RTX 3080 Mining Hash Rate Review
The RTX 3080 is widely praised as one of the best gaming GPUs to date. There’s no denying that it’s not only more powerful than the RTX 2080, but it’s also cheaper, offering better performance for the price.
Since the card has only been out for a few months, little is known about its mining performance. Luckily, one of my friends happened to be building a monster gaming rig featuring a Gigabyte RTX™ 3080 VISION OC 10G and the next-gen Ryzen 5 5600x. This beast of a PC can run Call of Duty Warzone at an average of 240fps.
The guy was kind enough to let me test the GPU on several mining algorithms.
NOTE: I’ll be getting my hands on the RTX 3090 soon to benchmark and test it on my own rig.
Pricing Disclaimer
Gigabyte RTX 3080 VISION OC 10G Specifications
| core clock | 1800MHz (reference card: 1710MHz) |
| CUDA® Colors | 8704 |
| RT Core | 2nd generation |
| tensor core | 3rd generation |
| memory clock | 19000MHz |
| memory size | 10GB |
| memory type | GDDR6X |
| memory bus | 320 bits |
| memory bandwidth | 760GB/sec |
| card bus | PCI-E 4.0×16 |
| card size | L=320 W=126 H=55mm |
| Recommended PSU | 750W |
Gigabyte RTX 3080 VISION OC 10G box opening
Gigabyte RTX 3080 VISION OC 10G Mining Hashrate
As you can see below, our first test with the 3080 didn’t produce the most surprising results. There are two reasons for this.
- still No software support Then we will be able to fully exploit the mining potential of 3080. We need both better mining software and better drivers. This is very common for cards that are new to the mining community. Note: Could not test with Bminer due to library errors.
- that much gigabyte The version is obviously memory cooling issues, which causes hashrate to decline over time. This problem Eagle OC, Vision OC, and Gaming OC cards.
On the other hand, the Asus RTX™ 3080 10G is a card that is reported to hash out up to 97Mh/s, but we haven’t had a chance to test it yet. I’ve also never experienced cooling issues with the 2080 and 2080Ti Gigabyte cards, so this is a new phenomenon. We will learn more about this issue one day and keep you updated.
The power consumption of the GeForce RTX™ 3080 Vision OC is quite high, up to 350W at standard clocks and around 250W at 70% power limit. I obviously run Ethash at lower power consumption settings which gives it an average of 85Mh/s. The full list of algos and their hashrates is as follows:
Best Hardware for 6x RTX 3080 Mining Rig
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Vision 3Dmark Benchmark
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Mining Hashrate Performance
Ethereum Hashrate Stock Clock (Micron)
RTX 3080 Ethereum hash rate (ethash)
Hash rate 87.5MH/s
- clock +1/+1000
- power limit 100
- power consumption 230w
Hashrate 82.5
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 60
- power consumption 222w
I later found out that the best setting for the highest hashrate was to set the power limit to 70% with +150/+1500 clocks.
RTX 3080 Ethereum Classic hash rate (etchash)
Hash rate 83.5MH/s
- clock +150/+1000
- power limit 60
- power consumption 222w
RTX 3080 Ravencoin hashrate (kawpow)
Hash rate 44.3MH/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 100
- power consumption 270w
Hashrate 41.2
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Green Hashrate (cuckatoo29)
Hash rate 9.4G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 340w
Hash rate 9.3G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Green Hashrate (cuckatoo32)
Hash rate 0.94G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 360w
Hash rate 0.91G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Nexus Hashrate (nexushash)
Hash rate 370MH/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 372.5MH/s
- clock +150/+0
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Lux Hashrate (phi2)
Hash rate 19MH/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 19.5MH/s
- clock +150/+0
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Veil Hashrate (progpow-veil)
Hash rate 42.5MH/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 290w
Hash rate 42.6MH/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Beam Hashrate (Beam Hash III)
Hash rate 50 Sol/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 355w
Hash rate 48 Sol/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 AE Hashrate (eternity)
Hash rate 15.6G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 14.7G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Aion (Equihash 210_9)
Hash rate 516 Sol/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 506 Sol/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Bitcoin Gold (Equihash 144,5 BgoldPoW)
Hash rate 155 Sol/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 150 Sol/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Conflux (Octopus)
Hash rate 80.8Mh/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 270w
Hash rate 81.2MH/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Cortex
Hash rate 5.25G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 5.8G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Monero V (cuckarood29v)
Hash rate 16.2G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 15.8G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Mimblewimble Coin (cuckarood29v)
Hash rate 16.2G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 16G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Vertical (vertical)
Hash rate 43Mh/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 270w
Hash rate 40Mh/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Swap (cuckaroo29s)
Hash rate 15.5G/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 350w
Hash rate 15G/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 VeriBloc (VProgPoW)
Hash rate 21.2Mh/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 270w
Hash rate 21Mh/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 YCash (Equihash 192,7 ZcashPoW)
Hash rate 71 Sol/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 355w
Hash rate 68 Sol/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Zano (ProgPowZ)
Hash rate 41Mh/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 260w
Hash rate 41Mh/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Zcoin (mtp)
Hash rate 6500Kh/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 355w
Hash rate 5,800Kh/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 Zelcash (Equihash 125,4 zelproof)
Hash rate 87 Sol/s
- clock +0/+0
- power limit 100
- power consumption 355w
Hash rate 83 Sol/s
- clock +150/+1500
- power limit 70
- power consumption 260w
RTX 3080 vs. RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080Ti mining hashrate
| Etash Hashrate | power consumption | power efficiency | efficiency* | |
| Gigabyte RTX 3080 | 85/Mh/sec | 225w | 0.37/mh/s per watt | 0.077Mh/s per dollar invested* |
| Gigabyte RTX 2080 | 41.1Mh/s | 105w | 0.391 mh/s per watt | 0.034 Mh/s per dollar invested* |
| Gigabyte GTX 1080 Ti | 40Mh/s (approx.) | 165w | 0.242 mh/s per watt | 0.04Mh/s per dollar invested* |
This is based on the best price I can currently find. The GPU market is known to be volatile, so these numbers should be used as a guide only.
To date, the Gigabyte 3080 has not provided the best power efficiency despite reducing power consumption by 30%. Another thing to keep in mind is that powerful PSUs are expensive. Therefore, it may be more profitable to assemble equipment that does not require a large PSU to operate, since it produces less and consumes less.
Now, if power efficiency isn’t that important to you, the 3080 offers a much better hash rate per dollar invested.
| RTX 3080 vs. RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080Ti Specifications | RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 | |
| GTX 1080Ti | Memory | 10GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 |
| 11GB GDDR5X | memory interface width | 320 bits | 256 bits |
| 352 bits | memory bandwidth | 760GB/sec | 448 GB/sec |
| 484 GB/sec | cuda colors | 8704 | 2944 |
| 3584 | core clock | 1800MHz | 1830MHz |
| 1582MHz | price | 1100 | 1230 |
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as a result
It’s difficult to draw any conclusions about the RTX 3080 at the moment. Since it is a new card, it is very likely that it has not yet reached its full mining potential. It seems like a better investment than the previous model, but that’s because the 1080 and 2080 are currently too expensive.
We will continue to update you on this, and the RTX 3090 to benchmark will be released soon. Good one!disclaimer
: This is not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor. This is for educational purposes only. If you want to invest in cryptocurrency, do your own research and invest at your own risk. 1stMiningRig is not responsible for any decision you make. 1stMiningRig may accept donations or sponsorships in connection with the production of certain content. 1stMiningRig may receive compensation when affiliate/referral links are used.
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