What a Graphics Card Can Still Mine, and What It Cannot

Begin with what changed. Ethereum stopped rewarding proof-of-work mining in September 2022 when it moved to proof of stake, which removed the single workload that had made graphics-card mining mainstream. Bitcoin has belonged to purpose-built ASIC machines for well over a decade and no desktop competes there. What remains for a graphics card are smaller proof-of-work chains such as Ethereum Classic on Etchash, Ravencoin on KawPow and Ergo on Autolykos. Monero is frequently listed alongside these, but its algorithm is deliberately processor-based rather than graphics-based.

This page covers hardware and nothing else. Whether mining covers its own electricity depends on coin price, network difficulty and your tariff, none of which anyone can forecast, so nothing here makes any claim about what a machine might earn. The sensible test is whether you would still want the machine if you stopped mining tomorrow, because the same card renders, trains models, encodes video and plays games. Evetech supplies new components only, assembled and tested at its Centurion premises and delivered nationwide.