AMD will not programmatically restrict GPU mining for ETH – Bits Media

AMD has no plans to limit ETH mining on its graphics cards, however, the graphics card architecture will be optimized for gamers, which will make mining less efficient.

According to PC Gamer posting citing AMD Product Manager Nish Nilalojanan (Nish Neelalojanan), The company does not plan to limit ETH mining on its video cards. Nilalodzhanan reported this during a preliminary briefing on the Radeon RX video card 6700 XT.

“A short answer – No. We will not block any workload on our video cards, Not only mining ", – Said NISH NILALOLODZHANAN.

Last month, the main competitor AMD, NVIDIA company, reported, which programmatically limits the hashrate of video cards RTX 3060 and will launch CMP chips for miners. However, later it became known, that Nvidia released
Driver for developers without a restriction of the RTX hashrate 3060 for Ethereum miners.

According to Nilalojanan, AMD will not even try to stand in the way of cryptocurrency miners. However, Nilalojanan explained, that AMD optimizes its chips primarily for gamers.

"Obviously, that gamers will gain great benefit from this, And these video cards will not be the perfect option for mining ", – He said. “AMD RDNA GPU architecture is designed from scratch for games. RDNA 2 improves these indicators by half. By this I mean infinity cache, and the smaller tire width was carefully selected to achieve specific indicators for video games ".

He explained, that for mining, high throughput is required, Therefore, from an architectural point of view, there will still be some restrictions. In other words, Although the new AMD video cards can be used for mining, This is not the best option.

Earlier this month, information appeared, that the navi video card 12, which was represented by AMD exclusively for MacBook Pro from Apple, can be re -profiled for mining ETH. There will be no video outputs in the new version of the card - playing on such a card will not work.