A Helpful Ethash DAG Size Calendar and Calculator

Mining

Now that Ethereum (ETH) is now not mineable crypto coin you don’t have to fret about its DAG dimension and the quantity of reminiscence you might have on any Ethash mining {hardware}, or possibly this isn’t completely true. Earlier than switching from PoW (mining) to PoS (staking) Ethereum’s DAG dimension has already handed the 5GB dimension making it not possible for miners utilizing video playing cards and ASIC miners with much less reminiscence to mine it. However since ETHW and ETHF are forks from Ethereum their DAG sizes are additionally over 5GB already, so mining these with older {hardware} is just not potential anymore and it might take a few 12 months and a half earlier than these attain the 6GB DAG dimension…

So, GPUs and ASIC miners with 6GB or much less reminiscence will cease being usable for mining these Ethereum forks, however there are a number of different “youthful” crypto cash which have a lot smaller DAG dimension which can be nonetheless mineable with older 4GB GPUs or ASIC miners and will probably be mineable for fairly a very long time sooner or later. EtherGem (EGEM) is a crypto coin that has not too long ago handed the 4GB DAG dimension, and QuarkChain (QKC) is anticipated to achieve it very quickly later this month. Then there are additionally the newest additions to the Ethash crypto cash corresponding to Proof of Memes (POM or ETH2.0) and PinkChain (PINK) that have been only in the near past launched and nonetheless have simply 1GB DAG dimension.

MinerStat has an fascinating and helpful Ethash DAG Dimension Calendar service obtainable that offers you an inventory of most cash, although not all, which can be Ethash and related algorithms which can be DAG-based and when they’ll attain sure sizes for his or her DAGs. There may be additionally a simple DAG dimension calculator that may permit you to do some math by yourself for the supported cash, corresponding to for instance to verify when Ravencoin (RVN) may have a 6G DAG dimension (March 2027). This device will be fairly helpful for anybody with older Ethash ASIC miners corresponding to first technology iPollos with 4GB reminiscence, Jasminer X4 with 5GB reminiscence and so on. in addition to for GPUs with 3GB, 4GB, 6GB video reminiscence and so on.