Prepaid balance earned by an idle GPU · 400+ games and gift cards
Nintendo eShop, and the balance your graphics card earns
Your PC sits idle for hours every single day. Put those hours to work: the app runs AI jobs on your graphics card and your balance climbs while you sleep. Nintendo eShop cards have not reached the English catalog yet, so what the balance buys here is the prepaid credit that has — Steam gift cards at 5, 10 and 20 EUR — alongside more than 400 games and gift cards. Nothing you leave unspent expires.
- A 5 EUR Steam card: about two days on an RTX 5090
- The balance has no expiry date — it can wait for the shelf to widen
- Out of your own pocket: nothing
Three steps. That is the whole thing.
No catch, no subscription on our side, no small print. You rent out your graphics card for AI compute and get paid for it — during the hours you were not using the machine anyway.
Switch it on, forget it
Install the app, hit EARN, get on with your day. Setup takes about a minute.
The card works, the balance grows
Not gaming? Your GPU runs AI jobs. Gaming? It steps aside instantly. You get paid by the hour.
Spend it or bank it
Swap the balance for a prepaid code in the store, or leave it sitting. It carries no expiry date.
How many days does your card need?
A 5 EUR Steam card takes two days on an RTX 5090 and three on an RTX 4090; an RTX 4080 needs three and an older RTX 3090 six. The 20 EUR card takes seven days on a 5090, nine on a 4090, eleven on a 4080 and twenty-one on a 3090. Pick your exact model in the calculator and see the real number.
What your PC needs to earn
6.66 GUSD
RTX 5090 2 daysRTX 4090 3 daysEstimated at 8 idle hours a day.
Run it on your cardBalances are held in GUSD — an internal unit equal to 1 USD. How fast it adds up depends on your card, the hours it runs and current network demand.
What the balance buys today
Nintendo eShop cards have not reached the English catalog yet, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. What the catalog does stock is prepaid Steam credit in three denominations — 5, 10 and 20 EUR — plus more than 400 games and gift cards. The balance carries no expiry date, so it can also simply wait for the shelf to widen.
The code arrives right after you place the order and goes straight into the checkout field. Nothing else about the purchase changes — except that this time your graphics card paid for it, during hours the machine was doing nothing at all.
Nintendo eShop — how the credit actually works
Short and concrete: where you redeem a card, whether the funds expire, why the country setting matters and what changed with Switch 2. Taken from Nintendo materials and Nintendo support.
- Where to redeem
- At ec.nintendo.com/redeem, or on the console via Nintendo eShop and Add Funds
- Do the funds expire
- Money added to a Nintendo Account carries no expiry date and simply waits
- The country setting
- A card only redeems on a Nintendo Account set to the same country it was sold for
- One balance, two consoles
- The funds belong to the account, not the hardware, so they cover Switch and Switch 2 alike
- Switch 2
- Launched 5 June 2025; 23.68 million shipped by 30 June 2026, past the GameCube lifetime total
- Game-Key Cards
- By February 2026 more than 60% of announced boxed Switch 2 releases were key cards — the game itself still downloads from the eShop
- Virtual Game Cards
- Since the April 2025 update a digital game moves between consoles and lends to a family group for 14 days
- In this catalog
- The English GamerHash catalog carries no Nintendo product yet — Steam credit and 400+ other items instead
Source: Nintendo materials and Nintendo support (nintendo.com), Nintendo financial results and Switch 2 release round-ups.
Frequently asked questions
Two ways. In a browser, go to ec.nintendo.com/redeem, sign in to the Nintendo Account linked to your console and enter the code. On the console, open Nintendo eShop and choose Add Funds. Either way the amount lands on your account balance straight away.
Your card is idle anyway. Let it bank something.
Setup takes a minute. Leave the machine on and the balance climbs by itself — two days to the first code, and no expiry date on whatever you decide not to spend yet.
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