AMD has said it will not fight cryptocurrency mining on its graphics cards. This is reported by the PC Gamer edition.
AMD Product Manager Nish Neelalojanan told reporters about the refusal to restrict miners during a briefing on the launch of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. “We will not limit any workload, not only during mining,” he said. A company spokesman noted that users have the right to choose for what purpose they will use the equipment.
At the same time, an AMD top manager noted that the AMD video card was designed for modern video games and is not quite suitable for mining. Thus, the hashrate – a unit of measurement of power in mining – when mining cryptocurrencies using the company's video cards is limited at the level of the RDNA 2 architecture.
Reporters confirmed that the Radeon RX 6700 XT is not the best mining device. The experts called the GeForce RTX 3090 from Nvidia the most suitable video card for these tasks. At the same time, the message says that due to the growing cost of equipment and costs, cryptocurrency mining will sooner or later become economically unprofitable.
At the end of February, it became known that AMD's main competitor, Nvidia, had limited the mining of Ethereum cryptocurrency in its video cards. The company clarified that they want to “leave video cards for gamers.” The restrictions apply only to new Nvidia products.
