GPU Mining
Mining● Common
Using graphics processing units to mine Bitcoin, prevalent from 2010-2013 before ASIC dominance. GPUs offered significant speedup over CPUs due to parallel processing. Now obsolete for Bitcoin as ASICs are millions of times more efficient.
Technical Notes
Era: late 2010 - early 2013. GPUs: 10-100 MH/s. Replaced by FPGAs briefly, then ASICs (2013). Modern ASICs: 100+ TH/s (million× faster). Some altcoins use 'ASIC-resistant' algorithms favoring GPUs. Bitcoin's SHA256 heavily optimized for ASICs.
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Created:1/3/2026by System