AMD will not limit the crypto mining efficiency of graphics cards

Nvidia previously limited the mining performance of RTX 3060 graphics cards based on various measures. The company hopes to reduce the situation of miners snapping up graphics cards at high prices in this way.

Unfortunately, Nvidia made a mistake to release the development driver that lifted the mining restrictions, which can directly restore the graphics card mining efficiency to full blood without loss.

AMD has not yet taken measures to limit the mining performance of the graphics card, so some users went to the AMD official forum to post to inquire whether there is a similar plan.

What’s interesting is that the user’s post inquiries have really received an official response, and the product manager of AMD has made it clear that it will not take any measures to limit mining performance.

The product manager said that how users use the graphics card is entirely up to the user, and the company will not prevent users from running any loads, including for mining.

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“The short answer is no,” Nish Neelalojanan, a product manager at AMD says regarding a potential mining limiter during a Radeon RX 6700 XT pre-briefing call. “We will not be blocking any workload, not just mining for that matter. That said, there are a couple of things. First of all, RDNA was designed from the ground up for gaming and RDNA 2 doubles up on this. And what I mean by this is, Infinity Cache and a smaller bus width were carefully chosen to hit a very specific gaming hit rate. However, mining specifically enjoys, or scales with, higher bandwidth and bus width so there are going to be limitations from an architectural level for mining itself.”

Of course, that said, but AMD still emphasizes that the company’s RDNA architecture is designed for games rather than mining, and RDNA2 is also based on this improvement.

This architecture can improve excellent bandwidth performance, low power consumption, and reduce latency. However, mining requires higher bandwidth and bus width, so there are architectural limitations.

Therefore, if miners use AMD’s graphics cards for crypto mining, it may not be very good. After all, NVIDIA graphics cards will be more efficient for mining at the same price.

For example, the RDNA2 architecture NAVI 21 high-end card has a maximum computing power of 64MH/S, while Nvidia’s RTX3090 24GB version has a computing power of 120MB/S.

Via: PCGamer