Crazy, graphics cards are hard to find, and miners are eyeing laptops again

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Miners Eyeing Gaming Notebooks

The sharp rise of cryptocurrencies has driven the continued enthusiasm of the mining machine industry chain, and RTX series graphics cards have been snapped up by miners!

According to AMD's latest financial report for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal year 2020, revenue in the fourth quarter was US$3.244 billion, an increase of 948% compared with US$170 million in the same period last year.

According to the latest analysis from Wall Street, NVIDIA’s Q4 fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2021 (November last year to January this year) is expected to surge 58% in revenue, which will be the strongest quarter in three years.

Such impressive performance is mainly driven by the mining demand of the majority of miners. Even though the market has been hot for many months, the production capacity of manufacturers is still not enough. Against such a background, the thirst for graphics cards has made miners focus on a new target-gaming notebooks!

Many notebook brand manufacturers such as Shenzhou, ASUS Tianxuan, Lenovo, etc., have launched the RTX30 series of high-end graphics notebooks for the first time. However, where there is profit from the price difference, there are scalpers. With the high attention of many miners, high-end graphics card notebooks have also entered a situation where it is hard to find one. The software plug-in party has shifted from robbing Moutai to robbing notebooks.

Moutai is no longer fragrant, shocking!

Judging from the current situation, some miners first disassemble the newly purchased notebooks, and then reassemble the removed motherboards, graphics cards, etc. into mining machines for mining.

There are also miners who use it directly for mining.

According to the test of a netizen in a post bar, the mining efficiency of the RTX 3060 gaming laptop (Max-P), the GPU computing power is about 49MH/s. That's 19% lower than the RTX 3070 desktop graphics card, but still comparable to the RTX 2080 Super.

Overall, the RTX 3060 has a video memory of 2125 MHz (equivalent to 17Gbps), a core frequency of 1567MHz, a GPU power consumption of 56 watts, and a thermal design power consumption of the entire card of 105 watts.

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Manufacturers seek to change the situation

With the fierce market demand, graphics card manufacturers can't sit still!

On January 12, the executive vice president and chief financial officer of chip manufacturing giant Nvidia said that it is very likely to restart the production of cryptocurrency mining GPU graphics cards in the future.

Compared to the Nvidia RTX 30 series which is currently popular with miners, Nvidia prefers dedicated graphics cards called CMPs. Demand for Nvidia gaming graphics cards is still strong, but since the supply of the RTX 30 series will remain tight until at least the end of the first quarter of 2021, restarting CMP production will undoubtedly be a compromise choice to ease the pressure on consumer product lines.

Recently, the manufacturer MSI said that it is preparing to produce a dedicated mining card, and will launch a dedicated mining card for RTX 3060 Ti, which can be paid back in half a year at the current currency price.

A few days ago, a variety of new cards appeared on the certification page of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The suffix ends with miner (miner), obviously preparing for mining. Among these graphics cards, MSI has two RTX 3060 Ti series, and AMD has RX 470 Miner and RX 580 Miner 8GB.

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How long can the graphics card still mine?

ETH 2.0 launched the beacon chain on December 1, 2020, but Justin, the core developer of Ethereum, is not optimistic about the progress of the merger plan, and believes that the merger of ETH 1.0 and ETH 2.0 may not be possible until 2021.

In other words, it will take at least a year for ETH to switch to the POS mechanism. If development is delayed, this time window will be extended.

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