Uh, so if you thought using 78x GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards to mine cryptocurrency was crazy – now crypto miners are picking up GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops and mining crypto with them. Make 20x of these RTX 3060 gaming laptops $ 74,000 a year…
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We all know how impossible it is to buy graphics cards right now, so some Chinese crypto miners buy NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops and use them to mine crypto. Weibo blogger named 神 鱼 BTCe has shared images on their social media, showing off the GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops, all stacked up.
You can see in the images both above and below all new GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops with GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards – from Chinese OEM company Hasee.
The laptops themselves cost just over $ 1000 each, so the 20x GeForce RTX 3060 series gaming laptops would cost $ 20,000 or so. If you had enough power cheaply, it would be a great investment, given that cryptocurrency prices – and Ethereum in particular, are currently on the rise.
Our friends at TechARP worked out what a single GeForce RTX 3060 laptop should be, on average, with ETH mining:
- 0.000265045 ETH per hour
- 0.00636108 ETH per day
- 0.1908324 ETH per month (30 days)
- 2.3217942 ETH per year
That means if you had 20 laptops with the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card in them, you’d go to a huge:
- $ 8,908 per hour
- $ 213.80 per day
- $ 6,413.87 per month (30 days)
- $78,035 per year
At that rate, you would pay off the investment of the laptops ($ 20,000) in 4 months (if the ETH prices stay the same). The electricity tariff in China is about RMB 0.545, or about US $ 0.084, per kWh. Each laptop should use about 250W of power on average, adding an additional $ 3,679 per year.
With that in mind, the 20x GeForce RTX 3060 gaming laptops earn $ 6400 + per month and $ 74,000 + per year. Pretty incredible!
