Hello everybody,
the current hype of mining Ethereum has left many cards to be sold out. In my country it seems that Radeon's RX 470/480/570/580 cards will be deliverable again in a few months.
However, I find that there is an alternative card : the RX 460.
Currently I am in an absolute test setup and wanted to share my findings with you guys. For that purpose I have set up a rig containing 2 RX460's and one R9 390.
Using Claymore's dual miner I get the following hashrates mining Ethereum and Pascalcoin.
GPU 0/1 : RX460
GPU2 : R9 390
Now lets get down to some numbers.
RX460 Power Usage is maximally 75W.
The Hashrate is ~11.5MH/s for Ethereum.
The Hashrate is ~102MH/s for Pascalcoin
Power in my country is roughly 0.2 $.
Using https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth we can calculate that this card yields 52€ per month worth of Ethereum.
Using https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/pasc we can calculate that this card yields 7,65€ per month worth of Pascalcoin.
With a basic price of 117€ we can have its price buying price back in ~59 days at the current Ethereum/Pascalcoin difficulty.
Conclusion
Due to the current impediment in delivering better cards like the RX470/480 series I believe the RX 460 to be a valid alternative. I am very aware of the risks connected to mining. Some of those are :
Rising difficulty : Everyday a little less Ethereum is created, for instance, I have purchased 30MH/s worth of cloud mining at Genesis. Last week I received ~0.018 Eth daily, today it already is at ~0.0017 Eth
Card failure : Due to the stress to the graphics cards one may stop to work at any time leaving you profitless.
Ethereums Proof of Stake (PoS) switch : Once Ethereum changes their Proof of Work System in which mining is possible to PoS you will not be able to mine Eth anymore.
Price fluctuation : If Ethereums price falls, or crashes permanently, you will lose money.
I hope I was able to offer you some nice information on the RX460. You can gladly ask me any questions regarding my setup, or whatever else you wish to know :)
Thanks for reading my first post on here!
All the best,
Thomas