Best Bitcoin Mining Hardware for 2017 – Bitcoin Miner Reviews
The following page reviews the best hardware available today in order to make some sort of a profit with Bitcoin mining.
If you’re completely new to Bitcoin mining please read our “Is Bitcoin mining still profitable?” post before moving on. It will give you a good idea about the profitability of mining and will make you think twice before entering this very competitive niche.
If however, you are aware of the competitive nature of Bitcoin mining and still want to get in the game, here you will be able to find the best Bitcoin mining hardware available. The good news is that there’s not many mining hardware companies left that make ASIC miners so choosing will probably be easy. That’s also the bad news. Even though many websites state long lists of Bitcoin mining hardware, only a handful of mining rigs can deal with the rising Bitcoin mining difficulty that’s out there these day.
Below is a side by side comparison of all relevant miners. Underneath the table you’ll be able to see a summarized review of each of the miners. Keep in mind that in order to see how profitable you can be with any Bitcoin miner you’ll need to make some calculations based on your electricity cost, the Bitcoin exchange rate and the increase in difficulty throughout time. Since not all of these variables are knows you will have to guess some as best as you can.
Select miner
Released
Power consumption
Power efficiency
Hash rate
Dimensions
Weight
Revenue in vacum*
Price
Overall rating
Antminer R4
Antminer R4
August 2016
845W±9%
0.1 J/GH +9%
8.6TH/s±5%
20 x 3.9 x 8.7 inches
unknown
0.29 BTC/month
Estiamted $1000
88%
AntMiner S9
antminer s9
June 2016
1375W ±7%
0.098 J/GH
12.93 TH/s
13.7 x 5.3 x 6.2 inches
10 lbs
0.5 BTC/month
~$2000
95%
Avalon 7
Avalon 7
November 2016
850W-1000W
0.29 J/GH
6 TH/s
13.4 x 5.3x 5.9
9.5 lbs
0.14 BTC/month
$880
81%