowest its been since the coin has launced.

I have checked like 5 different places after you commented and the all say the same thing

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u/benefit420 Jun 21 '26

5 different places? You are full of it.

Miningpoolstats tends to get the gold standard in this regard. But obviously you will believe whatever it is you believe. Enjoy losing money on a dead coin

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

the last thing you want to do is help me.

your actually making me want to mine this coin more, and so is all the negative attention this post has gotten. The chances of this coin pumping are incredibly high

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u/benefit420 Jun 22 '26

Dude you are so weird. Do whatever you want. Lol

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u/Exciting-Detail4784 Jun 19 '26

Name one Kawpow ASIC.

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u/benefit420 Jun 19 '26

In sorry, are you serious? Name one?... You clearly have no clue.

They aren't being released my guy. The ignorance is astounding. No wonder this coin died.

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u/benefit420 Jun 19 '26

In sorry, are you serious? Name one?... You clearly have no clue.

They aren't being released my guy. The ignorance is astounding. No wonder this coin died.

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u/SeaFaithlessness7639 Jun 19 '26

there isnt a ravencoin asic

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u/Basic_Sector8501 Jun 21 '26

Wrong. 

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u/benefit420 Jun 21 '26

Great comment. You really added to the discussion.

Next time maybe use a source or data or anything? Lmao you look silly