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Pre-NDA Zotac RTX 3060 Torndown By Crypto-YouTuber

Home News (Image credit: @harukaze5719) Nvidia announced its RTX 3060 last month, later revealing that it was putting the brakes on Ethereum mining performance with this card. Simultaneously, Nvidia announced the professional ‘CMP’ mining GPUs. However, within all this, CryptoLeo, a Russian YouTuber that specializes in cryptocurrency, showed that the GPU was still profitable to… Read more

Gaming Performance Tested On ‘Worn Out’ RTX 2080 Ti Mining Card

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The potential to have reduced gaming performance from a used mining card has been a long-debated question. YouTube channel Testing Games posted a new video to look into the matter. Testing Games benchmarked a used RTX 2080 Ti that’s been mining hard for 1.5 years, compared to a fresh new… Read more

Will There Be a Desktop RTX 3060 6GB?

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) As tweeted by @Harukaze5719, Palit has added one more indication there may be additional (future) RTX 3060 variants. Palit filed listings for new RTX 3060 model names with the NRRA, and one model in particular showcases the RTX 3060 with 6GB of VRAM. Even before the official RTX 3060 announcement… Read more

Best Budget 4K Monitors 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) When it comes to sharp image quality, 4K resolution is where it’s at in 2021. Sure, there are 8K screens and even more modest 6K ones. And lower resolutions deliver higher frame rates on even the best graphics cards. . But if we’re being realistic about what our eyes need… Read more

Emtek Revises GeForce RTX 2060 Design In Latest Revival

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Emtek, a South Korean manufacturer, has revamped one of its GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card designs to offer it at a lower price tag. Now that Nvidia is replenishing its board partners with GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti dies to offset the impact of recent shortages, it begs… Read more

Nvidia says it won’t nerf the Ethereum mining performance of existing GPUs

This morning, Nvidia announced that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $329 GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card when it comes to one specific task: Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. As weird as that news might sound, it was music to the ears of some gamers — who have been trying and failing to get… Read more

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New ‘Cryptocurrency Mining Processor’ Line of GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to “address the specific needs of Ethereum mining” and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060… Read more

German Retailer Briefly Lists RTX 3070 Ti PC Build

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is a great GPU, but the RTX 3060 Ti edges so close to it in performance that it has become the more popular card. But between the MSRP’s of the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, which are supposed to retail at $499 and $699, respectively, there is… Read more

Best Mining GPUs Benchmarked and Ranked

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) What’s the best mining GPU, and is it worth getting into the whole cryptocurrency craze? Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are making headlines again; prices and mining profitability are way up compared to the last couple of years. Everyone who didn’t start mining last time is kicking themselves for their… Read more

GeForce RTX 3060 Will Hit The Shelves On February 25 At $329

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 3060 last month, and today, the chipmaker has finally confirmed that it will be available on February 25. At $329, the GeForce RTX 3060 would be the cheapest ray tracing graphics card in Nvidia’s Ampere product stack. Historically, Nvidia’s GeForce 60-series products… Read more

Thanks to Miners and Scalpers, eBay Pricing for Ampere, RDNA2 GPUs Continues to Rise

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Finding the best graphics card at anything approaching reasonable pricing has become increasingly difficult. Just about everything we’ve tested in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is sold out unless you go to eBay, but current eBay prices will take your breath away. If you thought things were bad before, they’re… Read more

Nvidia’s $329 RTX 3060 graphics card is launching on February 25th

We already knew that Nvidia was making a $329 RTX 3060 graphics card. And today, Nvidia announced that it will make its most affordable GPU in the RTX 3000 series available at retailers beginning February 25th. Retailers will open orders for the RTX 3060 starting at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. Nvidia tells The Verge… Read more

Zephyrus Duo 15 Modified to Run RTX 3080 at a Higher TGP With VBIOS Swap

Home News (Image credit: Asus) A Chinese tweaker has almost managed to break records on the notebook 3DMark scoreboard by modifying an RTX 3080 equipped ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 to run at 155W instead of the GPU’s default TDP of 130W. The mod was made by transferring the VBIOS from another RTX 3080 equipped laptop,… Read more

Nvidia Rewarms RTX 2060, GTX 1050 Ti Amidst GPU Shortage

Home News GeForce RTX 2060 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) When you can’t supply enough of the latest and greatest graphics cards to the market, it’s time to heat up some of the old-time bestsellers. Nvidia has confirmed to PCWorld that the company is effectively resupplying older Turing and Pascal GPUs to its board partners to… Read more

MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio Review

Introduction Today, we bring you our first review of a custom design Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card in the MSI RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio. When AMD originally announced the RX 6000 series “Big Navi,” with the RX 6900 XT release set for its own exclusive date, the company hadn’t made up its… Read more