Quote from: adaseb on Today at 05:57:17 AM

Wasn't something similar like this done with the Xbox (or Xbox 2 or whatever its called) to mine Litecoin back in 2013.2014? If I recall the GPU inside the Xbox was the Tahiti chip Radeon 7950. That GPU was more or less the 7970/280X with a slightly lower core clock however it was the most efficient GPU to mine LTC at the time. And late 2013 GPUS were sold out everywhere so people decided to try and mine with the Xbox instead.

I have a feeling that if this is possible there will be a shortage of Xbox's everywhere due to GPU mining. So far all GPUs are sold out. Now people are buying gaming desktops and gaming laptops with GPUs inside to mine and if its possible to mine on a console then miners will start buying Xbox's and Playstations next. Crazy times...

I remember something like this as well but actually the xbox one/ one s are very shitty hardware. They were not even that good when they came out, less than a mid range PC actually in 2013.

Xbox one /s has the same GPU, the s is very slightly OC'd like 7%. Its closest to something like a Radeon 7790 (or even 7750) and only has GDDR3 memory so isnt very fast. It had on die EDRAM for some trickery the game devs could do to code for the hardware and pull off impressive visuals.

Even the PS4 only had a Radeon 7850.

But now though, we have powerful consoles with RDNA 2 chips that actually could trade blows with mid range cards like RTX 2060 Super.