I received my 3060 two days ago, I paid $412 with tax at Amazon, purchased last week in a pre-sale.
Installing was no fun, it would not work on my Windows 64 1709 version, even after fully updating. I ended up formatting a new SSD with the latest windows.
NVIDIA does throttle the Ethereum hash rate. Dagerhashimoto mining starts at 47 and then it quickly drops down to the mid 20’s.
I managed to get about 26mH steady in Nicehash using PhoenixMiner.
Based on Nicehash prices today (which have dropped 40% from Monday), the card would make $2.12/ day.
On Nicehash Octopus I am mining at a steady hashrate of 44.3 (42.6 at Nicehash) with 125 watts (as reported by NBMiner). Yesterday that was bringing in $3.80, today about $3.20.
The first chart shows breakeven (ROI), not counting electricity cost or taxes. (Pink line is Ethereum today, the rest are Octopus).
Mining Ethereum at 26mH at $2.12 (today), breakeven is about 193 days (Pink line).
Mining Octopus:
$4.00/day, ROI is about 102 days (blue line)
$3.00/day gives ROI at about 140 days (grey line).
Either way, a 3060 at retail price gives a decent return, not stellar, but worth it. All depends on what this market is doing.
In other words
NICE FAIL NVIDIA!Update: Octopus mining fluctuating, Making $4.27/ day at the moment, about 96 days ROI...
Edit 2: Nicehash dashboard reporting $7.47/day (this jumps up and down a lot) - ROI just 56 days! (dreaming a little, it won't stay at this peak but hope they read this at NVIDIA!)