constellation@atheron:/calculator$
// Calculator
What would I earn?
And can it take part?
Two quick checks. The calculator uses the same rule and electricity prices as the ledger. The hardware check compares your machine with the minimum specs.
// Points calculator
Your points, a month
An estimate from the same rule and electricity prices the ledger uses.
- Power used
- 45 kWh a month
- Points
- 1,175 points a month
- What they buy
- About 0.3 months of Glacier
Worth C$11.75 of plan credit.
- Glacier: 0.3 months
- Arctic: 0.1 months
- Aurora: 0 months
Up to 20% more for 95% uptime, 5% at a 30-day streak, 5% on Beta builds, 10% for a strong reputation and 10% on AI-class cards, all inside the same cap.
Average household electricity in your country: C$0.1741 per kWh (published, converted from US dollars at 1.4154).
Prices: GlobalPetrolPrices.com, household electricity prices (Q3 2026 update), read on 2026-10-13. Points start once your identity is verified to Core. Real use depends on the jobs; points come from our benchmark for your device's class, not its own meter.
// Hardware check
Can my machine take part?
Answer a few questions about your machine. Nothing you choose leaves this page.
Ready for graphics and processor jobs
Your machine meets the minimum for every kind of job.
- Keep your drivers current: NVIDIA 535 or newer, AMD Adrenalin 23 or newer.
The minimum specs
Graphics
6 GB of graphics memory with Vulkan 1.2, DirectX 12 or Metal 3: NVIDIA GTX 1660 or RTX 2060 and newer, AMD RX 6600 and newer, Intel Arc A580 and newer, or Apple M1 with 16 GB. 8 GB or more is recommended.
Processor
x86-64 with AVX2, 4 cores and 8 threads (Intel 8th generation, Ryzen 2000 and newer), Apple M1 or newer, or 64-bit ARM on Linux.
Memory and disk
8 GB of memory, 16 GB recommended, and 10 GB of free disk space.
Operating system
64-bit Windows 10 22H2 or newer, macOS 13 or newer, or Linux with glibc 2.35 or newer, such as Ubuntu 22.04 or Fedora 39.