AMD will not obstruct any workload, including crypto mining
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TheDeeGee
Atleast they're honest.
But it shows AMD doesn't care about gamers either.
kapu
Better than pretending that they care just like nvidia did with silly move to block ETH.
alanm
Ultimately no difference between AMDs and Nvidia end-result actions.
DannyD
These companies ought to remember gamers made them what they are.
fantaskarsef
It's easy to say they don't limit workloads when their cards are obviously not that popular to mine with in the beginning... sorry but that doesn't earn any sympathy points with me personally. Not that Nvidia did either, but you know the tune, along the lines of fellow gurus posting above.
Ssateneth
you say that as if amd is knowingly sabotaging mining right off the bat. you need to keep in mind current gpu mining scales with memory bandwidth. 5700xt, 6800, 6800xt, 6900xt, 3060ti, 3070 are all 256-bit GDDR6 with 14-16 GT/s speed chips. they'll all cap out pretty close to the same speed given a certain memory bandwidth. radeon vii is a mining monster because of 4 stacks of HBM2. 3080/3090 have a wider bus with an increased bus speed. big navi just sucks in comparison because bog standard memory arrangement. 128MB IF cache does nothing because the mining data set doesn't fit in it.
schmidtbag
Of course, you can't satisfy everyone. When Nvidia did it, everyone was like "hurr durr but that means fewer GPUs for gamers!". When AMD does it, everyone whines "they don't even pretend to care!"
There's no winning with any of you.
Seeing as AMD is worse at making drivers than Nvidia, anything they'd do to artificially cripple performance would just be undone.
Not like any of it matters, seeing as the price point for these GPUs isn't great anyway.
rl66
NVidia lying limit some crypto and release "by error" a driver that bypass this limit... AMD only said the true.
Anyway the problem isn't the maker of GPU, the problem is the pseudo-trader that want to make money, and the sheep that minning...
In the end it will end like last time: luxury car abandonned in Dubai, GPU card sold at 1/4 of what they cost in second hand, and around 80% of those that have lost money instead or gaining...
Of course this served the 20% to gain some more (they are not pseudo lol).
0blivious
GPU makers to gamers: "Sucks to be you."
tsunami231
why would they? they are releasing mining cards too and even if they did it would be hacked either way gamers looking for card lose cause miner will still be bot buying all the cards up.
20+ years ago if said people could use there GPU to Mine Digital currency, at expense if HUGE AMOUNT of POWER usage we would been laughed at.
The extra stress put on our Power inferstructions alone should be enough goverments to do somthing about but, goverments are using this mining too.
Icanium
If only AMD and nVidia could jack up their prices and sell cards for these prices but offered cash rebates with a 2 per household limit. The rebate would be the difference between jacked price and original MSRP. If it were legal they could get rich off of miners and maybe save cards for gaming customers.
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Radeon-6800-Architecture-16G/dp/B08RJ6YBH5/ref=pd_cart_vw_crc_1_1/135-8687922-8462927?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B08RJ6YBH5&pd_rd_r=a5a84fd0-3f63-436e-9bb7-d1dca013972b&pd_rd_w=Js2KO&pd_rd_wg=cAP7R&pf_rd_p=01004c92-8f40-4f1a-bee8-08cb36dccac2&pf_rd_r=WHKAQ5NBH5XE7KQCEBY4&psc=1&refRID=WHKAQ5NBH5XE7KQCEBY4
DannyD
That's a 6800xt tho, two thousand dollars seems ok.
H83
True but at the same time they shouldn´t forget the customers who have been supporting them by buying their products all this years...
Because the same customers may get fed up by this and stop buying their hardware and then they will have to rely on miners that only buy their stuff on exceptional occasions...
Icanium
Concept is not card specific. Restricting hash rates and mining based card has not helped availability. Would price increase and limited household # rebates slow down mining buys or no price is to high of a price for miners? Two thousand dollar cards are available. Would they still be available? Could miners also hack household limit on rebate?
icedman
At least AMD is upfront about it and not trying the same bs pr that Nvidia tried its all business to them which sucks for us gamers.
Just need this heavily modded gtx 1080 to last till this mining dies a bit.
TheDeeGee
You could say Nvidia tried, but in the end trolled us all.
ManofGod
Orly? And how is that, exactly? They have no issue with producing PS5 and XBox Series consoles and they are for gamer's. Also, there is nothing that can be done to prevent miners and scalpers from doing what they are going to do, we will just have to wait patiently.
KissSh0t
So AMD is not interested in selling medium range video cards anymore.. gotcha..
The only video card I have available to me that is close to the price bracket of $300 is the very low end RX 550..... which is hilarious considering it's 2021.
Next up is the RX 580 which is $599... which I'm going to write again... IS HILARIOUS BECAUSE IT'S 2021..............................................
The next price bracket is where the 6700 XT currently sits which is $800 to $1400..
Medium range video cards have basically been pushed out of the market.... they don't exist.
ManofGod
Show me where this is AMD's fault? Or for that matter, Nvidia's fault?
KissSh0t
For the time being I will blame you.
