Tuesday, September 22nd 2020
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dagger-Hashimoto Mining Performance Leaked; Ampere Likely Not on Miners' Minds
Alleged mining benchmarks of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 3090 graphics card have leaked, and the scenario looks great for non-mining usages. The RTX 3090 is being quoted as achieving 120 MH/s on the ubiquitous Dagger-Hashimoto ETHash protocol. That number in itself is impressive - but not when one considers the cards' 350 W board power. granted, a 100% PL isn't the best scenario for mining - and one would expect no knowledgeable miners to use their graphics cards on the NVIDIA-shipped power-curve spot their graphics cards come in at (nor AMD cards, mind you).
The RTX 3080 may be a better example, as there have been more numerous benchmarks done on that particular GPU. It strikes the best balance in performance and power at around 65% PL (210 W), where it achieves 79.8 MH/s. However, previus-gen AMD RX 5700 XT graphics cards have been shown around 50 MH/s whilst consuming only 110 W (with underclocking and undervoltage), which, paired with that particular graphics card's pricing, makes it a much, much better bet for mining efficiency and return on investment. The point is this: reports of miners gobbling up RTX 3000 series stock are, at least for now, apparently unfounded. And this may mean us regular users of graphics cards can rest assured that we won't have to deal with miner-induced shortages. At least until AMD's Navi flounders (eh) to shore.
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The RTX 3080 may be a better example, as there have been more numerous benchmarks done on that particular GPU. It strikes the best balance in performance and power at around 65% PL (210 W), where it achieves 79.8 MH/s. However, previus-gen AMD RX 5700 XT graphics cards have been shown around 50 MH/s whilst consuming only 110 W (with underclocking and undervoltage), which, paired with that particular graphics card's pricing, makes it a much, much better bet for mining efficiency and return on investment. The point is this: reports of miners gobbling up RTX 3000 series stock are, at least for now, apparently unfounded. And this may mean us regular users of graphics cards can rest assured that we won't have to deal with miner-induced shortages. At least until AMD's Navi flounders (eh) to shore.
24 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dagger-Hashimoto Mining Performance Leaked; Ampere Likely Not on Miners' Minds
It gets 50Mh/s and consumes 130w. Ampere numbers are not good in comparison. RDNA2 on the other hand...gonna be a hell of an October for AMD!
Over the years, we've received build list from well shod users who, it would seem, just went to pcpartpicker and picked the most expensive parts in each category ... even with placeholders for "the next big thing". I have gotten 3 buld lists from a user whc wants a dualie system (2 systems inside same case) with the 24 core threadripper doing ITX server duty and an ATX gaming system. Each time, when whatever he was waiting for comes out, he heard rumors of the next big thing and postpones the build. Im don't think I will be alive at this rate when he is ready to build ... and I'm getting more and more reluctant to be involved ... would have walked away but it's a good friend's nephew.
We won't really know the value of the 3090 till we see what it does in real world applications and we can compare it to both consumer and gaming cards.
Sure, the demand isn't like the mining boom 2017 BUT I am seeing several people building 4-6 pcs 3080 card rigs on forums.
All cards that goes to miners are cards not ending in gamers hands.
ALSO many miner have good contacts with distributors buying stock out the backdoor and thus taking away stock that supposed to go to retail.
This means it will be even harder to get a card when you are competing with both scalpers and miners for cards.
TPU Users: Yet more theories about how to stop the miners.
Anyways, no point in getting angry over anyone building a machine learning system with several cards. Mining might be pointless but ML systems are probably being used for work or school - hard to argue gaming should take precendence over that.
There's a reason no threads are being posted of miners building GTX 3080 rigs from btctalk... because no one is.
I'd like to see sol/s rate for ZEC myself.
I used it in the winter as a heater, while in the summer I placed it on top of concrete beam which ran through the middle of my dad's woodworking shop.
Ah, the good times.
My advise is to try to remember what new sites you visit and what software you install and where you got that software so you know who the culprit was when your system is suddenly slow as molasses.
In my experience too many people can't answer the 'so what did you install right before?' or 'Where did you Download it?' when they tell you about such issues.
You can sort by date in the windows (un)install list though.
It's doubly annoying since it gives companies like MS an excuse to come with their goddamn 'app stores'.
From what's been reported so far the RTX3090 only has about 10% more mining performance than the current king the RTX3080 so it's unlikely to see as much of a mining demand (today at least, performance of new cards improves over time, I.E the Vega cards saw a 50% improvement after a week of launch).