ASRock, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and minicomputers, recently launched a new mining machine in Slovenia. The mining machine is equipped with 12 AMDBC-250 mining cards and claims to have a computing power of 610MH/s. And these mining cards may contain Oberon chips that were eliminated from the PS5.
According to “Tom’sHardware”, Twitter user and whistleblower Komachi pointed out that the CPU is not listed on the product page of the miner, which means that the CPU part of the PS5 accelerated processing unit (APU) may be used for general processing. Or housekeeping work, the device uses 16GB of GDDR6 memory, which is the same configuration as the PS5.
Another person familiar with the matter also told Tom’sHardware that the miner may be equipped with an outdated PS5 Oberon processor. This means that AMD has found a new way to deal with substandard PS5 chips after selling substandard PS5 chips through AMD4700S core processor desktop kits.
The computing power can reach 610MH/s
According to the introduction of the Slovenian sales website, the new miner is called “ASROCK MINING RIG BAREBONE 610 Mhs 12x AMD BC-250″, and the price is about 14,800 US dollars. The sales page advertises this product as “for cryptocurrency mining. A high-quality computer from mine, backed by a warranty from the well-known manufacturer ASRock.” The sales page also states that this product is the result of “a partnership between AMD and ASRock.”
The sales page provides several schematic diagrams to show the mining machine from multiple angles. You can see that there are 12 mining cards arranged in a row, but there is no obvious brand logo. The introduction says that these cards are “12x AMD BC-250 mining APU. Passive design”, which means that each board has a PS5 APU, plus 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 5 cooling fans, and 2 1200W power supplies.
The mining machine claims to have a total computing power of 610MH/s when mining ether (ETH). It’s about $3, but mining returns depend on the cost of electricity for miners, as well as the ever-changing price of ether.
In comparison, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card has a computing power of about 120MH/s, and the card is priced at $2,200 in the United States. To match the computing power of ASRock’s new mining machine, it will take about Five 3090 graphics cards ($11,000) and other components like a 1500W power supply to support the 3090 graphics card.
However, “Tom’sHardware” is not very optimistic about this mining machine and believes that although the price of Ethereum has risen recently, its mining difficulty has become more and more difficult, which has weakened the attractiveness of miners. In addition, in the next few Within a month, Ethereum may switch from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanisms, making it pointless to drop $14,800 in miners now.
Post time: Apr-24-2022