Editor's Note: This article comes fromBabbitt Information (ID: bitcoin8btc), author: Wang Jiajian, published with authorization.
Editor's Note: This article comes from
Babbitt Information (ID: bitcoin8btc)
Babbitt Information (ID: bitcoin8btc)
, author: Wang Jiajian, published with authorization.
Recently, Nvidia was completely "upperformed" by Ethereum and announced two important things.
First, the hash rate of the RTX3060 graphics card is reduced by 50% through software, that is to say, the mining efficiency is reduced by half, and the purpose is to restrain miners from frantically sweeping RTX3060. Second, announced the launch of NVIDIA CMP, a chip tailored for Ethereum mining.
The background is simple, ETH is skyrocketing, and miners are frantically sweeping up goods. Taking Nvidia's latest and strongest 30 series as an example, the prices of 3060 and 3070 have almost doubled. Some practitioners feel that it is estimated that most of the high-end game graphics cards should have flowed into the mining circle.
This makes it difficult for the original market users of graphics card brands, that is, gamers, to buy these game graphics cards easily and cost-effectively. After the news came out, some netizens left a message on the Baidu forum: I cried, there is hope for buying a graphics card.
Zhang Li, the founder of Langshen Mining Machine, asked three questions.
1. What is the current market demand and supply of graphics cards?
2. What impact will Nvidia's "New Deal" have on the mining industry?
His answer:
1. The demand is greater than the supply, and there is demand for the whole series at present.
2. It will not have a particularly large impact.
3. Keep rising.
secondary title
The graphics card is in power, and the notebook mine has become a witness of the bull market of Ethereum
At present, which graphics cards are mining Ethereum? According to Zhang Songqing, the co-founder of minerOS, the main force is still the old-generation A-cards such as 588, which have a large volume.
The 30 series graphics cards launched by Nvidia in the fourth quarter of 2020, such as 3060Ti, 3070, 3080, 3090, etc., and 1660S, have become the most cost-effective models for mining at present, and their prices have almost doubled. But the current shipments of this new batch of cards are not large. Relatively speaking, 3060Ti and 3070 are more.
Recently, China laptops equipped with the above-mentioned graphics cards, even 20 series graphics cards, have been snapped up. Some miners ridiculed that Chinese miners saved China.
In the Ethereum mining circle, videos of laptops turning on mining have been circulated wildly. The birth of laptop mines may be the best explanation for this bull market."Then, Nvidia reduces the hash rate of the RTXN3060 graphics card by 50%, can this force miners to give up the demand for graphics cards, so that gamers can spend leisurely?"Guo Weicheng, founder of Panda Miner and Niubit, said this will reduce some of the demand for miners. However, as long as there are goods in the short term, there will still be a lot of demand.
Some netizens also commented that it may not be appropriate for Nvidia to limit the hash efficiency of graphics cards to about 50% when mining ETH through software drivers.
It can drive half the power of the full-priced product you bought back. Which country's law gave him this right?
they said.
Therefore, perhaps with the madness of Ethereum, for example, the price breaks through 2,000 US dollars, for miners, everything is needed.
secondary title
Nvidia pushes the "mining card" again, and the mining industry ridicules "poor power consumption"
It is not surprising that Nvidia launched mining-specific chips. In the bull market of 2017, Ethereum miners also bought graphics cards. Nvidia launched P104, P106 and other mining-specific chips. At that time, with the end of the bull market, the demand from the mining circle decreased, and graphics card manufacturers accumulated a lot of inventory for this purpose.
It is reported that the mining chip launched this time does not do graphics processing, but is optimized for mining Ethereum, which also improves the overall energy efficiency.
There are 4 models of this batch of chips specially prepared for mining, and the first batch of sales is expected to be in March 2021. The following is the official mining card performance data.
In this regard, the Weibo big V "Big Demon King FCP" said: "Lao Huang's mining card has a low energy consumption ratio, so the graphics card will be more expensive when playing like this."
Shenyu also retweeted and said: "At first glance, it looks like a slag chip castrated and sold to miners. The power consumption is really bad."
Guo Weicheng told Babbitt that he guessed that there is a high probability that Nvidia has castrated the display output of the 1660s and specially supplied it to the mining field.
In fact, chip manufacturers such as Nvidia are not interested in the demand from the mining circle, and are even a little worried. The panic buying of miners will largely disrupt the original market order. 2017 is a lesson from the past. According to a senior practitioner in the graphics card industry who did not want to be named, after the price of Ethereum rose, Nvidia has actually begun to pay attention to the needs of the mining circle, but he did not expect that mining chips would be produced so quickly.
Judging from the data disclosed so far, miners are diss mining cards one after another, but the selling price of these mining cards cannot be confirmed at present. good smell.
Zhang Songqing also introduced that their software has been optimizing the power consumption ratio and stability of the new generation of graphics cards, such as the 30 series of N cards, and the 5x series of A cards and the 6x series of new cards.
Based on this, it can also be speculated that after the birth of the mining card, targeted optimization work will also follow up.
