At present both the AMD RX 7000 with RDNA 3 architecture, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 under Lovelace architecture, are nothing more than a promise on paper and are not (for the moment) real products. . However, there are people who claim that they already exist and that they would end up on the mining farms. What is the truth in such statements?
Mining with an NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti and an AMD RX 7000?
First of all, be skeptical of the information you see in the graph above. The reason? While it is true that we expect a big performance jump between the RTX 30 and the future RTX 40, going from the 110-120 MH / s mining rate of Ethereum in a RTX 3090
We are talking about an order of magnitude greater mining capacity, which requires enormous computing power, but we must also take into account that mining is highly dependent on bandwidth and that there is no of current VRAM configuration that doesn’t bottleneck this hypothetical RTX 4090 Ti when mining.
So what explanation does this have? Well, very simple, since it is very likely that we will find a farm that uses not GPUs, but ASICs of mine, which those who put them together have named NVIDIA’s next generation graphics cards and AMD.
they are not finished yet
The NVIDIA RTX 40 is expected for much of the second half of next year. Usually, the time between the finalization of a chip and its release for sale is six months on average. Well, during this period the GPUs are distributed to the various assemblers and manufacturers so that they have time to have their products for the launch date.
The fact that there is an NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti means that there is a graphics card designed and that a vendor, even NVIDIA itself, already has their designs ready for them. So, as has happened in other eras, we would already have information circulating on networks such as near final specifications, performance in benchmarks and everything surrounding the launch of new hardware. But that did not happen and confirms that there are still no working RTX 40s except in NVIDIA labs.
Regarding an RTX 40 that operates a farm cannot exist. NVIDIA itself may have several of its prototype graphics cards made by mining in a secret corner of its facility, but it’s totally impossible for an outdoor farm to have an RTX 4090 Ti for mining right now.