Amd releases special beta drivers for mining

Mining of crypto-currencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum seems to be an increasingly lucrative practice and graphics card manufacturers like AMD don't want to miss out on this market.

AMD concentrates on mining with its new drivers

The Sunnyvale company today released controllers that improve block-based workload - blockchain , which is used in virtual currency mining. This is good news for miners, who should improve times with Radeon 7900 graphics cards onwards, yes, they also work for the new generation VEGA.

Going into details about these drivers. This appears to be AMD's response to the drop in DAG performance that Radeon graphics cards were experiencing on Ethereum. The new drivers increased the performance of the Radeon RX 480 (used in the example) from 14.8 MH / s in DAG # 199 (from 24.6 MH / s in DAG # 130) to a prospective performance of 24, 8 MH / s DAG # 199 according to the Claymore reference index.

It is not unreasonable to think that as coins like Bitcoin continue to increase in popularity, graphics card manufacturers are focusing less and less on gaming. This could be dangerous for players. Nor can it be ruled out that, in a short time, manufacturers such as Nvidia or AMD launch exclusive models for mining.

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After all, AMD or Nvidia are here to make money, and if mining is more lucrative for them in the long run, let's be sure that's where they'll put their best effort.

What do you think? Do you think manufacturers will focus more on mining?