The GeForce RTX 3060 will officially go on sale this Thursday, February 25, and will be the first ever NVIDIA models to feature incorporated “protection” against mining, respectively, should have an extremely low performance during hashing, so that they do not pay off for mining. –
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One SKU that miners may not be interested in, of course, will not solve anything, because even if we exclude miners from the equation, then scalpers and end customers, who are starved by the long-term unavailability of graphics cards, will come to the available pieces. That’s why GeForce RTX 3060 can be offered in the Belarusian bazaar Onliner (via VideoCardz), where they appeared in terms of approximately CZK 23,000. And this is the price at which people were reluctant to buy the RTX 3080 last year, ie cards standing in the hierarchy three degrees higher. –
According to the description, one of the offered cards was unpacked, allegedly for the purpose of authentication and as the VideoCardz server points out, it was perhaps more a matter of verifying that the card is really unsuitable for Etherea mining, so the owner decided to send it together with others. further with an appropriate surcharge. Or it’s just a scalper, which also showed the labels of all cards and serial numbers in the ad, so the manufacturer (Gigabyte) can very easily find out which seller or distributor the cards escaped, of course, if he is interested in it at all.
We still have no news that anyone can increase the hash power of the new cards in Etherea mining again, but that will probably come up. Now it’s more a question of whether even the reduced performance will not be enough for the RTX 3060 to be profitable in the end. This, of course, depends mainly on the value of cryptocurrencies, while Ethereum is currently around 40 thousand crowns for one and nothing significant is happening in the development of its value (as in the case of Bitcoin), or the gradual growth started at the beginning of the year.
However, according to new information, even a truncated RTX 3060 can earn its owner about $ 6.5 per day. The power limiter is according to CryptoLeo channel focuses only on the notorious Ethereum, but not on other cryptocurrencies that can be mined on graphics cards. Their hashing algorithms are not recognized by the system, so in the case of mining Octopus, Cortex and others it runs at full power. So, unfortunately, it does not look like the miners will lose interest in the new cards, regardless of NVIDIA’s measures. –
As for the prices of the RTX 3060 in stores, they are definitely not offered for about $ 1,000, as well as for half, but even that is a significantly inflated price. We have it here a few examples from the US market, where MSRP should pay $ 329, or about $ 400 for better card versions. –
- MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio: $514,99
- MSI RTX 3060 Ventus X2: $484,99
- Zotac RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC $499,99
- Asus RTX 3060 ROG Strix OC $499,99
- Asus RTX 3060 TUF Gaming OC: $489,99
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