Miners in China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun bulk-buying gaming laptops powered by GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs. The move follows Nvidia’s announced plans to restrict the hash rate on desktop GPUs. This is according to Hardware Times.
The mobile version of the RTX 3060 on eBay now costs around $1,000 — roughly the same as the full desktop card. Based on the Ampere architecture, it runs with low power consumption, while its hash rate can reach 48.99 MH/s, comparable to the RTX 2080 Super.
Back in February Nvidia announced its plan to double the hash rate limit on new desktop GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. The mobile variants were not affected.
Nvidia says the reduced mining efficiency is a means of addressing the hardware shortage affecting gamers.
For professional miners, Nvidia unveiled its Cryptocurrency Mining Processor line of chips.
Earlier, Chinese miners assembled a farm of laptops based on GeForce RTX 30 GPUs capable of generating $77,000 a year in Ethereum.
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