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Hope for an finish to the GPU shortage comes from an unexpected source

The Chinese mining unfaltering, Bitmain, has released a annoyer for its upcoming ASIC Antminer E9 Etherum mining loge. This is potentially good news for PC gamers because the Antminer E9 is much better at mining Ethereum than even the best graphics cards out there, with a hash plac of 3 GH/s—that's same to 32 GeForce RTX 3080s.

If true, that hasheesh plac would make the Antminer E9 the fastest Ethereum ASIC available (via Tom's Hardware), faster than the Linzhi Phoenix Ethash ASIC mineworker, which supposedly manages 2,600 MH/s (although good luck actually buying one). Power usage is besides a major factor with such solutions, and at 2,556W the Antminer uses less power than the Linzhi offering, which is a 3,000W ASIC.

If serious miners were to jump over to exploitation the likes of the Antminer E9, that would free up graphics card game for gamers, although presumption it's potential to cost around something around $20,000-40,000, this is for the large-mouthed Ethereum mining trading operations only. Back to the avant-garde comparison though, if a serious operation wanted to corrupt 32 GeForce RTX 3080s, you'Re presently superficial at around $2,000 per card on the likes of eBay, so $64,000 for the lot

Despite the price, the Antminer E9 will doubtless be in lofty demand. Given render problems affecting the whole industry though, Bitmain probably can't farm adequate of these boxes. Even if it can, will it have a meaningful impact on the artwork card market, peculiarly given cryptocurrency excavation is but set forth of the reason you can't buy a bran-new graphics card right now? Only metre bequeath tell.

One takeaway from this is that ASICs help accelerate the difficultness away from what is possible using general-use ironware like-minded artwork cards. So mining Ethereum on graphics cards could before long come to an finish anyway, as more ASICs appear.

Besides relevant to all of this is the fact that the Ethereum network announced a move from proof-of-work (PoW) concluded to proof-of-stake (PoS) from December 1, 2020. This agency that mining Ethereum is single related for a couple of years at most in any event.

Of course, graphics card miners will belik move onto some other cryptocurrency anyway, as there's always another coin waiting in the wings for its moment to shine. It's a risk though, and the point about Ethereum is that the returns are pretty much guaranteed reactionary now.

It's worth noting that ASIC miners are almost impossible to buy in the wild likewise, with units marketing outgoing faster than the adjacent-gen consoles or the topper graphics cards.

We butt't help but be optimistic though, here's hoping the Antminer E9 introduces a new wave of machines that free up graphics cards for other pursuits, you know, such as gambling.

Alan has been penning about PC technical school since earlier 3D graphics cards existed, and still vividly recalls having to fight with MS-DOS honorable to get games to loading. He lovingly remembers the killer combo of a Matrox Millenium and 3dfx Voodoo, and sighted Lara Croft in 3D for the first time. He's real glad hardware has advanced as much as IT has though, and is especially happy when putting the latest M.2 NVMe SSDs, AMD processors, and laptops through their paces. He has a nightlong-lasting Trick: The Gathering obsession but limits this to MTG Arena these days.