Monday, February 22nd 2021
NVIDIA's Mining Performance Cap On Unreleased ZOTAC RTX 3060 Shows Results
The NVIDIA RTX 3060 isn't even released yet, but as you might've heard, cards are already doing the rounds throughout the secondhand market at ridiculous prices. And now, to sour the pot even more, one crypto enthusiast going by the name of CryptoLeo on YouTube has shown that he already has his hands on the card - and performed a quick mining test on it. The user showcases the cards' serial number, so I hope NVIDIA is reading this post so as to know exactly which distributor this graphics card came from; breaking time-to-market likely isn't to be taken lightly by the company.
The test, done without the RTX 3060's release drivers (which are still a week away), showcases the graphics card capping its own mining performance a little after the mining algorithms begin to be processed. The card, identified in the below screenshots as tagged "1", shows a decline in performance from the initial 41.5 MH/s down to 24-24 MH/s. The card tagged as "2" is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which doesn't show the same performance decline (naturally). That the card exhibited this behavior sans release drivers goes to show that NVIDIA's solution is, at the very, very least, BIOS-based, and isn't a shoestring-budget driver-based solution that was haphazardly thrown in for good measure. And once again, it's a ZOTAC card in the mining spotlight. Is this a pattern?
The test, done without the RTX 3060's release drivers (which are still a week away), showcases the graphics card capping its own mining performance a little after the mining algorithms begin to be processed. The card, identified in the below screenshots as tagged "1", shows a decline in performance from the initial 41.5 MH/s down to 24-24 MH/s. The card tagged as "2" is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which doesn't show the same performance decline (naturally). That the card exhibited this behavior sans release drivers goes to show that NVIDIA's solution is, at the very, very least, BIOS-based, and isn't a shoestring-budget driver-based solution that was haphazardly thrown in for good measure. And once again, it's a ZOTAC card in the mining spotlight. Is this a pattern?
38 Comments on NVIDIA's Mining Performance Cap On Unreleased ZOTAC RTX 3060 Shows Results
It's not that those are wrong, it's just that we all know by now.
four of them would equal one 3080 card..
trog
And the lawyers soon rejoice
Availability from February 25th onward: 0
I wonder whom at gonna CASUALS bitch at now
OMEGALUL
performanceprofit calculator I found on the internet says, so take this with a grain of salt, the RX 6900 has half the performance of the RTX 3090. Though, on the other hand, while the mining performance of Nvidia RTX 3000 cards steadily declines as you go lower, the RX 6000 seem to all mine at nearly the same rate (this might be an error in that calculator, so I'm not sure)Some other comparisons show that the RX 580 (8 GB model) has around half the mining performance of the RX 6000 series, the Radeon VII is around 50% faster than RDNA2 cards, which are by the way around 30% faster than Vega 64 and around 10-15% faster than the RX 5700 XT.
All those comparisons, now that I'm looking into it, take into consideration a 0.10 USD/kWh energy cost but you can use a different value. And I'm not sure if they're just considering the card energy cost alone or a full system (I think it's just the card alone, though)
Check for yourself:
www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/amd-rx-6900-xt-16gb/nvidia-rtx-3090
I imagine the performance boost from one gen to another for mining operations isn't as high as it would have been otherwise, due to AMD separating compute and graphics in different lines (CDNA and RDNA).
Also, there is talk about this wonderful lock being already defeated, from reasonably trustworthy sources and with reasonable proof. For the sources you need to dig yourself in the darker corners of the Internet, but I guess this will be public knowledge soon enough.
1:1 there are 25 SKU's of 3080 listed in one store with 4 SKU's of 6800 XT. There's an obvious issue of availability when it comes to RDNA2 desktop GPU's. People were at least able to place a preorder for 3080 and wait in queue. With 6800 XT's they were either not listed at all or listed as unavailable.
AMD's entire lineup almost excusively depeneds on TSMC's 7nm node output and it shows with nextgen console/cpu/gpu availability.
trog
Those mere 24MH/s are soo bad no miner would ever think about buying this ever.
trog