Nvidia's Chinese OEM partners are now using the GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPU (test), which was actually designed for use in gaming notebooks, as the “GeForce RTX 3070M”. Desktop graphics cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. The performance is estimated at 60 – 65 MH/s.
Laptop GPUs on mining graphics cards
On the Chinese online trading platform Taobao, Nvidia's Chinese OEM partners offer a variety of custom designs of the “GeForce RTX 3070M” with 8 GB, which are desktop graphics cards based on the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU with the Ampere GPU GA104-770-A1 with 5,120 ALUs.
The Twitter user @I_Leak_VN, who shared the information via the short message service, first became aware of the numerous offers from the Chinese online retailer.
More result:https://t.co/yNlE5X8xy1 pic.twitter.com/kaxFaLthz0
— I_Leak_VN (@I_Leak_VN) May 26, 2022
A search on the online trading platform also brings up other offers of “misused” laptop GPUs from Nvidia.< /p>
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
The specifications of the mining Graphics cards match those of the laptop GPUs from Nvidia.
65 MH/s at 100 watts are possible
They typically use GA104 and GA106 GPUs with 5,120 and 3,840 CUDA cores, respectively, and are advertised as having an average hash rate of 60 to 65 MH/s while consuming 100 watts.
Complete systems in use, so-called mining rigs, based on the GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPU converted into a desktop or mining graphics card can already be found on Taobao.
65 MH/s at 90 to 100 watts (Image: Taobao) < /figure>
Here, too, the mobile Ampere graphics card achieves a peak speed of up to 65 MH/s with a consumption of 90 to 100 watts.
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