Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
by ben_w on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:41PM
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Lot of gamers, and the displays add a few more watts each to the total.
Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.
Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.
Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?
So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.
Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.
Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.
Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.
Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?
So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.
Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, you're right, it's not even close.