Oct 24, 2017 · Why does mining bitcoin with an ASIC antminer S9 appear much more profitable than mining Ethereum with 3 AMD GPU cards? This is per whattomine.com. I see antminer S9 going for $2,100 to mine bitcoin versus let's say about $1,500 to set up a 3 GPU rig for ethereum including cost of motherboard, monitor, etc. Ethereum Mining Calculator - Calculate ETH Profitability ... Based the mining hardware inputs provided, 0.03859774 Ethereum can be mined per day with a Ethereum mining hashrate of 500.00 MH/s, a block reward of 2 ETH, and a Ethereum difficulty of 2,238,473,254,506,623.00. After deducting mining power costs and mining fees, the final daily Ethereum mining profit is $3.81 Ethereum to USD.