The company announced that it will deprive one of its video cards of the ability to display images on the screen. This makes the GPU useless for gamers AMD is preparing to unveil a new GPU that will be designed for cryptocurrency mining, PC Gamer reports. According to the publication, the system based on the Navi 10 and Navi 12 chips will be able to mine Ethereum. AMD Graphics Driver Update states that the new GPU will be released without VCN and DCN technologies, which will prevent it from streaming…
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes with reduced mining hashrate
Like the recently released Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, which came with a mining hashrate cap imposed by Nvidia, the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti also came out “with a lower Ethereum hashrate,” making it less attractive to miners. The newly released Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is nearly equivalent in spec to the RTX 3090 GPU, but has half the video memory, that is, just 12 GB of GDDR6X instead of the full 24 GB. For the new RTX 3080 Ti, in terms of CUDA cores, there is a very…
Nvidia Shipping RTX GPUs With Faulty Micron GDDR6 Memory
Nvidia recently announced their RTX 20 series of GPUs based on the Turing Architecture to much praise and fanfare however customers who were lucky enough to receive their RTX 2080 or 2080Ti already are reporting severe issues. Users are reporting startup woes and severe artifacting with the most likely culprit being faulty GDDR6 modules incapable of operating at the default clockspeed that Nvidia ships their GPUs with. With the sheer amount of reports it’s clear that Nvidia have avoided quality control before shipping with a particular batch, this could be…
AMD CPUs Take Charge Over Intel at Leading German Retailer
Leading German retailer Mindfactory.de has shared their monthly report on the market share of the processors sold. According to the report, AMD have just barely overtaken Intel in CPU sales in the month of August. On the report we can see that AMD and Intel processors hitting parity with one another in sales alone, with AMD coming out on top by the width of a hair. This month however AMD sales have continued with an upwards trajectory with AMD taking the lead with 51% to Intel’s 49%. This time last year saw…