AMD will launch a cryptocurrency mining card that will use Navi 10 and Navi 12 GPUs
A device ID named 731E appeared in the Linux kernel patch in October 2020. This device is a graphics card with Navi 10 GPU but does not support DCN (Display Core Next) and VCN (Video Core Next Next), that is, it does not support video output.
This kind of graphics card without video output is generally used for accelerating calculations in large computer clusters, or for cryptocurrency mining. A graphics card with Navi 12 GPU appeared in the Linux patch on March 3, which also does not support video output.
NVIDIA launched a series of CMP GPU cards designed for cryptocurrency mining and cannot output images, we might still be wondering why AMD launched so many graphics computing cards exclusively for computer clusters, but now, we know that AMD will launch a cryptocurrency mining card that will use Navi 10 and Navi 12 GPUs similar to CMP.
One of the more interesting things is the Navi 12 GPU. This core has never been used in Radeon graphics cards sold on the market. It was only used in a Radeon Pro 5600M graphics card designed for Apple Mac products. It is the only Navi 1X GPU with HBM2 memory.
According to the leaked news, the mining card with Navi 12 GPU will be equipped with 2560 Stream Processors (40 Compute Units), 8GB HBM2 memory, and a bandwidth of 394GB/s.
Mining with Navi 10 core will also be equipped with Stream Processors (40 computing units), but the memory will be equipped with GDDR6 memory with a bandwidth of 448GB/s.
Sources said that AMD has been developing RX 5700XTB, RX 5700B, and RX 5500XTB graphics cards specifically for cryptocurrency mining since November last year, but it is not certain whether AMD will launch mining graphics cards under the Radeon brand.
Via: videocardz