Here is some very good news for players: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card would be very bad for mining cryptocurrency. This information in addition to the fact that crypto prices are collapsing for several reasons could well please gamers. Indeed, if this map of NVIDIA does not interest minors, undeniably the stocks will only be taken by storm by real gamers.
Between the RTX 3050’s large stocks and its lackluster mining performance, gamers should be happy
It was a Chinese source from VideoCardz who leaked this information. The RTX 3050 would have the famous LHR (Lire Hash Rate) which is used to voluntarily decrease the hash rate in a mining usage. In practice, according to the screenshot the card is able to run at only about 12.5 MH/s for a consumption of 73 watts. We are of course talking about the speed regarding ETH (Ethereum). Moreover, these figures were confirmed by a Chinese Youtuber publishing roughly similar results of 13.66 MH/s for 57 watts. His card was therefore probably optimized for this use.
With this speed and this consumption, the return on investment would be done in about 500 days by estimating the price of the card at 250 dollars (the price announced by NVIDIA). A price that does not therefore represent the real market, the time required for profitability will therefore in reality be much longer than that. In addition, remember that it will soon no longer be possible to mine Ethereum with graphics cards, making the investment in RTX 3050s to mine particularly useless. Indeed, in June 2022 Ethereum will move from a Proof of Work (PoW) model to a Proof os Stake (PoS) model.