Hardware giant AMD is not planning to enforce any artificial limitations on the crypto mining capabilities of its graphics cards, the company told PC Gamer during a pre-briefing call for its Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card on Wednesday.
„The short answer is no. We will not be blocking any workload, not just mining for that matter,” said Nish Neelalojanan, product manager at AMD.
Nvidia, AMD’s main (and only) competitor, has recently announced that it will enforce restrictions on new GPUs that would throttle Ethereum mining. However, the company later accidentally published a developer version of the driver for its RTX 3060 GPU that enabled users to bypass hash rate limits.
AMD, by contrast, won’t even try to stand in the way of crypto mining, according to Neelalojanan. However, there’s a catch.
Neelalojanan explained that AMD is optimizing its chips for gamers first and foremost. „Clearly, gamers are going to reap a ton of benefit from this, and it’s not going to be ideal fo
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