Once a special model for mining cards, Nvidia RTX 3080 20GB appeared in the consumer market with a price of 4000 yuan

CTOnews.com Sept. 5 news, a Nvidia never officially released RTX 3080 20GB graphics card appeared on the second-hand trading platform, the price is 4000 yuan.

According to foreign media VideoCardz, Nvidia had planned to produce three different models for the RTX 3080: 10GB, 12GB and 20GB, but in the end only the 10GB and 12GB models were available. The RTX 3080 20GB graphics card in the above figure should be a dedicated model for the mining market.

According to the seller, he has 100 pieces of RTX 3080 20GB, with a hash rate of 97.48 MH / s. However, Ethernet Square, the main graphics card mining platform, is about to run based on the PoS interest proof mechanism, and will no longer be able to carry out PoW mining.

CTOnews.com has learned that Nvidia will soon release a new RTX 40 graphics card in October. The first models are expected to include RTX 4090, 4080 and RTX 4070, which will greatly improve the performance of the RTX 30 series.