Cryptominers pay careful attention to the amount of power flowing through to a GPU and regulate it to achieve an efficiency balance where their profits can be maximized. Sure, you can run an RTX 3090 at full throttle for a year mining Ether, but that isn’t actually the most efficient sweet spot for the card. The other major issue to consider in the profitability calculus is the amount of energy used. Given the performance claims made by Apple, and assuming they hold up in our own testing, then we can’t say that the new MacBook Pro 14-inch or MacBook Pro 16-inch won’t see some pretty good hash rates, given the 16-core and 32-core GPUs in the M1 Pro and M1 Max, respectively. MacBook Pro devices have always been plenty powerful, but nothing on the scale of the best graphics cards like the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090, currently the reigning champions of Ether mining.īut that’s not the entire story when it comes to cryptomining, and at the moment, we don’t know what the hash rate for either the M1 Pro chip or M1 Max chip might be. If anyone said a couple of years ago that we’d be seriously having a conversation about the potential for new MacBook Pro models being impressed into the crypto mines to burn away 24 hours a day, seven days a week to create a speculative digital asset, we’d have laughed you out of the room. (Image credit: Apple) Why Cryptominers might use a new MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021) to mine Ether
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