Many major manufacturers are readying mining-specific variants of RTX 30 series graphic cards, MSI being one of them. MSI is soon planning to release a mining-specific NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti graphic card and the card has appeared in the EEC database.
With cryptocurrency prices skyrocketing in the past month or so, crypto mining has once again gained a lot of attention. There is a big demand coming from within the mining sector for more graphics cards. It was alleged that NVIDIA may have sold a large inventory of its Ampere GPUs directly to miners but there was no concrete proof of that.
Now, third party manufacturers are also following a similar suit and preparing mining-specific cards. MSI has been spotted submitting two brand new crypto-mining graphics cards over at EEC. These cards include the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Miner which comes in both standard & factory overclocked variants.
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The RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is based on the GA104-200-A1 GPU and features 4864 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory which runs across a 256-bit bus interface at a rated clock speed of 14.0 Gbps. The card has a rated TDP of 200W and retails for $399 US. Prices for the mining variants, however, are currently unknown.
At a power limit of 120W, the RTX 3060 Ti can mine crypto at a mining hash rate of around 50-60 MH/s. The RTX 3060 Ti has a better supply than the high-end GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3090 cards and that may be the reason why we are seeing mining-specific variants of the card as well.
Currently, we do not know when MSI will release these mining-specific graphic cards. But as the mining craze is sky high, MSI will try to take benefit of the situation while the mining craze is still hot.
