{"id":38480,"date":"2021-03-08T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38480"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:54:02","slug":"ethereum-miners-trigger-gaming-laptop-shortage-as-nvidia-tightens-hash-rate-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-miners-trigger-gaming-laptop-shortage-as-nvidia-tightens-hash-rate-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum miners trigger gaming-laptop shortage as Nvidia tightens hash-rate limits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miners in China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun bulk-buying gaming laptops powered by GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs. The move follows Nvidia&#8217;s announced plans to restrict the hash rate on desktop GPUs. This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwaretimes.com\/miners-start-hoarding-gaming-laptops-as-stocks-dwindle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardware Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The mobile version of the RTX 3060 on eBay now costs around $1,000 \u2014 roughly the same as the full desktop card. Based on the Ampere architecture, it runs with low power consumption, while its hash rate can <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miners-repurpose-gaming-laptops-for-ethereum-mining\">reach 48.99 MH\/s<\/a>, comparable to the RTX 2080 Super.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February Nvidia announced its plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nvidia-to-cap-hash-rate-on-geforce-rtx-3060-gpus\">double the hash rate limit<\/a> on new desktop GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. The mobile variants were not affected.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia says the reduced mining efficiency is a means of addressing the hardware shortage affecting gamers.<\/p>\n<p>For professional miners, Nvidia unveiled its Cryptocurrency Mining Processor line of chips.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Chinese miners assembled a farm of laptops based on GeForce RTX 30 GPUs capable of generating <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/china-based-miners-assemble-a-laptop-farm-capable-of-yielding-77000-in-ethereum-per-year\">$77,000 a year<\/a> in Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miners in China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun bulk-buying gaming laptops powered by GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs. This followed Nvidia&#8217;s announced plans to restrict the hash rate of desktop GPUs. This is according to Hardware Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,46,1294],"class_list":["post-38480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ethereum","tag-nvidia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38481,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions\/38481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}