Sapphire's AMD RX 470 for Ethereum and Zcash cryptocurrency mining goes on sale in the UK, as the shortage of AMD graphics cards for gaming continues

During the last we have seen how the second cryptocurrency fever has arrived, with the rise of a multitude of currencies such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, Zcash, Monero the world market has been revolutionized. For weeks now you cannot buy an AMD RX 470/570/480/580 at a decent price. While before this started you could get a RX 480 for around 220 euros, today it is difficult to get it and if you do it will not be for less than 450 euros.

As a solution to this, NVIDIA and AMD have been developing versions of their specialized GPUs for cryptocurrency mining for some time, some of the most interesting changes made are the elimination of video outputs or the decrease in consumption. A week ago the North American media began to filter images of the first versions that would follow these canons.

In Reddit UK we have seen how a user talked about this new Sapphire model for the RX 470, which is very similar in its appearance with respect to the standard model that we could buy before in any hardware store, only it does not have the outputs video at the rear. It also stands out that it achieves a mining power of between 23-26 MH / s with an electrical consumption of 122W, somewhat lower than its previous version.

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As we can see there are more GPUs listed than the 470GB RX 4 for £ 249,99, we also have the option to buy the 8GB model or the RX 480 and RX 560 models. The most reasonable prices are those of the 470 models. We also note that there are 650W PSU packs for sale to place and run parallel to power the same mining rig as the 1200W PSUs are decimated.