Miners repurpose gaming laptops for Ethereum mining

A new gaming laptop with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics processor demonstrated decent results in Ethereum mining. The overclocked GPU managed to reach 48.99 MH/s. This is evidenced by posts on the Tieba Baidu forum.

The obtained results are comparable in speed to the RTX 2080 SUPER desktop GPU and 19% slower than the new desktop RTX 3070, VideoCardz reports.

Data: Tieba Baidu.

The RTX 3060 laptop GPU has 3,840 CUDA cores, while the desktop variant has only 3,584. The mobile version is power-limited to 80 W, but it can be configured up to 130 W (35 W from OEM settings and 15 W from Dynamic Boost). The desktop GPU’s rating is 170 W.

From the published screenshots, the user tested the Max-P version of the card, which by default has memory speed of 14 Gbps. However, to increase mining performance, the memory was overclocked to 2125 MHz, raising the bandwidth to 17 Gbps.

Data: Tieba Baidu.

The processor was limited by a thermal design parameter (TDP) of 105 W, a total graphics power (TGP) of 56 W, and a core clock of 1,567 MHz.

There were also photos on Baidu of a small mining farm built from laptops with GeForce RTX 3080. The author of the build did not disclose its specs.

RTX 3080 Mobile -> Mining pic.twitter.com/tUbxiqD0Cx

— 포시포시 (@harukaze5719) January 26, 2021

Experts did not rule out that the success of such experiments could shift ETH miners away from gaming GPUs toward desktop GPUs.

Earlier, a resident of the United States created a miniature mining farm from six Nvidia RTX 3080 video cards and placed it in the trunk of a hybrid sports car BMW i8, to annoy the gamers.

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