AMD confirms that it will not limit graphics card mining
AMD, the American superpower semiconductor company, has confirmed that it will not limit the mining function of the graphics card. Previously, its competitor Nvidia announced that it would restrict the mining function of Ethereum on its newly released graphics card products (although the restriction was subsequently bypassed), and many people worried that AMD would follow Nvidia and also limit the mining function of graphics cards. It is now finally certain that AMD will not follow Nvidia’s lead and the company will not limit the mining capabilities of graphics cards.
AMD's product manager Nish Neelalojanan said in the Radeon RX Series 6700 XT conference call whether it will limit graphics card mining: "Simply put, no."
He said: "It's not just mining, we don't set limits on any workload... There are a few points to be clear though. First, RDNA is designed for gaming, and RDNA 2 is So. I mean, we have carefully chosen the Infinity Cache and smaller bus width to meet specific game hit rate goals. However, what mining needs is higher bandwidth and bus width, or at a higher The bandwidth and bus width can only be expanded, so from the architectural level (graphics card) mining itself is limited.”
RDNA 2 is really not the best option for miners. Nvidia's 24G GeForce series RTX 3090 has a computing power of 120MH/s. However, based on the Navi 21 chip, the computing power is only 58-64 MH/s, which can only be said to be barely usable.
However, with the advent of the global "chip shortage", for Ethereum miners, it is better to have a graphics card than no graphics card. Neelalojanan said: "We serve the gaming industry first, and now we have optimized everything about the game. Obviously, gamers will benefit from this, and to be honest, it is not ideal for mining loads. will find it interesting.
AMD's choice to do this may not have been voluntary, since the Linux drivers are all open source. Although the open-source program was well received by Linux developers and users alike, AMD also lost some of its voice, and while Nvidia believed its driver was airtight, it didn't take much time for Ethereum miners to decipher and circumvent mining restrictions. .
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References:https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-cryptocurrency-mining-limiter-ethereum/
