AMD Will Not Restrict Crypto Mining on Radeons
AMD's Nish Neelalojanan confirmed that Radeons will not have limitations that would slow down Ethereum mining. Company's production manager believes that the very architecture of the new cards makes them a poor proposition for crypto miners.
The situation in the PC components market is, to say the least, interesting, albeit for the wrong reasons. Suffice it to say that all the enthusiasm surrounding the limiting the potential of its chips to mine Ethereum (ETH). This solution was rejected by AMD, as announced by production manager Nish Neelalojanan in a statement for PC Gamer.
Does this mean consent to the use of Radeons by crypto miners? According to Neelalojanan, no. As he explains, the RDNA 2 architecture was developed "from the ground up" with video games and Infinity Cache technology in mind, so a smaller bus width was carefully chosen. As a result, the new AMD cards have limited performance when mining crypto already at the architecture level, as miners need as much bandwidth as possible for greatest efficiency.
At least, that's what Neelalojanan claims. Tests by hardware websites (e.g. we owe to the manufacturer itself).
Either way, Neelalojanan assured that gamers and not crypt ominers remain the main market for AMD. We can only hope that both companies will manage to deal with production problems. Unfortunately, reports suggest that this will not happen anytime soon.
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