Guide

How to mine Pearl (PRL) on your GPU

Q: Is Pearl profitable on one card?

On the cards we have measured Pearl usually gives the highest estimate of Pasiv's GPU coins, but that still means coffee money rather than rent money. Pasiv shows a live estimate before you start. Earnings move with price, difficulty and electricity cost and can be zero.

Q: Does Pasiv take a cut of my Pearl?

Yes, on the USDT route, the default since Pasiv 0.5.0: 4% of mining time, taken only while mining, logged in the app and a compile-time constant in its open-source core. On the direct route Pearl carries no Pasiv fee. The other deductions are third-party: unMineable's 0.75% pool fee (it pays Pasiv a 0.25% referral out of that fee, not out of your earnings). The GPU engine itself takes no fee.

Q: What's the easiest Pearl miner for Windows?

A one-click app is easiest for most people. Pasiv runs on Windows and Linux: install it, connect a wallet or paste a USDT address, and press start. It runs Pasiv's own signed build of an open-source Pearl engine under the hood and the pool pays your own address in USDT. Command-line users can run SRBMiner-Multi or BzMiner on their own.

Q: How much does an RTX 3060 make mining Pearl?

Pasiv hasn't measured an RTX 3060, so it doesn't publish a figure for it. On the cards it has measured, an RTX 4060 does about 57 TH/s and an RTX 4070 SUPER about 135 TH/s; current gross earnings for both are at pasiv.network/gpu-mining-profitability, and the app shows your own card's live estimate before you start.

Q: Is mining Pearl worth it in 2026?

It depends on your card and your power price. Pasiv publishes gross, measured figures for the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 SUPER, recomputed live at pasiv.network/gpu-mining-profitability; electricity comes out of that. Pearl is a young coin with a volatile price, so today's figure is not a promise. Pasiv shows the live estimate before you start and you can stop any time.

Updated 24 October 2026 · pearlhash · Windows & Linux · NVIDIA 3 GB+ · AMD Radeon paused

Pearl is the GPU coin with the lowest bar to entry in Pasiv: its proof-of-work, pearlhash, fits on cards with as little as 3 GB of memory — half what most GPU coins demand. If you have an older or smaller NVIDIA card sitting idle, this is usually the one it can actually mine. Since Pasiv 0.5.0 it is what the GPU mines by default, on unMineable's pool, which converts it to USDT and pays your own address once a day from 1.5 USDT — on a GPU the first payout usually lands within a day or two.

Pasiv's fee on Pearl is 4% of mining time, taken only while you are mining and shown in the app's fee ledger. unMineable's pool fee is 0.75% (1%, lowered by Pasiv's referral code); unMineable pays Pasiv a 0.25% referral out of its own fee, not out of your earnings. The GPU engine is Pasiv's own build with its developer fee switched off, so nothing on the Pearl lane goes to a third party. Installs on the direct route (from before 0.5.0, paying a PRL address directly) pay no Pasiv fee on Pearl.

What Pearl pays today, on cards we measured: an RTX 4060 grosses ≈ $1.84/day (≈ $55/month) and an RTX 4070 SUPER ≈ $4.35/day (≈ $130/month). Our own hashrate, live network numbers, gross — before electricity, and the price moves both ways. Install Pasiv →

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Hardware-verified before we shipped it: on our own test rig an RTX 4070 SUPER connected, took jobs, and landed 11 accepted shares with none rejected in the first 191 seconds — 2460 MHz, 219 W, 99% GPU utilisation — with the pool's own address stats confirming the shares server-side. We don't list coins we haven't mined ourselves. AMD Radeon is paused for exactly that reason: Pasiv's GPU engine is CUDA-only, and we haven't measured an AMD card on it yet.

Three steps

Download Pasiv from the install page (free; Windows and Linux for GPU mining) and open it.
Tell Pasiv where to pay you. Connect a wallet (it only reads the address, nothing is signed) or paste a USDT address from your exchange, on BNB Smart Chain or TRON; Pasiv checks the network before mining starts. Pasiv never asks for private keys or seed phrases. Installs on the direct route paste a PRL address (it starts with prl1) instead — get that wallet only from the official Pearl Research Labs releases; see the warning below.
Press the pearl. Your card connects to the pool and starts submitting pearlhash shares; the pool pays your address in USDT once a day, from 1.5 USDT. Stop any time — the GPU is yours again instantly.

On the direct route, get the Pearl wallet from the source, and nowhere else. Pearl is a young chain, and searching for a “Pearl wallet” surfaces look-alike sites that exist to take your coins. The only wallet Pasiv links is the project's own signed release on GitHub. If a download didn't come from there, don't run it — and no wallet, ever, needs your seed phrase typed into a website.

The facts

Algorithm	pearlhash — a GPU proof-of-work, so consumer NVIDIA cards do the work rather than ASICs
Engine	Pasiv's own build of CPPminer (open source, MIT), built from a pinned source commit and signed by Pasiv, with its developer fee switched off — nothing on the Pearl lane goes to a third party. Until 0.6.11 this was SRBMiner-Multi, whose developer kept a 2% pearlhash dev fee
Hardware	Windows or Linux with an NVIDIA card (Turing or newer) and 3 GB+ of VRAM — the lowest memory floor of any Pasiv GPU coin. Cards below it are refused up front rather than failing mid-mine. AMD Radeon is paused for now: the engine is CUDA-only. Not available on macOS
Pool	unMineable (pearlpow.unmineable.com), which converts to USDT; its fee is 0.75%. On the direct route: LuckyPool (pearl-eu2.luckypool.io) — one of the three pools the mining engine's own reference configuration ships with, verified live on our hardware; it takes its own pool fee
Payout	USDT to your own address (BNB Smart Chain or TRON), once a day from 1.5 USDT; on the direct route, PRL to your PRL address once the pool's minimum is reached. Pasiv is non-custodial and never touches your funds
Cost	Pasiv is free; its 4% time-sliced fee applies to Pearl on the USDT route, only while mining (none on the direct route) (how it works)

Why Pearl is the GPU coin: on the same RTX 4060 it out-earned the classic GPU coins by more than tenfold in our measurements. What each card earns →

Frequently asked questions

Will Pearl run on my older graphics card?

Often, yes. Pearl needs just 3 GB of video memory, where most GPU coins want 6 GB, so cards those refuse will frequently mine Pearl. The card still has to be NVIDIA and Turing generation or newer; AMD Radeon is paused until an AMD card has been measured on Pasiv's engine. Pasiv checks your hardware up front and simply won't offer a coin your card can't run — no dead toggles.

Is Pearl profitable on one card?

On the cards we've measured, Pearl usually gives the highest estimate of Pasiv's GPU coins — but “highest of the three” still means coffee money, not rent money, and the app shows you its live estimate before you start so you never have to take our word for it. Earnings move with price, difficulty and your electricity, and can be zero. A younger chain also carries more price risk than an established one.

Do I have to choose a coin?

No. Pasiv puts each part of your machine on the one coin it earns most on: the GPU mines Pearl, the CPU mines Monero, both at the same time, and the app shows each lane's live estimate. There is nothing to rank and nothing to switch.

Can I mine Pearl on a Mac?

No. Pearl's engine runs on CUDA, which has no macOS build, and it targets NVIDIA hardware — so Pearl is Windows and Linux only. On Apple Silicon, Pasiv mines Monero on the CPU instead.

Does Pasiv take a cut of my Pearl?

Yes, on the USDT route (the default since Pasiv 0.5.0): 4% of mining time, taken only while you are mining, logged in the app, and a compile-time constant you can read in the open core. On the direct route, Pearl carries no Pasiv fee. The other deductions are third-party and listed above: unMineable's 0.75% pool fee (it pays Pasiv a 0.25% referral out of that fee, not out of your earnings). The GPU engine itself takes no fee.

What's the easiest Pearl miner for Windows?

For most people, a one-click app rather than a command-line miner. Pasiv runs on Windows (and Linux): install it, connect a wallet or paste a USDT address, and press start. Under the hood it runs Pasiv's own signed build of an open-source Pearl engine, and the pool pays your own address in USDT. If you are comfortable with a terminal, SRBMiner-Multi or BzMiner on their own work too.

How much does an RTX 3060 make mining Pearl?

We haven't measured an RTX 3060 ourselves, so we don't publish a figure for it — see the RTX 3060 page. For scale, on the cards we have run, an RTX 4060 (about 57 TH/s) grosses ≈ $1.84/day and an RTX 4070 SUPER (about 135 TH/s) ≈ $4.35/day at today's price. Pasiv shows your own card's live estimate before you start.

Is mining Pearl worth it in 2026?

It depends on your card and what you pay for power. Gross, on cards we measured, Pearl currently pays ≈ $1.84/day on an RTX 4060 and ≈ $4.35/day on an RTX 4070 SUPER. Your electricity comes out of that, and we won't guess your rate. Pearl is a young coin and its price has moved sharply, in both directions, so today's figure is not a promise. If your PC is on anyway and idle, it's cheap to try: Pasiv shows the live number before you commit, and you can stop any time.

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