MSI Nvidia P106-100 Mining Performance Review
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Some people are reluctant to buy AMD cards after it was announced that Polaris GPUs will experience ETH hashrate drop soon. Combine that with the fact that RX 4xx and 5xx are no longer available for sale and you’ll see why many people decide to go Nvidia.
That was indeed a great alternative some months ago, but after many miners bought Nvidia cards for their GPU mining rigs, Nvidia ran out of stock too. Nowadays, it is literally impossible to get your hands on decent GPUs fit for mining without having to pay twice the price.
Introducing the Nvidia P106-100
The P106-100 is based on the Nvidia GP106 GPU (GeForce GTX 1060). It is basically the same card with a couple of modifications:
– The Mining P106-100 features no display outputs whatsoever and it has no backplate.
Other than that, the specs are what you probably expected: the new GPU features GDDR5 6GB video memory with a core clock of 1506 MHz that can be boosted to up to 1708 MHz. The 6 PIN Power connector remains the same.
MSI P106-100 Miner Edition Hashrate
Cryptomined assembled a rig that consists of 6 MSI P106-100 Miner and then tested it with both Ethereum and ZCash. The power draw mentioned below includes the consumption of the motherboard.
Claymore:
20 MH/s, 750 W – Base Clock
24 MH/s, 830W – 800 MHz Memory and 100 MHz Core Overclock
EWBF ZCash Miner:
290 Sol/s – Base Clock, 830W
310 Sol/s, 830W – 220 MHz overclock
Takeaways
The P106-100 performs as a regular GTX 1060 6GB card, as we can observe.
The “miner” tag on the MSI P106-100 does not mean that it is better at mining than its gaming counterpart (the GTX 1060). Same goes about the power draw – while power draw depends on the configuration (amount of overclocking and undervolting), we can say for sure that the Nvidia P106-100 does not stands too far away from the GTX 1060 either.
What about the price?
It is hard to compare prices today, since the huge demand on mining GPUs made the GTX 1060 cost nearly twice as it used to cost before the boom. As for today, a GTX 1060 is priced $519. You can save about $100 or so if you manage to find a used one, of course. Now, the MSI P106 will cost $224 according to this site.
However, I am convinced that the huge difference in price is mostly the result of the hyper inflated demand on GPUs, rather than on the real price tag of the GTX 1060. Plus, we still got to see whether the $224 is a real number.
Pros
Okay, we all agree that the absence of display outputs is a huge downside. Once the GPU mining gold rush is over, no one will be able to re-sell their MSI P106-100s and get part of their money back. This fact negatively affects the ROI of the card. Besides that, this Miner edition of the GTX1060 is expected to have shorter warranty period, which is not a good thing either. It is almost certain that the warranty for the MSI P106-100 will be only 1 year instead of three.
However, there are pros too. First of all, the MSI P106-100 will probably be more accessible than the GTX 1060 because fewer people will want it. If you do your math right and choose the right coins to mine, you might still be able to profit with this new GPU. The MSI P106-100 is not an ASIC, which means that you will be able to use it with any upcoming GPU-friendly algorithm. There are new ICOs every day; no one said that we won’t have a new GPU mining rush anytime soon.
The second and most important pro is that the MSI P106-100 should be more durable than their gaming counterparts. Thanks to their enhanced dual-bearing fans and dust-resistant cooling system, the MSI P106-100 is designed to function 24/7 for months non-stop.
The Bottom Line
I hope you found the hashrate review useful. Thanks to Cryptomined we can now have numbers rather than mere speculations. It is really good that people get ways to get their hands on gear that is still got to be released, so we can have a better outlook on what is coming next.
MSI Nvidia -106-100 Review
If I calculated it right, about 55% less hashing power for about 44% less cost, but with no future resale value. If it had improved the hashing to power ratio, it might have been a contender.
right.. now include the DAG epoche . and currently you get only 17-22mh/s .. paying for nothing.. and also no resselling options.. seems like the wurst nividia sample aver..
I got 25 constant from zotac 106-100(with +90core,800mem OC), but here in my country people already aware of the mining and sell it on $360
Can anyone test it with new patched cuda ethminer (patch from David Li?)
Haha this is some joke? The industry really thinks we are a bunch of suckers?
With eth dropping and hard to mine.getting this will be most stupid people would do
No, the stupid people will sit back and think it is some sort of fad .. and wish they would have invested in either coins or mining themselves.
The internet is littered with posts from about 2 years ago where miners were bellyaching about ONLY getting 5-10 ethers per DAY… and that they were going to quit.
Hi, may i know how to install this Zotac 1060 P106-100 driver? now in Window – Device Manager still showing 3D video Controller.. Thanks for your kind help.
have you tried to install the latest version?
WTF are you talking about $519 for a GTX 1060? They are only $220… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KQUDE2Y?tag=ethrig08-21
wow… the one you mentioned is the 3gb one…
Still the 6GB is only $317, nowhere near $519 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IPVSGEC?tag=ethrig08-21
Are you serious? Please stop 🙂
That price was for “Used, Like New” since such cards are being dumped on the market now as the profitability has decreased 50% or so in the past month.
Brand new cards from reputable retailers are still $399+ — if you can find any.
Can I mix them with regular 1060s in the rig?
should work yeah..
And what about drivers? I’ve heard that p106 uses its own. Is there will be some issue?
i used latest drivers..
Hi what are the running mining temperatures for this? I’m concerned about heating issues as compared to a full sized gtx 1060.
I built a rig with 6 Zotac P106-100 (+650 men OC) I get 20-24 Mh/s for each card. Average temp is 65-70° and power consumption is 450-500watts (whole rig)… I got the cards for $270 each. So far so good.
Oh yeah. The Zotac versions have only one fan, so the cooling looks good too.
I dont know if I just got a batch of bad cards or not. But the MSI P106-100’s, all 4 so no clock speed, no memory in GPU-Z. Windows with latest 388 nvidia driver is detecting 12 nvidia GPUs on my Asus B250 Mining board – but they mine at zero or complain about no ram.
I have 6 MSI 1080ti 11G, 2 MSI 1070, plus the 4 P106-100’s i hooked up.
If i pull the 1070’s out and put 2 P106-100’s in thier place i get the same issue. If i pull all cards and just put in a single P106-100 i get the same issue.
Did you guys do something special to get these to work? MSI Advanced support sent me to NVidia and NVidia says it should work with that driver, to wait for an email. I just bought 12 of these @ $345 USD each.
Any ideas before i pack up and send back?
Umm.. not sure what could be.. have you tried with a fresh install using latest Nvidia drivers ? Never had such problem 🙁 virtual mem increased?
Drivers: NVDriver_382.53-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql
Hey, I’m currently have gtx 1070 & ryzen 1600 mining for me and could hash a total of 1khs on cryptonight.. i’m thinking of adding a 2nd card for mining.. still stuck with the decision rx 470 8gb (235$) and gtx 1060 aka p106-100 by zotac (268$).. i’m considering a better hashing rate with lower power consumption to run it 24/7.. as my rig running on asus b350 prime plus with 8 gb ram and 650w pure power psu by Bequiet.. any suggestion are welcome.. thanks!!!
I have 19 gpu mobo asus b250 mining expert, currently running with 8x p106, 2x 7990, 2x rx470 8gb, 2x rx580 8gb. total 16 gpu. make sure to under voltage to get the lowest power. I always love to buy used, used mean lower price, but same performance. lower price mean faster ROI. I bought most of my mining rig stuff from http://www.bitbitminer.com nice price from there.
Just wondering, could you use them for GPU rendering in photoshop and premier?
Hi – yes you could use them for this purpose. Are you interested in doing this?
ok, good article we use these type of cards for our rigs. http://www.collinsmining.com
830W???????
For 6 GPU’s
but hashrate per card… at least interesting point of view…
75w with 70% TDP