Honest answer
Is mining Pearl (PRL) worth it in 2026?
Updated 8 November 2026 · gross figures, measured on our own cards · PRL · pearlhash
Short version: on a modern NVIDIA card you already own, Pearl is the best thing that card can mine right now — and it is still a few dollars a day, not an income. Pearl is a GPU coin whose proof-of-work is AI-style matrix maths, so cards that are good at AI workloads are good at Pearl. Below is what the cards we run ourselves actually produce, so you can decide before installing anything.
Every figure on this page is gross — at today's price and network difficulty, before pool fees and before your electricity. We publish gross only, deliberately: only you know your tariff. The dollar figures are refreshed from live data every morning; the hashrates are measured on our own rigs, not copied from a spec sheet.
What a GPU actually earns on Pearl
| Card | Measured hashrate | ≈ gross / day | ≈ gross / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 4060 | ≈ 57 TH/s | ≈ $0.91 | ≈ $27 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER | ≈ 135 TH/s | ≈ $2.16 | ≈ $65 |
Only the cards we have run ourselves carry a figure. For every other RTX card from the 2060 to the 5090 there is a per-card page that says plainly when it is not yet measured, rather than guessing.
Pearl's earnings move with the coin's price and with how much hashrate joins the network — and a new coin attracts hashrate fast. Expect the per-card figure to drift down over time as difficulty rises, and treat any number you see (including these) as today's number, not a forecast.
Which cards can mine it
- NVIDIA Turing or newer — any RTX card, or a GTX 16-series — with 3 GB of VRAM or more. The low memory requirement means older and smaller cards often qualify.
- AMD Radeon: some third-party miners list RX 6000 support. Pasiv has paused AMD until an AMD card has been measured on its engine, so we cannot give you a figure we would stand behind.
- Apple Silicon Macs: no. Macs mine Monero on the CPU instead — see Apple Silicon mining.
When it is worth it
1. The card is already in a PC that is on anyway. A gaming PC that sits idle most of the day turns hours you were not using into a few dollars a day. The honest question is not "does Pearl pay" but "does it pay more than the extra power the card draws on your tariff".
2. You want to try it without committing. You do not need to buy hardware, rent GPUs or learn a command line to find out. Renting a cloud GPU to mine Pearl is a poor deal — mining only makes sense on a card you already own.
3. You want to be paid in something you can spend. Through unMineable's pool, Pearl mining can pay out in USDT, so a modest daily figure becomes a stablecoin balance in your own wallet rather than a new coin you have to find a market for.
When it is not
If you would be buying a card to do this, renting one, running a laptop GPU on battery, or hoping to fund anything — no. A new coin's early earnings are the high-water mark, not the floor. We build a miner and we would still tell you not to buy hardware for it.
The easiest way to check, on Windows or Linux
Pasiv is a free desktop app that mines Pearl on your NVIDIA card (and Monero on the CPU at the same time) behind one Start button: no command line, no pool configuration, no account. It shows your card's real measured hashrate and a live gross estimate within a minute. The pool pays your own address directly — Pasiv is non-custodial and never holds your coins — in USDT once a day from 1.5 USDT, so on a mid-range card the first payout usually lands within a day or two. Pasiv's fee is 4% of active mining time, published and checkable.
Start it, read the number, and stop it if the number is not worth it. That is the whole test. Step-by-step: how to mine Pearl.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an RTX 3060 make mining Pearl?
We have not measured a 3060 ourselves, so we will not quote one. Our measured cards are the RTX 4060 (≈ 57 TH/s) and RTX 4070 SUPER (≈ 135 TH/s); scale from those with care, and see the RTX 3060 page, which will carry a figure once one has run on our rigs. The quickest real answer is to run Pasiv on the card for a minute and read the measured hashrate.
What is the easiest Pearl miner for Windows?
Pasiv: install the signed Windows app, connect a wallet or paste a USDT address, press Start. It runs Pasiv's own signed Pearl engine, so there is no antivirus exclusion to add and no UAC prompt. Command-line miners work too, if you are comfortable writing a pool and wallet string.
Do I need a Pearl wallet?
No. By default the pool converts and pays USDT to an address you already have, for example on an exchange (BNB Smart Chain or TRON). If you would rather hold PRL itself, Pasiv's "Advanced: native coins" option pays a Pearl address directly.
Does Pasiv take a cut?
4% of mining time, taken as time-sliced mining and only while actively mining; paused or idle costs nothing. It is logged in the app beside the published fee address. The pool's own fee is separate: unMineable's 0.75%.
Non-custodial · no account · stop any time