XFX China Allegedly Sold Most of Its AMD Radeon RX GPUs Directly to Cryptomining Farms

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Despite trailing NVIDIA on the performance front, AMD has carved out a very successful niche for itself in the crypto market. Not that green team doesn’t have popular mining cards of its own (e.g., GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER), but a new report from MyDrivers claims that Radeon GPUs are in such high demand for mining that manufacturers have begun selling entire stocks of Radeon RX 5700 XT, Radeon RX 5600 XT, Radeon RX 590, and Radeon RX 580 GPUs directly to mining farms.



“According to the information received, throughout September, XFX did not give agents several graphics cards in China,” according to a machine translation shared by...

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