The mining trend, which has become stronger in recent years, is melting the video card stocks in the market, although it brings high profits to miners. Therefore, the video card cannot be found for innocent purposes such as playing games. Nvidia took a precaution against this situation, which the game world has been suffering from for a while. This measure, which reduces the mining performance of graphics cards, will be strictly enforced on the RTX 3050 graphics card.
RTX 3050 looks awful on mining
Thanks to the high performance they offer, the RTX series graphics cards have attracted the attention of the players as well as the miners. We saw that even the RTX 2060, the lowest option of the RTX 2000 series, was exploited by miners at that time. The RTX 3050, which comes with the RTX 3000 series, is the lowest level model of the new generation. With the LHS (low digging power) restriction on the card, it looks awful for miners, ideal for gamers.
The card tested for Ethereum mining has been reported to have 12.5 MH/s excavation power. This value is terrible power to mine and it takes about 500 days for the card to pay for itself. If there is no way to circumvent the mining restriction on the card, it seems that only players will want to buy the RTX 3050.
Of course, this card does not mean that there will be peace between players and miners. Because the RTX 3050 is the least-performing card of the new generation. You don’t have the luxury of playing every game in 4K with this card. You won’t get great FPS at high resolutions, especially with ray tracing turned on. Still, if you plan to collect a mid-segment computer in the coming months, the RTX 3050 will make you smile.
Players are happy, miners are sad
The cryptocurrency world has lost a lot of blood in recent months. The power cut and the general decline in cryptocurrencies in Kazakhstan, the second most mined country in the world, are just a few of the crises experienced. The fact that the RTX 3050 will not be able to perform well in mining is bad news for miners.
It is mostly good news that the RTX 3050 will only be available to gamers while the cryptocurrency market is in the red. Because the players have not been able to find a video card for almost a year, and even if they find it, they have to pay exorbitant prices. We will see which of the two customer bases wins in the coming months.
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