Availability for NVIDIA and AMD’s newest graphics playing cards is dire, to say the least; the common client finds their shares to be spotty, at greatest, with accessible playing cards shortly dropping into oblivion. Scalpers and their associates are a part of the issue, as is already well-known; nonetheless, one other component to this similar drawback – not less than, with regards to quite a few graphics playing cards discovering their strategy to the identical shoppers, as a substitute of being accessible for others – is mining. Because whereas we’re positively not dealing with the identical shortages as we have been again within the day the place everybody and their mom needed to get into mining utilizing our tried and true graphics playing cards, mining farms are nonetheless a actuality, and they’re making use of NVIDIA (and AMD’s) newest graphics playing cards as effectively.
Case in level, a mining farm operating as many as 78 PNY RTX 3080 graphics playing cards has surfaced in Las Vegas. This 78-card mining farm was apparently put along with a $100,000 funds (round $1,199 per card, not contemplating different set up prices). For that cash, the mining farm needs to be able to round 6,474 MH/s (83 MH/s per RTX 3080), which quantities to a month-to-month Ethereum manufacturing of round 17.three ETH monthly (pricing fluctuates, so we cannot give an estimation on greenback worth for every ETH). Associated electrical energy operating prices with such a system, together with cooling, ought to pan out round 23.four kW (with an estimated 300 W of energy for every card) at $8.34 per Kw.
