We put one other budget-oriented smartphone to the check of crypto mining VerusCoin (VRSC) with it, this time round it’s the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G. After the latest disappointment that the Samsung Galaxy A13 5G turned out to be with a 32-bit OS and unable for use for mining we have been a bit involved concerning the A14 5G, however nonetheless determined to present it a go and danger it after seeing a superb worth deal on the Whole by Verizon Samsung Galaxy A14 5G, 64GB, Black – Pay as you go Smartphone (Locked) over at Amazon, was short-term all the way down to $59 USD, although it appears to be again at $79.99 USD now. Specification sensible the A14 5G did appear attention-grabbing and the good worth drop did get us to tug the set off, however the query at hand is was it capable of ship. Learn under to search out out what you’ll be able to count on from the Galaxy A14 5G in the event you plan on utilizing it for mining VRSC…

The Samsung Galaxy A14 5G appeared a bit cumbersome after we obtained it and opened it up, it’s a massive smartphone with a 6.6-inch show, a tool introduced earlier this 12 months. It does appear to have two variations although, one with Mediatek Dimensity 700 (the one we obtained) and one other with Exynos 1330 chipset that may most likely do a bit higher than what we obtained as outcomes. The Mediatek Dimensity 700 (7 nm) chipset has 8 ARM CPU cores (2x 2.2 GHz Cortex-A76 and 6x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) and Android 13 and the excellent news right here is that not like on the A13 5G mannequin right here we do have a 64-bit OS making it appropriate for crypto mining. At the very least that’s excellent news, however the outcomes are usually not precisely as what we’ve anticipated to see from the system sadly.

And whereas the Galaxy A14 5G does work for crypto mining and gives respectable hashrate mining VerusCoin it’s most likely not the only option worth sensible and efficiency sensible on the market for positive. Initially it peaked with larger hashrate, however then stabilized at simply round 3.8 MH/s and we had it operating for fairly a while simply to make sure due to the preliminary fluctuating hashrate. That efficiency is paired with round 3.8 Watts of energy utilization measured on the wall, so slower and fewer environment friendly than different gadgets we’ve examined to not point out costlier as properly, so not probably the most appropriate alternative. We sort of anticipated to see higher efficiency out of it, perhaps the model with higher specs that makes use of the Exynos chipset might be extra attention-grabbing for crypto mining, although it’s costlier and tougher to search out.