In cursory: It's no secret that crypto miners have played a big part in the graphics card shortage. At present, it appears that a new cryptocurrency mined using CPUs could take a like outcome on processors, especially those from AMD with large L3 caches.

Bitcoin Press reports that Raptoreum (RTM), which launched before this twelvemonth following three years in testnet, could potentially worsen shortages of AMD CPUs with massive L3 caches, such as Ryzen, Threadripper, and Epyc processors.

Proof-of-piece of work (Prisoner of war) money Raptoreum is based on the GhostRider mining algorithm to keep the Raptoreum blockchain network clean from ASICs. Combining modified Cryptonite and x16r algorithms, GhostRider utilizes the L3 cache for mining, significant miners are scrambling to catch AMD CPUs such every bit the Ryzen 9 3000/5000 serial (up to 64MB of L3), Threadripper (up to 128MB), and EPYC (up to 256MB).

Profitability tables evidence that the AMD Ryzen 9 3900 can bring 4600 H/south in Raptoreum without optimizations, while the Ryzen nine 5950X can reach upward to 6800 H/south, though the latter chip's higher price needs to exist taken into account when looking at profitability. For comparison, Intel'southward new Core i9-12900K with its 30MB of cache offers 3700 H/south.

This Raptoreum calculator shows that using a Ryzen 9 3900X can net users 101 Raptoreum per day. With an free energy cost of $0.12, that works out at an average profit of $2.98 per day. Based on the CPU's $469 Amazon price, miners will be in turn a profit by around 157 days. As with all crypto, the price of Raptoreum does fluctuate wildly, then these figures can alter.

Some people are already snapping upward Ryzen CPUs in huge quantities to create Raptoreum mining farms such as the ane above that was published by El Chapuzas Informatico (via VideoCardz). It uses 28 ASUS Prime X570P motherboards and 28 Ryzen nine CPUs.

With the run-up to the holidays and the bit crisis, some CPUs are in short supply. Moreover, AMD recently reduced the cost of sure Ryzen 5000-series processors as a response to Alder Lake, making team ruby's chips even more appealing to Raptoreum miners.

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