If the rumors are true, then the new AMD Radeon RX 6800 (not the RX 6800XT) is 50% better for cryptocurrency mining than the reigning cryptocurrency champion, the Nvidia RTX 3090. Considering the costs associated with mining of cryptocurrency, as Videocards explains, the RTX 3090 can generate around $3.37 / £2.63 / AU$4.72 worth of cryptocurrency per day, which is roughly $103 / £80 / AU$144 per month. The RX 6800, on the other hand, can potentially pull in around £5.00 / £3.90 / AU$7.00 per day, or around £152 / £118 / AU$213 per month. The mining performance rumors were originally published, appropriately, on the Chinese messaging service QQ and later reprinted on Chiphell. At the moment, this is just a rumor, so it shouldn't be taken as gospel, but it is a rumor that is understandably upsetting to many.
How crypto mining could cause stockouts on the new Radeon RX 6800
As a specter of unrestrained capitalism haunts the PC gaming scene, crypto miners have rushed for years and paid exorbitant prices for GPUs, which they then use 24/7 to solve complicated math problems that they then generate. bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. While the rush of miners buying up GPU shares across the board has slowed since the dizzying heights of the Bitcoin boom a few years ago, demand has returned steadily. Now, with more powerful graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD launching at a lower price than the previous generation cards they are replacing, it looks like cryptominers may be aggressively buying stock again. One of the biggest issues with the launch of Nvidia Ampere graphics cards was that the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 sold out at all retailers within seconds of going on sale. This may have been a function of eBay bots and speculators taking the cards before PC enthusiasts and the gaming public could go through the checkout process. If the RX 6800, which is the cheapest of the three AMD RX 6000 series cards announced so far, turns out to beat the reigning GPU profitability champion in mining, it's all but guaranteed. a prime candidate for crypto mining scarcity. Fortunately, AMD seems to be anticipating this and seems to have a new GPU in the works designed specifically with cryptominers in mind. I hope this gives the rest of us a chance to get one of these new cards ourselves.