The Antminer E9 is a cryptocurrency mining rig created by Bitmain, a Chinese company that also produces the popular Antminer S9. The Antminer E9 is made specifically for mining Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
The rig includes three hashing boards containing a total of 144 AMD Radeon RX 470 GPUs. Like the Antminer S9, the E9 is air-cooled and includes a built-in power supply.
The AMD Radeon RX 470 GPUs used in the Antminer E9 are not particularly efficient at mining Ethereum, with a hashrate of just 24 MH/s per card. However, thanks to the large number of GPUs in the rig, the Antminer E9 has a total hashrate of 3.
456 TH/s, making it one of the most powerful Ethereum miners on the market.
The high hashrate of the Antminer E9 comes at a cost, however, with the rig consuming a whopping 2200 watts of power. That makes it one of the most power-hungry miners available, and significantly more expensive to operate than many other rigs.
So, can the Antminer E9 mine Ethereum? Yes, it can, and at a very high rate. However, due to its high power consumption, it is not particularly cost-effective, making it better suited for large-scale operations rather than individual miners.