Amd bets heavily on cryptocurrency mining

With the release of its latest graphics controller, Radeon Software 17.10.2, AMD has added support for several new features to its GPUs including a feature specifically aimed at cryptocurrency miners.

Cryptocurrencies are more important than ever to AMD

This new controller adds to Radeon Settings a new option to modify the GPU workload, by default it is Gaming, but it can be changed to load a "Computing" mode that has been designed to offer the best performance in workloads oriented to computational tasks, such as cryptocurrency mining. Let's remember that AMD's GCN architecture is very efficient in this type of tasks with an important advantage over Nvidia.

Thanks to this new option included in the drivers , AMD GPUs should be able to achieve higher hash rates without much or no change in power consumption, which is great news for miners. AMD has also updated its drivers to offer support for up to 12 individual AMD GPUs (Polaris or Vega) on a single system, allowing more GPUs to be connected to a single motherboard for mining purposes. This feature could be used for other tasks, but we all know that mining is what AMD is looking for here.

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AMD's support for miners is controversial among players, however it remains a market sector that represents a sizeable portion of AMD's consumer base, meaning driver optimizations in this regard are crucial to the company if they want to continue taking advantage of this market.

AMD's latest hardware release has been the Radeon RX Vega cards, which have not been well received by video game players but have found their salvation in cryptocurrency miners, it cannot be denied that Sunnyvale's are doing a lot box with this market sector. The bad news for AMD is that the cryptocurrency bubble is not going to last forever.

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