This year, the graphics cards on the market are so expensive and the price is so high. The cryptocurrency mining represented by Ethereum must be the primary reason. With the recent launch of mining machines and the launch of a new version of the lock hashrate graphics card, Ethereum mining is about to usher in a revolution, so will players be able to buy graphics cards?
Graphics card mining popularity is declining
Ethereum used to dig the most with graphics cards. Although the payback period of graphics card mining machines has been extended to about 12 months due to the recent increase in graphics card prices and the increase in computing power of the entire network, it has benefited from the repeated high prices of Ethereum ( Today’s latest price is nearly 4,000 US dollars), so miners can still make a profit, but in the future, graphics cards may no longer be the main force.
The first is the impact of mining machines. Recently, the ant mining machine E9, which has been highly concerned, has an exaggerated computing power of 3GH/s, and is currently the highest computing power mining machine on the market. To know the flagship product in the RTX 30 series, the computing power of RTX 3080 is about 94MH/s, the computing power of RTX 3090 is about 120MH/s, and the computing power of CMP 30HX mining card is about 26MH/s. One Antminer E9 is equivalent to 32 RTX 3080 and 25 RTX 3090. As for the price, Bitmain has not announced at present. The outside speculation may be between 20,000 and 30,000 US dollars, which is not cheap, but if you directly buy 25 pieces of RTX 3090, the cost of the optical graphics card will be more than 70,000 US dollars. According to calculations, using the Antminer E9, the cost can be recovered in about a quarter. With a more efficient mining machine, graphics cards are naturally not the first choice.
Secondly, after NVIDIA failed to drive the RTX 3060 computing power, it took more stringent measures. It is said that in addition to the RTX 3090, other RTX 30 series products that have been on the market and will be listed soon will be replaced with the new version of the GPU. It is the triple guarantee of hardware lock + vBios + driver to ensure that this time limit of computing power is foolproof.
Images of AMD’s new Radeon RX 6600 XT
Old RTX 3060 core
Finally, Ethereum has announced a few days ago that it will end PoW mining, that is, graphics card mining, by 2021 at the latest.
Although the graphics card computing power may be transferred to other cryptocurrencies in the end, the popularity of graphics card mining is definitely not as good as at the beginning of the year. Recently, the price of Ethereum has repeatedly hit new highs, and the price of graphics cards has not risen, but has dropped, indicating that the enthusiasm of miners for card collection is not as good as before. Moreover, a lot of second-hand RTX 30 graphics cards have appeared on the Xianyu platform recently, which is quite different from the scene of how many miners received and how much they received.
Images of NVIDIA® CMP 50HX.
The new version of RTX 30 will arrive soon
Players have been looking forward to the RTX 30 with hashrate lock for a long time. Last week, there was news that the new version of RTX 30 was postponed. It turned out to be false news. The first batch of RTX 3060 will start shipping this week. At the same time, some manufacturers’ official websites also put RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 graphics cards with new GPUs on the shelves, plus the RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti that will be released at the end of the month. This update may be completed soon.
So how do players distinguish between old and new graphics cards? NV recommends that AIC adopt special logos for new batches of graphics cards to increase players’ awareness of this type of graphics cards. For example, GALAXY’s new RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 are called: RTX 3080 Black General [FG], RTX 3080 Black General OC[RG], RTX 3070 Black General [FG]. The suffix letters indicate that they have adopted the new GPU.
The name of this product with a suffix is the new version of GALAXY’s new graphics card with lock hashrate. Other industries are also short of cards, players have to wait
Images of NVIDIA® CMP 50HX.
Then the popularity of graphics card mining has declined, and after a large number of new graphics cards are released, can players quickly buy graphics cards? This may not be necessary. The lack of graphics cards is not only because gamers cannot buy graphics cards, but also affects users in other industries. Now there is no competition from miners, giving owners of other industries the opportunity to scan products, such as the Internet cafe industry that also requires a large number of graphics cards.
Both NVIDIA and AIC brand manufacturers have received a large number of orders from industry Internet cafes. The supply from May to June is almost exhausted, leaving the amount for retail. It will be very limited.
On the other hand, NVIDIA will use the largest possible production capacity to produce CMP HX mining cards, and may even sacrifice a part of the game card chip production line and transfer production capacity to CMP HX series mining cards. Currently, it has set up plans to increase the latter’s products. String.
Therefore, it is still very difficult for gamers to buy graphics cards in a short period of time.
