Wednesday, September 8th 2021
Cancelled Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Achieves 98 MH/s in Ethereum Mining
NVIDIA was originally planning to release the RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB of memory however this was changed shortly before the official announcement to 12 GB. This plan came very close to fruition with NVIDIA manufacturing and distributing these GPU's to board partners including Gigabyte, some of these completed cards have now been sold in limited quantities. The Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB Gaming OC was purchased by a Russian YouTuber who tested the card's cryptocurrency mining performance and uploaded the BIOS to our GPU database.
The RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB lacks official NVIDIA Game Ready drivers with Gigabyte Russia denying the existence of the model making cryptocurrency mining the only viable use for the product. The card doesn't feature the Lite Hash Rate (LHR) algorithm NVIDIA has been including on all their new cards including the RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB giving it excellent performance in Ethereum mining. The retailer had pre-configured the card with a 100 MHz boost clock increase and a 1000 MHz boost to the memory speed along with a TDP limiter of 80%.
The RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB achieved a mining hash rate of 94 MH/s in both Gminer and NBminer which is 63% higher than the LHR RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB. The retailer advertised a maximum rate of 97.99 MH/s which could be possible if the card wasn't also being used for streaming as it appears to have been in this test.
The YouTuber purchased the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB Gaming OC model from a retailer in St. Petersburg for 225,000 rubles (~3,070 USD). This price means the card could potentially pay for itself within ~400 days given current Ethereum prices. The complete video in Russian can be viewed below.
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The RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB lacks official NVIDIA Game Ready drivers with Gigabyte Russia denying the existence of the model making cryptocurrency mining the only viable use for the product. The card doesn't feature the Lite Hash Rate (LHR) algorithm NVIDIA has been including on all their new cards including the RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB giving it excellent performance in Ethereum mining. The retailer had pre-configured the card with a 100 MHz boost clock increase and a 1000 MHz boost to the memory speed along with a TDP limiter of 80%.
The YouTuber purchased the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB Gaming OC model from a retailer in St. Petersburg for 225,000 rubles (~3,070 USD). This price means the card could potentially pay for itself within ~400 days given current Ethereum prices. The complete video in Russian can be viewed below.
21 Comments on Cancelled Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Achieves 98 MH/s in Ethereum Mining
ETH hashrate is almost entirely bandwidth-limited so it could have 68 SMs like the 10GB or 82SMs like the 3090 and you'd struggle to identify any change in hashrate.
the same way MSI was caught smuggling their cards to cryptominers - Although MSI obviously deny it was them but those are a lot of cards especially when people are struggling to get their hands on even just one of them due to availability or stupidly high price. £2400-2700 for a 3090... No amount of wages is ever worth that and it is a grossly impractical use of money. You could buy so many cheap cars or even one decent car and it will out last be more practical then a 3090.
I've said it once before, and I'll say it again for your reading displeasure: it would make zero difference if gamers/non-crypto-miners suddenly stopped buying any and all graphics cards. The only thing this would accomplish is allowing more of these cards to reach the hands of crypto-miners. The pricing and lack of availability will still be there, which means you still will be unable to buy it. :kookoo:
If I have the funds and I need the card, I'm buying it, and no volume of cancel culture rhetoric is going to change that, which is basically what those regurgitated claims amount to. Whoever started that propaganda must've had their panties in a bunch because their neighbor up the street was able to afford one while they can't, or maybe they just let their jealousy get the best of them. :nutkick:
Either way, the price I, and others of similar ilk, have to pay for a graphics card has no bearing on someone else's financial inability to acquire one in the current market.
It's unfortunate that nvidia decided to say fuck it and stick with the 1200$ but it's either them making extra bucks or scalpers so whatever I guess.
Yes, stick to your 980ti & 1080p screen if it does what you need it to do, but don't be coming on here with an attitude trying to blame & shame others that can or need to upgrade while pointing your finger at them for your current "predicament". If you don't like it, well then write a book about it. You might win a Russell Prize. :sleep:
Stay on topic.
Given that all the other Ti models have increased SM counts, it's reasonable to assume that the cancelled 20GB variant has more SMs than the 3080 10GB but until more info is posted by Nvidia or an AIB like Gigabyte, we'll be in the dark. I believe even GPU-Z's core config display is just a database lookup from the GPU ID rather than a live response from the driver when queried by GPU-Z. I'm sure @W1zzard can confirm if that's the case.
It's a bit like your motherboard, it doesn't know much about the CPU core count or cache levels other than what description is given it in a deviceID lookup table. If your BIOS is old and a newer processor boots but isn't in the firmware's list of deviceIDs you'll just see "unknown processor".
Manufacturers should take notice. We will not spend this much on a video card.