Measured comparison
Pearl vs Ravencoin vs Ergo on the same graphics card
Updated 13 September 2026 · measured on our own rigs · gross figures
Almost every mining comparison you will find multiplies a published hashrate by today's coin price. We run all three of these coins on the same hardware, so this page is the other thing: what one RTX 4060 actually produced on each, read off the rig.
The same RTX 4060, three coins
| Coin | Algorithm | Measured hashrate | ≈ gross / day | ≈ gross / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pearl (PRL) | pearlhash | ~57 TH/s | ~$1.00 | ~$30 |
| Ravencoin (RVN) | KawPow | ~15.8 MH/s | ~$0.09 | ~$2.80 |
| Ergo (ERG) | Autolykos2 | ~70 MH/s | ~$0.07 | ~$2.20 |
Hashrates measured on a 3× RTX 4060 rig mining continuously, re-verified 13 September 2026 against the pool’s own 24-hour average; dollar figures recomputed the same day. Hashrate units are each algorithm's own and are not comparable across rows — only the dollar columns are. Figures are gross, before your own costs.
Why the spread is this wide
A thirteenfold gap on identical silicon looks wrong until you remember what the dollar figure is actually made of: price, block reward, and how much total hashrate is competing for it. Ravencoin and Ergo are long-established chains with large, mature networks, so one card is a smaller slice of a bigger pie. Pearl's network is younger and smaller, so the same card represents a much larger share of it.
That cuts both ways, and it would be dishonest to present it as free money. A younger chain carries more price and liquidity risk than an established one. The high figure exists partly because fewer people are there, and that can change quickly in either direction. Ravencoin will very likely still be trading in three years; nobody can promise that of any young chain, this one included.
The card matters less than you would think
Compare the spread above against the spread between cards on the same coin:
| Card | Coin | Measured hashrate | ≈ gross / day | ≈ gross / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4070 SUPER | Pearl | ~135 TH/s | ~$2.37 | ~$72 |
| RTX 4060 | Pearl | ~57 TH/s | ~$1.00 | ~$30 |
Roughly two and a half times, between two cards a generation and a price tier apart. Against thirteen times between coins on one card. If you are choosing what to mine, the coin is the decision; the card is what you already own. Full per-card figures are on the measured profitability page.
Which should you actually pick?
Pearl, on the evidence above, if you want the highest measured figure and accept the risk of a younger chain. It also has the lowest hardware bar of the three: pearlhash runs on cards with 3 GB of memory, against 6 GB for the other two, so older and smaller cards that Ravencoin and Ergo refuse will often mine it. How to mine Pearl →
Ravencoin or Ergo if you specifically want one of those coins, or would rather hold a more established asset and treat the much lower figure as the price of that. On the September re-measure the two are close enough to be a coin-flip — about $2.80 against $2.20 a month on the same card — and both are an order of magnitude behind Pearl. Their order has already flipped once: on 31 August Ergo led Ravencoin, and by 13 September that had reversed, which is itself the point — the gap between them is noise next to the gap to Pearl. How to mine Ergo →
Frequently asked questions
Can Auto mode pick the best GPU coin for me?
No, and not for want of trying. Auto ranks the CPU's RandomX coins, where profitability is directly comparable per unit of hashrate because they share an algorithm. Pearlhash, KawPow and Autolykos2 produce numbers in different units on different networks, so ranking them on price alone would be arithmetic dressed up as advice. GPU coins are a deliberate manual pick, and Pasiv shows each one's live estimate for your card so the comparison above is one you can re-run yourself.
Can I mine these on a Mac?
No. All three need the SRBMiner engine, which has no macOS build and targets NVIDIA hardware, so GPU mining in Pasiv is Windows and Linux only. On Apple Silicon, Pasiv mines CPU coins instead — Monero, Zephyr, Salvium and Verus. See what M-series Macs earn.
Do these figures include electricity?
No. Every number here is gross, before your own costs. We publish gross only and on purpose: a net figure that is true at 8 c/kWh is misleading at 45 c/kWh, and your tariff is the one number we cannot know. Take the gross figure and do that subtraction against your own bill.
Will these numbers still be right when I read this?
The hashrates will be; they are a property of the hardware and the algorithm. The dollar figures move with price and difficulty and were last recomputed on 13 September 2026, so treat them as a snapshot of the shape rather than today’s exact number — between 31 August and 13 September, Pearl on a 4060 went from about $20 a month to about $30. Pearl’s lead is a structural fact about network sizes and moves slowly; the gap between Ravencoin and Ergo does not, and has already flipped once. Pasiv shows a live estimate for your own card before you start.
Does Pasiv take a cut of any of these?
No. Pasiv's 4% fee is Monero-only and compile-time constant — you can read it in the open core. Pearl, Ravencoin and Ergo are all fee-free to Pasiv. The deductions that do exist are the mining engine's own 2% developer fee and your pool's fee, both third-party, neither reaching us.
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