Cryptocurrency mining in South Africa is gaining popularity, with an increasing number of users earning the likes of Ethereum and ZCash.<\/p>\n
The most popular graphics cards among miners are AMD\u2019s Radeon RX cards and Nvidia GeForce GTX 10-series units, as these offer the best price-to-performance ratio.<\/p>\n
This has resulted in a global shortage of GPUs due to the increased demand from miners, forcing manufacturers to respond by creating cards designed specifically for crypto mining.<\/p>\n
Manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte, and Sapphire have designed new cards with a focus on power efficiency and mining performance, with enhanced cooler designs.<\/p>\n
MyBroadband spoke to South African retailers to determine whether these cards would be available in South Africa and when they will arrive.<\/p>\n
Wootware\u2019s Rory Magee said there was no confirmed local release date or pricing for the graphics cards in South Africa.<\/p>\n
However, manufacturers such as Asus are reportedly interested in bringing the mining-focused units to the country.<\/p>\n
Wootware said it will definitely sell the cards if they become available from suppliers.<\/p>\n
Raru said it was waiting for more information regarding the new cards, but has listed\u00a0Sapphire\u2019s Radeon RX 470 Mining Edition cards<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on its online store.<\/p>\n Gigabyte will reportedly not release its Nvidia mining graphics cards in South Africa and it is unclear whether any Nvidia mining graphics cards will launch locally.<\/p>\n Gigabyte\u2019s new Nvidia cards will currently only launch in Western Europe, China, and Russia.<\/p>\n Evetech said it did not have any information regarding the pricing or launch date of crypto mining cards in SA.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Cryptocurrency mining in South Africa is gaining popularity, with an increasing number of users earning the likes of Ethereum and ZCash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":102667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13160,1771,24479],"class_list":["post-118811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-bitcoin","tag-graphics-cards","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Buying a graphics card in South Africa is absolutely ridiculous right now<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"