Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Comes With Diminished Mining Hashrate Too

Similar to the extra lately launched Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 that got here with mining hashrate limiter enforced by Nvidia, the brand new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti additionally got here out “with a lowered Ethereum hash price” making them much less fascinating for miners. The simply launched Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is sort of equal by way of specs to an RTX 3090 GPU, however with half the video reminiscence, so solely 12GB GDDR6X as an alternative of the complete 24GB. For the brand new RTX 3080 Ti by way of CUDA cores there’s a very slight discount and reminiscence clocks too, however the reminiscence bus stays 384-bit, so in principle efficiency clever it needs to be similar to an RTX 3090 and that goes not just for mining, however for gaming as nicely. There’s the Ethereum hashrate limiter nonetheless that messes issues up a bit for miners, however not for avid gamers and the lowered in half video reminiscence must also be making it extra reasonably priced and extra accessible to avid gamers in comparison with RTX 3080… in principle.

Making an attempt to mine Ethereum (ETH) at inventory settings for the RTX 3080 Ti exhibits a beginning hashrate at about 100 MH/s that shortly drops right down to round 53-55 MH/s with the default setting as a result of enforced hashrate limiter for mining ETH by Nvidia. The default settings for the RTX 3080 Ti from Palit/Gainward we have now tried give us 325W of energy utilization as reported by the miner. And though Nvidia talks about limiting Ethereum mining hahsrate different comparable reminiscence intensive mining algorithms may additionally be affected in addition to we have now seen already with the RTX 3060 GPUs that had been the primary to introduce the hashrate limiting resolution by Nvidia.

Going for optimized settings to scale back energy consumption for 265W and have larger hashrate (if there was no hashrate limiter in play) give us barely decrease beginning hashrate a bit under 100 MH/s, however it drops right down to round 60 MH/s and never under that like with inventory settings. So, efficiency clever mining Ethereum (if there was no synthetic hashrate limiter) the RTX 3080 Ti ought to’ve been usually able to delivering the identical hashrate as an RTX 3090 does at the moment. One thing round 100 MH/s with inventory settings and about 120 MH/s with clocked reminiscence and lowered energy utilization might’ve been attainable, however as an alternative we’re getting simply round half of that in actuality.

Now, Nvidia is speaking about Ethereum mining hashrate limiter, although another reminiscence intensive crypto mining algorithms may additionally be affected as we already know, however there are nonetheless different algorithms that might be delivering the complete hashrate with none synthetic limiters in play. Right here is an instance with RavenCoin (RVN) mining on the RTX 3080 Ti the place the hashrate will not be being artificially lowered, you can be getting about 48 MH/s hashrate for KawPoW with the inventory settings. And though this may make mining RVN extra worthwhile than ETH on this specific GPU, if the factitious ETH hashrate limiter was not current mining ETH would’ve been extra worthwhile. So, the brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will not be going to be a beautiful possibility for Ethereum miners, although another crypto miners not into ETH is likely to be , however we’re seeing beginning costs for the Ti as for the non-Ti model the place accessible. And in contrast to miners, avid gamers won’t be very joyful to purchase at these inflated costs, don’t forget nonetheless that avid gamers might be getting efficiency very near that of the a lot larger priced (for the second) RTX 3090 GPUs.

The New Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti that must also be hitting the market in a couple of days from now can be going to supply a pleasant improve by way of {hardware} specs over the older RTX 3070 GPU, however similar to the RTX 3080 Ti it would additionally include synthetic Ethereum hashrate limiter. Essentially the most notable improve for the brand new RTX3 070 Ti over the outdated non-Ti mannequin is the brand new sooner GDDR6X reminiscence which ought to in principle enhance the mining efficiency for reminiscence intensive algorithm, however as a result of Nvidia hashrate limiter Ethereum mining won’t be benefiting a lot and in reality we count on to see decrease hashrate than on RTX 3070 due to the limiter in play. Once more, another reminiscence intensive algorithms apart from Ethash is likely to be affected as nicely, although not all, and GPU intensive mining will in all probability not endure and the efficiency there needs to be barely higher than on RTX 3070.