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The core clock is undervolted while mining - but the memory clock is absolutely cranked to the maximum it will support.

I've been idly mining on an RTX3080 for 6 months now, and the hashrate has slowly gone down about 20% since new. I suspect the thermal pads on the memory chips are slowly cooking. I replaced them once already and restored a bit of hashrate.



out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing that info, how many bitcoins have you mined with 1 card in 6 months?

Did it pay for the electricity and the card itself at the current BTC price?


It earns about $6-10US/day, off surplus solar during the day and about 50c of grid electricity through the night.


Interesting, that's much higher than I expected. Thanks for the info!




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