Cryptocurrency mining with the help of graphics cards posed (and continues to be) a rather significant problem, as their use and purchase by people for these purposes can affect their prices and availability.
Therefore, it is not too surprising that the miner named Simon Byrne after publishing photos of his huge mining station with the nickname Berta 2 he sparked a relatively passionate debate and reaction on the Internet.
This station is composed of 78 GeForce RTX 3080 cards, which is a card whose availability is very limited. In addition, this entire rig also boasts RGB backlighting, as you can see in the preview image.
If you are interested in how much it pays to build this station, according to the server TechArp It is clear enough.
If we round the total current price of the cards, we get more or less to 100,000 US dollars (2,135,325 CZK). This report should then be able to generate about 17.3447586 ETH (Ethereum – cryptocurrency) per month, which is currently worth about $ 17,829 (price taken at the time of writing). When we subtract the price of electricity in Las Vegas, we get some $ 15,663 a month, or $ 187,596 a year.
It then follows that his investment will return in about 6 months and 12 days, so the monthly return is some 15.66%, which is really not enough. Of course, this is provided that the value of the cryptocurrency itself, which moves at lightning speed, does not fall.
After all, since the announcement of the RTX 30xx series, we have had various reports that the extraction of cryptocurrencies is on the rise again, with even tradedthat NVIDIA sold $ 175 million worth of cards in the series to miners, which may be one of the reasons why it is currently suffering from unavailability.
In any case, it will still be interesting to watch this scene.
In the end, just for the sake of interest, we will state what Berta 1, ie its previous station, looked like.
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