The ratio of power consumption and hashrate per M is 5.31W/M. The nominal power consumption is 1200W and the actual tested value is 1222W, which is also a little higher than the nominal value. According to the actual 12-hour test, the hashrate is maintained at about 230M in stable operation, which is slightly higher than the nominal value. The nominal hashrate of Antminer G2 is 220M. Power Consumption of Antminer G2 in Stable Operation The measured noise about 10cm away from the miner is about 90dB while about one meter away the noise is still 80dB. The noise of Antminer G2 is relatively big. The installation and setting-up of Antminer G2 is complicated, please refer to Tutorial: Antminer G2 Ethereum Miner of AMD RX570 GPU Miner In addition, the power switch and reset switch are also there. On the rear side of Antminer G2, there are three fans and multiple interfaces, such as LAN, HDMI and two USB ports. In addition, power interface is also located on this side. Another small fan is used to dissipate heat for the motherboard. Three fans are installed for heat dissipation for the graphics cards. The air inlet is on the front side of Antminer G2 where the QC label is also attached.
The appearance of G2 is metallic silver and it looks very elegant. There’s a small carton inside containing the user’s manual, power cord and spare parts for miner delivery. Open the box we can find both ends of the miner are protected by EPE foams to prevent accidents during transportation. GPU miner, ETH, Zcash and XMR are supported.Īntminer G2 is packed in five-layer industrial carton with complete logistics warehousing label, product barcode and the logo of Antminer G2, its size is almost the same to the conventional computer mainframe. Now, let’s have a look at the performance of Antminer G2! The miner with 8 AMD graphics cards to be introduced today is Antminer G2 produced by BITMAIN, the well-known cryptocurrency ASIC miner manufacturer. Nowadays, AMD and Nvidia are the two types of graphics cards which are most commonly used for mining. However, due to different algorithm settings, some currencies such as Ethereum and ZEC need to be mined with GPU miners currently. The encrypted cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dash can be mined with ASIC miners.