Will 3GB Cards Still Mine Ether?

[mishmosh21]

I heard that video cards with 2 gb of vram no longer work with mining ether. I was wondering if the mining procedure will only work with 4gb cards, or if 3gb cards will still mine. I don't really care if mining is very profitable with a 3gb card or not. I have a 660ti lying around, and power is very cheap in my area, just wanted to know if it works.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Lurick]

If I remember right you'll need either 4GB, 6GB or 8GB cards. I don't think 3GB cards will cut it.

 

Since the 660Ti is Nvidia though, you're better off mining Zcash with the NiceHash miner program.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Nope. mining apps check vram and will only work on 4+ gig cards (4, 6, 8, 11, 12, etc.)

[mariushm]

Right now, about 2.3-2.5 GB of video card memory is used by the mining software ... soon due to the way the currency works and as mining difficulty increases there's going to be a point where the size of that file stored in video card's memory will go up and may get very close or over 3 GB.

 

But it doesn't have to be very close to 3 GB to make it basically impossible to use 3 GB cards... right now i think you can still use 3 gb cards with some hacks or tweaking of the mining software, but i'm not sure it's worth it.

 

 

[koji]

I'm mining with my R9 280x 3GB with Claymore just fine.

[2FA]

Within 3 months, nope. The DAG file will be over 3GB by that point.