GPUs, Bandwidth, and Mining

FruitBasketSilex · April 23, 2015

So, we all know that GPUs like to have 2.0 x8 or more. Right? And its always a plus to have higher bandwidth.

We also know that people that mine will run a bunch of graphics cards at x1 (dunno which x1)

What if I had a magical chip set and cpu that natively supported 16x16=256 3.0 lanes. Let's also imagine I have 16 titanXs that I want to mine with. Let's also imagine I have a monstrous PSU and a mobo supporting 16 cards and a magical case, you get the idea.

Is there a benefit to having more bandwidth available to the cards when mining? Would 16 titanXs perform better at x16 than they would at x1? Would they perform the same? Is x1 enough for the work units from mining?

Not planning to mine at all, this thought just came to me is all.

Kyuubixchidori · April 23, 2015

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it wouldnt benfit, if you run a mining card at 3.0 16x, and at 1x, it doesnt make a diffrence. If it did, people would just use less cards per computer.

gaming sends a lot more data over the pci slot then mining

FruitBasketSilex · April 23, 2015

it wouldnt benfit, if you run a mining card at 3.0 16x, and at 1x, it doesnt make a diffrence. If it did, people would just use less cards per computer.

gaming sends a lot more data over the pci slot then mining

OK. Pretty much what I thought.

Thank you.