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Guru3D.com » News » Hold your breath: GeForce RTX 3080 Might Become Hard to get - Cryptocurrency Miners Again

Hold your breath: GeForce RTX 3080 Might Become Hard to get - Cryptocurrency Miners Again

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/09/2020 03:07 PM | source: Hardware Info (via Golem.de) | 48 comment(s)
Hold your breath: GeForce RTX 3080 Might Become Hard to get - Cryptocurrency Miners Again

The first in the row of to be released RTX series 30 graphics card is, of course, the GeForce RTX 3080, and something very ominous is happing in Asia; miners already have obtained many cards, and they want them badly s the mining compute capacity of 115 MH/s is triple that of the RTX 2080. 

In the photos below originating from the Chinese forum Baidu, there are users actually who managed to get hold of several cards (before launch). It's staggering to see as photos are showing RTX 3080 cards in piled up in stacks. The fact that the cards already have been sold is weird, but more worrying is that a new mining craze might ignite shortages, and this will drive availability for consumers down and prices up.

 

 

Miners that mine Ethereum, as you can see in the screenshot for the RTX 3080 achieves a computing power of 115 MH/s, nearly three times faster than an RTX 2080 that is capable of 35 to 40 megahashes per second. No values for energy consumption are given, the 3080 seems theoretically more efficient if one contrasts the tdp of both cards with the hash rate. Mining cryptocurrency in Asia is quite profitable, given the relatively low energy costs.

A few years ago, the cryptocurrency boom ensured that AMD's Radeon RX 480/470 and Radeon RX 580/570 had increased in price for months because they were used for mining systems. Nvidia also increased its sales so significantly due to demand. Operators of colossal mining farms do not buy their cards from the shop around the corner but purchase them directly from distributors or even the manufacturers themselves. For smaller shops and especially for end customers, this can result in more insufficient availability or increased prices. 



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Loobyluggs
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#5827671 Posted on: 09/09/2020 03:14 PM
crypto still a thing? Jeebies

rl66
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#5827675 Posted on: 09/09/2020 03:19 PM
Crypto are more and more used... it's a plague and an obligation at the same time.
But if you want a new GPU it is the start of a new nightmare... anyway i don't need a new GPU.

asturur
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#5827676 Posted on: 09/09/2020 03:19 PM
I was sure.

Tomislav Makaj
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#5827680 Posted on: 09/09/2020 03:21 PM
I sincerely hope there is a special section in Hell reserved just for Cryptominers...now again we will have to pay a hefty premium just to get a new card for gaming! Also i hope Ether and others drop to 0.0005$ a piece and all of them lose everything! Yes, I am raging...

urbancamper
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#5827682 Posted on: 09/09/2020 03:22 PM
aw crap...

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