Asrock mining device powered by playstation with 12 cores at a price of 14800 dollars

A cryptomining server with APUs that appear to be based on the PlayStation 5 processor has been discovered. The rig, which was created by Asrock and AMD and has twelve AMD BC-250 cards and a 610 MH/s rate, comes at a hefty price tag of $14,800.

The mining server, according to Twitter leaker Komachi, is made up of malfunctioning PlayStation 5 Ariel/Oberon SoCs. This isn't the first time AMD has repurposed PS5 technology; it's probably certainly a part of AMD's 4700S (and 4800S) Desktop Kit, a compact motherboard that uses the PS5 processor that was rejected.

The Asrock Mining Rig Barebone 610 Mhs 12x AMD BC-250 is available in Slovenia for €13,499 (about $14,800). Twelve AMD BC-250 mining APUs, five 80mm fans, 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, and two 1200W power supply make up this system.

According to Tom's Hardware, a single AMD BC-250 can handle little over 50 MH/s, which corresponds to Asrock's claim of 610 MH/s. The ROI (return on investment) for each card, assuming each APU costs $999, is roughly 440 to 530 days, according to mining profitability blogs, writes VideoCardz, albeit it varies on factors like the fluctuating price of Ethereum and electricity prices in a user's region.

The RTX 3090 and the newly released Ti variant are the only Nvidia cards that are not limited by the LHR restriction. It can mine Ethereum at 120 MH/s while requiring 300W in the case of the former. To get to the same level as AMD's mining server, you'd need five of these for roughly $11,000, but you'd also need a lot of other parts.