The AMD BC-160 Mining Video Card Is Available for Purchase on AliExpress

You can now buy a specialized video card for mining from AMD on Aliexpress, which is sold under the designation BC-160.

According to the description, the video card for Ethereum mining reaches up to 73 MH/s. It runs on Windows 10, but is also suitable for Linux.

If you mine cryptocurrency 24/7, this GPU will bring about 8.5 USD per day excluding electricity costs within the exchange rate of 1 ETH = 4,000 USD. The retail price on AliExpress is 2,060 USD. Thus, the payback period for this video card is 240 days (8 months). Theoretically, this time would be just enough before Ethereum switches to the PoS algorithm.

This GPU is based on a 7nm chip and has a turbine type of cooling. It comes with 8 GB of HBM2 memory. The power consumption of AMD BC-160 is 130W with a standard PCIe4.0 connection.

The closest delivery is currently possible between January 2 and January 7.