{Hardware} producer MSI could be getting ready to launch new RTX 3060 Ti graphics playing cards particularly designed for cryptocurrency mining, which may probably alleviate the continued scarcity of the brand new Nvidia RTX 3000 collection playing cards.
The cardboard SKU, first flagged by Twitter consumer harukaze5719, confirmed up within the Eurasian Economic Commission database this week underneath the names RTX 3060 Ti Miner 8G and RTX 3060 Ti Miner 8G OC.
EEC – MSI GPURX 6900 (XT)GAMING Z TRIO, GAMING TRIO PLUSMINER pic.twitter.com/4s74rftejaJanuary 20, 2021
It is not recognized what adjustments to the specs had been made to those particular playing cards, if any, however in line with Wccftech, these playing cards shall be primarily based on the GA104-200-A1 GPU, which has 4864 CUDA cores, 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, with a switch charge of 14.0Gbps on a 256-bit bus.
What makes these “miner” variants of the 3060 Ti so particular is not clear, however contemplating that crypto miners are a reasonably utilitarian bunch, MSI and different producers will probably must do one thing extra than simply slapping a unique title on the identical card if they need miners to cease absorbing all the present RTX 3060 Ti inventory in pursuit of riches.
Cryptocurrency risk
Whereas not probably the most “profitable” graphics card for crypto mining (the RTX 3090 nonetheless guidelines that individual roost), the much more reasonably priced – and out there – RTX 3060 Ti continues to be within the prime ten, making it a beautiful possibility for miners who wish to money in on the latest spike in Bitcoin and Ethereum costs.
Whereas the worth of the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and different cryptocurrencies can swing wildly, we have undoubtedly seen a spike in costs not too long ago – making crypto mining utilizing high-powered GPUs a way more worthwhile enterprise.
That is unhealthy information for avid gamers hoping to get their arms on one in every of these new graphics playing cards. There’s already fairly monumental demand from the PC fanatic and gamer communities chasing an already pretty small provide of playing cards. Add a military of ruthless digital 49ers with the scent of a gold rush to the combo and getting your self some midrange ray tracing in 2021 shall be that a lot tougher.
