Updated Competitive Hardware List January 2020

With so many options available right now, I figured it was time to put together a solid list. Below, you'll find hardware organized by manufacturers. I’m sticking to the most competitive stuff, but if you think I've missed something important, feel free to chime in. This thread isn't for chatting; I'll include links to all the current discussions and reviews from the forum. I pulled pricing and specs from manufacturer websites. If a product isn’t sold directly by the maker, you’ll see a "Where to buy" link to their distributor instead. For real-world performance, check out the reviews and discussion threads. Just keep in mind that all miners can vary in power consumption and hashrate based on conditions, and those details are noted in the reviews or on the manufacturers' sites. Currently, the top pick for advertised efficiency is the Bitmain S17 Pro at .0395 J/GH. AB stands for Asic Boost. Here’s a list of the currently or recently available miners that are under .07 J/GH: 1. Bitmain S17 Pro 56 TH @ .0395 J/GH 2. Bitmain S17+ 67 TH @ .04 J/GH 3. Innosilicon T3 43 TH @ .048 J/GH 3. MicroBT M20S 68 TH @ .048 J/GH * M20 @48, M

Cool thread. How often you think you'll maintain? Also, T1's are still accessible.

Great article, but here are some comments: Whatsminer is wrong. Wrong company name. Wrong web address. The right information is: MicroBT http://www.microbt.com/ Whatsminer.net and Pangolinminer.com are distributors for the Whatsminer hardware.

I would love to see a price per TH metric added.

@ og more complex the price per th. you have price per th to usa due to 27.6% tax you have price per th to europe due to 18% tax  I know that varies you have price per th to rest of world maybe with 0% tax. you have  time to wait on gear you have coupons you have shipping cost you have btc conversion rates you have  watts per th.

In that case I demand he immediately put together an interface where I can put in my information and it will automatically tell me the best hardware for the buck.  Kidding.

On mobile. Thanks for the updated info. I'll update the whatsminer stuff this evening. I did have a tough time sorting through their chain. Missed something I guess. I'll add a price per TH that's  no issue. With this being a global market. My idea is just keeping it basic based on from manufacturer. People can figure out the extra based on their situation, based on the links they follow. I'll maintain the thread to within a few days, as best I can. Can you elaborate on the T1's I just went by their webpage.

Do you mean that Halong or MyRig is still selling T1 units? Could you elaborate?

I have updated the OP. @Thanks again Haggs, it wasn't until I re-read your review that I found where I missed the information for Whatsminer. @Og, I added in a quick cost/TH. I'll get right on that super smart system, give me a year longer than the new forum software. I completely forgot about Myrig. Updated, not sure how many they still have. I think going forward, once hardware is only available on the secondary market I will remove all pricing data. Not the situation here but may be shortly. Appreciate all the input. Honestly I had to do this because I found myself getting lost in what has or hasn't launched. Feel free to let me know anytime there is anything you feel is lacking or would make a good addition/update.

Yes MyRig, I would consider them worthy to list in referance to the T1. Also MicroBT website correct? No real links and a bunch of wechat qc's? Contact email comes back undeliverable.

Two lesser ones are GMO from Japan Triple-1 from Japan

Have either of them put miners in the hands of customers yet? I thought GMO was close as in this month, but that they were still preorder.  I am interested in triple-1 but same as above I didn't think they had delivered a miner yet. Maybe in an effort of fairness for current market sales I will add a general speculation section at the bottom for companies who have yet to deliver a miner but have announced competitive hardware.

How about Bitfury stuff? Bitfury Tardis miner, 6.3 KW. The Bitfury Tardis miner is offered with different configuration options: 5 hashboards, 66TH/s, 6,3KW – 95 mJ/GH, $55 per TH/s 6 hashboards, 71TH/s, 6,3KW -  88 mJ/GH, $58 per TH/s 7 hashboards, 75TH/s, 6,3KW -  84 mJ/GH, $61 per TH/s 8 hashboards, 78TH/s, 6,3KW -  80 mJ/GH, $65 per TH/s Each hashboard contains 128 Bitfury Clarke chips.

Yep, Bitfury is legit for sure. I think their most power efficient version of the new Tardis miner could make sense for big scale miners. https://bitfury.com/hardware/bitfury-tardis https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/bitfury-b9-tardis-datasheet.pdf

Yeah I was doing some research on Bitfury last night, but need to do more.  I have a post somewhere a fee months back about someone looking into the snow leopard, and I did read up on the tardis. Last I checked though they had a MOQ of 100 units. Here's where it becomes opinion and I'll defer to the community. Is a company that has a MOQ of 100 really competitive? I'm going to keep digging tonight, but if anyone can point me to a distributor or something where anyone can pick them up thag would be great If not I will add them at the bottom, under a industrial title or something of the sorts. Still looking into GMO and triple 1 waiting for a product to materialize. Keep the info coming people I appreciate the assistance in keeping this list up to date. Edit: MOQ may have changed, if I can find some hard facts that the panther had been delivered out to customers I'll add them with the tardis being speculation. They are tough, as I recall they didn't sell to the global public for many years and have only recently started doing this again.

I thought that by 'competitive' you mean the current gen. / top efficiency hardware?

You're right Hagss. Sorry for the confusion, I may just have to stop replying from mobile for some threads. So in keeping with the theme of having hardware currently out or having been delivered  that is recently competitive, I need to research their panther or B3 snowleopard or b8 I think it was called. If I can't find some hard facts on that miner having been sold, then they only have a spec sheet for unreleased hardware the "tardis". When I was starting to think about this thread I believe they only had the shipping container build up on their website so they were passed over. That being said.  I am looking into the tardis for details and if anyone can send something regarding their last miner that was sold, I will update OP accordingly. I will probably also ad in a metric for units that have a MOQ. As always I am open to suggestions and input. If someone feels I am leaving out a key piece if information we can discuss adding it.

Their previous gen. miner is called Bitfury B8. There is an old product page here: https://bitfury.com/hardware/server Specs https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/bitfury/b8 It uses this 16nm chip https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/16-nm-asic-datasheet-2018-04-002.pdf The BlockBox AC actually consists of 176 pieces of these Bitfury B8 miners. https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/blockboxac-brochure-2018-04-002-layouts.compressed.pdf

As per GMO website, i.e. https://gmominer.z.com/en/ GMO miner B3 is sold out temporarily due to the very high demand. Please kindly wait until we restart selling. For those who wish to order, please contact us via the Inquiry Form below the FAQ page. We will be in touch with you once we restart selling. So, I guess, GMO product has already been materialized. I could not understand anything from http://triple-1.com/ though.

Bitfury has been added. It's tough to find anything on their gear out in the wild but there are some videos out there. A lot of the info available does seem to be in russian, but I have sent a request for information from them regarding the Tardis. Mostly with expected shipdates and what not, this way once it's proven real somewhere it can take the current hardware slot. I read the same and going back through the discussion threads on the forum, it had an expected shipdate in October. So with them still being a new company having never produced hadware to consumers I'm holding off. If they keep to their commitments and ship something out at any point they will be placed on the list for sure. Again they have been sent a request for information, we'll see if they get back to me.