Sapphire Dual Radeon RX 570 Mining Card Pictured

[Chomiq]

There is no practical difference between what is a "gaming" chip and what is a "mining" chip in this context.

Based on MH/s this has equivalent performance of a 3060 Ti. I don't care if miners get their hands on chips from 2017.

 

[Chrispy_]

These dedicated asics will be limited in supply to be replaced by residue 5500s, 5600s and 6600s which are all cut down

Your use of the word ASICs is confusing people - You mean SKU, right?

GPUs are not ASICs at all, they are quite literally the oppostive of ASICs. ASICs are Application-Specific: An ETH ASIC, for example, is completely useless for anything except ETH. GPUs are as general-purpose and multi-function as they come. Hell, you can even use them to fry eggs!

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Another company I can add to my list of never buying a product from again! Yeeehaa!! that list sure is getting long, but I still have a few to choose from at least!

Man, sapphire is SO evil for selling 5 year old GPUs to miners, however will gamers cope?

XD why so mad?

 

[Space Lynx]

Man, sapphire is SO evil for selling 5 year old GPUs to miners, however will gamers cope?

XD why so mad?

doesn't it still require the use of silicon factories to make these old gpu's? couldn't those factories be fixing the silicon shortage in other industries like the car industry? which would in turn free up more space at the more advanced tsmc foundries for next gen stuff, as car industry currently has hold on some of the advanced foundry production time. but im pretty sure they can get buy with old foundry tech, just one example, I'm sure there are many.

 

[Chrispy_]

Based on MH/s this has equivalent performance of a 3060 Ti. I don't care if miners get their hands on chips from 2017.

2016. The 570 is just a 470 rebrand with 3% higher clocks

PoS deadline is officially still December, but there are more and more leaks that this might not be the case. Maybe big players can't close positions until then without crashing the market, so they decided to prolong it.

That works for me - making $100 a day from ETH mining at the moment. Longer mining is a win for me, more gaming cards is a win for me. The only way to always win is to play both sides :|

 

[KainXS]

They created a GPU to sell for 4 months to try to cash out on eth gains basically. In 4 months these will literally be ebayed into a landfill and that's pretty shameful.

 

[Chrispy_]

They created a GPU to sell for 4 months to try to cash out on eth gains basically. In 4 months these will literally be ebayed into a landfill and that's pretty shameful.

Why will they be landfill? There are plenty of other uses for compute cards like this:

• Other proof-of-work cryptocurrencies
• Simulations
• Finance
• Protein folding
• Rendering
• Dataset analytics

 

[eidairaman1]

Your use of the word ASICs is confusing people - You mean SKU, right?

GPUs are not ASICs at all, they are quite literally the oppostive of ASICs. ASICs are Application-Specific: An ETH ASIC, for example, is completely useless for anything except ETH. GPUs are as general-purpose and multi-function as they come. Hell, you can even use them to fry eggs!

Except mining on this is application specific.

 

[CheapMeat]

Anyone have a link where to buy stuff like this? I really want it for the novelty. I wish I had more dual cards. I started collecting them but GPU prices went inside. I think my favorite are still the HD7990s.

 

[Chrispy_]

Except mining on this is application specific.

No, Mining is just one of the many things this card can do. It's a GPGPU, not an ASIC.

Look up the defnition of ASIC, it's quite literally the binary opposite of a GPGPU so you are almost as incorrect as it's possible to be yet you're doubling down on that mistake despite me not being the first person to correct you on it in this short thread alone.