Where GPU mining stands
Ethereum left in 2022
On 15 September 2022 Ethereum switched from mining to staking, and most of what graphics cards used to mine went with it. What is left for a GPU is a set of smaller coins.
The algorithms that still suit a GPU
Coins that want graphics cards and not purpose-built mining chips use algorithms designed to keep those chips out — KawPow on Ravencoin and Autolykos 2 on Ergo are two well-known ones. That is why an ordinary GeForce card can still take part.
Check the numbers first
Which coin pays best changes from week to week, and some coins have since been taken over by mining chips. Run the card you are considering through a live calculator such as WhatToMine before you order. We will not guess for you.
Your electricity is in the price
At home, power is the bill that decides whether mining pays. Here the monthly figure is for the whole machine running flat out, so there is no second bill and no meter to watch.
Any card we fit will run a mining program. These are the consumer GeForce cards, each one priced on its own and in the cheapest complete server that takes it. The workstation and data-centre cards are on the GPU page.
| Card | Memory | The card, per month | Whole server with it, per month | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTX 1070M | 8 GB GDDR5 | $53.39 | $124.32Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| GTX 1080 | 8 GB GDDR5X | $55.06 | $125.99Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| GTX 1070 | 8 GB GDDR5 | $64.29 | $135.22Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| GTX 1070 Ti | 8 GB GDDR5 | $75.29 | $146.22Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| GTX 1080 Ti | 11 GB GDDR5X | $79 | $149.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 2070 | 8 GB GDDR6 | $89 | $159.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 2070 Super | 8 GB GDDR6 | $99 | $172.47Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 2080 | 8 GB GDDR6 | $119 | $189.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 2080 Super | 8 GB GDDR6 | $129 | $199.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 3070 | 8 GB GDDR6 | $139 | $209.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 2080 Ti | 11 GB GDDR6 | $149 | $219.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 3070 Ti | 8 GB GDDR6X | $149 | $222.47Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 3080 | 10 GB GDDR6X | $159 | $229.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 4070 | 12 GB GDDR6X | $179 | $262.67Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 3080 Ti | 12 GB GDDR6X | $199 | $272.47Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 3090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | $239 | $309.93Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Configure → |
| RTX 5080 | 16 GB GDDR7 | $229 | $312.67Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 4090D | 24 GB GDDR6X | $299 | $372.47Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
| RTX 5090 | 32 GB GDDR7 | $399 | $472.47Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Configure → |
Owners list their GeForce and CMP machines on our marketplace. The owner sets the rent they are paid, and the monthly price on each card is the one Primcast sets. If a listing is held by our sister company, Server Room, you rent it on serverroom.net.
What happened to the CMP 170HX
NVIDIA’s mining-only card used to headline this page. A driver now unlocks it: the card goes from 8 GB of memory to 64 GB and its compute is no longer held back. That makes it far more useful for running AI models than for mining, so it has a page of its own. It still mines if you want it to.
Why put it in a data centre
Power, heat and noise
A card at full load for a month is the part of mining that domestic wiring, domestic cooling and the people you live with all object to. Here it is a rack, cooled for exactly that.
Network
Your server sits on a network built for low-latency streaming, and nothing on it is metered: no transfer allowance to exceed, no egress charge, and no overage line on the invoice at any port speed we sell.
The machine is yours
One tenant, root, and the card handed straight through to your own operating system — your driver, your miner. No hypervisor, no shared card, and the server’s own iLO or iDRAC console for when a driver takes the network down.
Somebody in the building
Support answers by telephone and live chat around the clock, and a failed card is replaced under an agreement that puts four hours on it from the moment you report it. The response tiers and the service credits are on the support page.
What we do and do not promise
We do not forecast returns
What a card earns depends on the coin, the algorithm, the difficulty and the exchange rate on the day, and none of those is ours to predict. You will not find a hash rate or a payback period on this page, because any figure we printed would be out of date before you read it.
We do not take a cut
You rent the machine at a monthly figure and keep everything it produces. There is no revenue share, no pool we route you through and no wallet of ours in the middle. If you want the opposite arrangement — hardware you already own, earning without you finding the tenants — that is the marketplace, not this page.
We do not run the miner
The machine arrives with a clean operating system and root. Which miner, which pool and which driver version are yours to choose and yours to keep pinned; nothing upgrades underneath you. Say so on the order if you would rather the GPU driver were installed before handover.
More than one card
Possible, and it is a build we quote rather than a box you tick — what fits depends on the chassis, the physical width of the card and the power budget. Ask, and the reply names the chassis, the count and the lead time.
Why Primcast?
Bare metal since 2004, on a monthly term with no contract and no price step at renewal. Mining has been an ordinary workload here and always has been, which in practice mostly means nobody is going to close the account over what the machine is doing.
Where to go next
The whole catalogue: what each card adds per month, the machine underneath it, and which platform gives it which PCIe generation.
The old mining card with its 64 GB switched on, sold for AI work and installed unlocked.
The marketplace is the opposite trade. You keep the hardware and list it; we verify it, put it in front of the demand and handle the billing, and you set the rent you are paid. It is where a rig that has stopped paying for itself at home can go.
Card, PayPal, ACH and bank wire all work, and so does cryptocurrency. The crypto payments page lists which coins are accepted and what clears fastest on a first order.