AMD Refuses to Limit Cryptocurrency Mining Performance of Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards

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Contrary to what NVIDIA has decided with its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, AMD will not be implementing any sort of cryptocurrency mining limiter in any of its Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs. The claim stems from one of red team’s product managers, Nish Neelalojanan, who bluntly stated during a recent call that the company had no plans to hamper the performance of its products in any way. While RDNA 2 was strictly designed for gaming purposes, AMD believes that owners should be able to use them in any way that they see fit.



“The short answer is no,” Neelalojanan said in regard to a potential mining limiter during a Radeon RX 6700 XT pre-briefing call picked up by PC Gamer. “We will not be blocking any workload, not just mining for that matter.”



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[hubaduba]

Better than saying one thing and doing another.

 

[magoo]

It's obvious that AMDs goal is to sell a product and they could care less if the miners buy them all......a sale is a sale.

 

[Dogsofjune]

I think it's more of why bother when the mining community will just break it.
I'd rather worry about getting stock out the door than spend time and research on defeating miners. Seems fruitless on that front.