AMD will not have any special drivers with a decrease in performance when mining cryptocurrency, as Nvidia did.
Humanity entered 2021 with a significantly increased Bitcoin exchange rate and a shortage of semiconductor products – this negatively affected the production of new video cards. The high demand for them from miners only exacerbated the problem. Nvidia has come up with a way to scare them away from the potentially inexpensive GeForce RTX 3060 3D card – it didn’t work out very well , but there are rumors that the “green” ones will spread mining restrictions for other new models. For example, for the same GeForce RTX 3080 Ti . It was logical to think that AMD, whose video cards are in an even greater deficit, will follow the same path. But the company has already stated that they will not slow down anything on purpose. Simply because there is no point in software restrictions: in AMD solutions, restrictions are implemented at the hardware level.
AMD isn’t going to deliberately slow down its GPUs in mining. She has already done it at the architectural level
AMD Product Manager Nish Neelalojanan said during a press briefing that the introduction of the fast Infinity Cache in the latest generation video cards with a decrease in the memory bus width was not accidental.
The short answer is no. We won’t block any workload, not just mining, for that matter. However, there are a few things. First of all, RDNA was designed from the ground up for gaming, and RDNA 2 was doubly designed. By this I mean that the Infinity Cache and the lower bus width were chosen to achieve specific gaming results. At the same time, mining requires a higher bandwidth and bus width, and therefore it scales, so there are architectural level limitations for mining itself.
He also added:
All our optimizations, as always, are primarily related to games, and we optimized everything for games. It is clear that gamers will reap a ton of benefits from this, but it would not be ideal for a mining workload. Nevertheless, this market is always interesting to watch.
In general, AMD has expressed a commitment to the ideas of gaming, not mining, which is good. It’s bad that there are still few video cards on the market, and this shortage keeps the cost of initially inexpensive models, like the same Radeon RX 6700 XT, at an exorbitant level .
