Avalon Q
The largest device most people can run at home: 90 TH/s at 1674W and 18.6 J/TH, in a case quiet enough (45 dB) to keep indoors. At this scale solo mining is still a lottery, but the economics start resembling actual mining rather than a hobby.
What it costs, what it might win
Running costs across the site use this rate. The default is a typical household tariff — check your own bill for the real number.
The odds, honestly
At the current network difficulty of 1.262e+14, a Avalon Q is expected to find a block roughly once every 191 years. That is an average across infinite attempts, not a countdown — a block could come tomorrow, or never.
If you pooled instead
Point the same device at a normal mining pool and you would receive the statistical average steadily instead of gambling on it: about $89.00 a month, against $207.90 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 4525 sats mined costs $6.83 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.
Full specifications
- ASIC chip
- 90× Canaan A3 (5nm)
- Stock hashrate
- 90.00 TH/s
- Stock power
- 1.67 kW
- Efficiency
- 18.6 J/TH
- Power input
- AC mains 220V, integrated PSU
- PSU included
- Yes
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 2.4GHz, Ethernet
- Display
- Status LEDs
- Noise
- ~45 dB
- Dimensions
- 280 × 230 × 350 mm
- Weight
- 12 kg
- Form factor
- tower
- Firmware
- Canaan (app-managed)
- Open source
- No
- Solo mining
- Yes
- Pool mining
- Yes
- Built-in full node
- No
- Released
- 2024
The verdict
Best for: Prosumers with cheap power and somewhere to put 1.7kW of heat.
Strengths
- Best efficiency of any device listed, 18.6 J/TH
- 90 TH/s — roughly 75 Bitaxe Gammas
- Data-centre performance at living-room noise levels
Trade-offs
- 1674W needs a dedicated 220V circuit in most homes
- Around $3,000-4,000 a year in electricity at European rates
- Well past the point where pooled mining makes more sense than solo
About Canaan Avalon
One of the two large ASIC manufacturers. The Avalon Nano, Mini and Q lines are Canaan's consumer push: closed firmware and an app instead of a web UI, but proper industrial silicon, real warranties and usable waste heat.
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