Electricity usage by GPU for mining
My home electricity usage went down by about 20% when I turned off my 24/7 Norton crypto mining, lol.
Electric rates are so high here it almost makes no sense to mine ETH.
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Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 14-Mar-2022 | 8:22AM · Permalink
20% less on electricity seems significantly high, how did you figure it was Norton Crypto and your computer generating that much cost?
Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 17-Mar-2022 | 9:49AM · Permalink
This is the reason I made sure mining was turned off for good. You spend more on electricity than you get from whatever currency you manage to generate, most of the time.
Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 17-Mar-2022 | 9:59AM · Permalink
That's easy. (Watts used while mining, - watts used while not mining) x hours x 1000 = kilowatt hours. There are any number of devices that tell you how many watts a device is pulling from the outlet.
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Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 17-Mar-2022 | 2:55PM · Permalink
Certainly I understand how to figure it out, what I was more curious was how would it be possible that 20% of his cost the machine while mining. Do you turn the machine off when not mining? Also did you figure the value of ETH going up or down as well?
I won't argue that the number is not 20% but that seems significant to me and would be interested in knowing what was involved in calculating it.
Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 22-Mar-2022 | 5:14AM · Edited: 22-Mar-2022 | 5:15AM · Permalink
The local electric company gives me updates on electricity usage increase or decrease every week. It was down 19% the week I turned off Norton Crypto. My PC motherboard has an app that shows dynamic GPU power usage. With Norton Crypto running, the RTX 2060 GPU uses about 1.3kW; otherwise, the GPU uses only about 30W. That reduction in over 1kWh every hour would be around 20% total electricity usage here I'd say. Too expensive to mine crypto in California.
Re: Electricity usage by GPU for mining
Posted: 22-Mar-2022 | 10:36PM · Permalink
the RTX 2060 GPU uses about 1.3kW; otherwise, the GPU uses only about 30W. That reduction in over 1kWh every hour would be around 20% total electricity usage here I'd say.
I mistook the RPM for Watts. I meant to say "the RTX 2060 GPU uses about 130+W (when close to 100% usage); otherwise, the GPU uses only about 30W. That reduction in over 100Wh every hour would be around 20% total electricity usage here".
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