Bitmain however isn’t the first to update their already outdated dedicated Ethash miner, especially the Bitmain Antminer E3 that has been around for ages. There are different competitors on the committed ETH miners marketplace, namely Innosilicon and Linzhi. Innosilicon’s new ETH miner — the Innosilicon A11 is supposedly going to deliver 2100 MH/s Ethash hashrate with only 2300W of electricity usage, while the novice Linzhi and their Linzhi Phoenix ETH miner is supposedly effective at 2600 MHS hashrate for Ethash using a power utilization of 3000-3500W.
So, Bitmain is going to be performing better in terms of functionality and with lower hashrate when the specs of their AntMiner E9 ETH miner end up to be right on the spot. It is very probable however that the cost will also be reflecting the better hashrate and lower power usage as well, so it could be more expensive than the slower choices. Bitmain is teasing with the seemingly soon to be established new Ethash miner named Antminer E9 that is supposed to be supplying 3 GH/s mining hashrate with 2556 Watts of power usage and 0.85 J/M power efficiency. This is what they claim to be the equivalent of 32 RTX 3080 graphics cards also it roughly is with regard to performance. So, the Antminer E9 is going to be offering similar performance to 32x Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU mining rig mining Ethereum with GPUs optimized for close to 100 MH/s hashrate, but with electricity use at just about 1/3 of exactly what the GPUs will desire. Hopefully with a cost that’s a lot less compared to just how much these video cards will probably cost you now, though there is still no exact launch date or pricing info released…
