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Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

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Post by CactusOnFire » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 9:28 PM UTC

Tenoke wrote: post #2

Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess. Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.

Question for the experts in the comments:

I'm playing around more with deep learning as of late. Are the same technical specifications one would look for in a 'miner-friendly' GPU the same ones I'd look for in a GPU for Neural-net computations?

Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

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Post by kennywinker » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 1:28 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #254

kennywinker wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it’s not a direct per-transaction carbon footprint - but every transaction has mining fees, and more transactions mean there’s more money in mining which means more miners which means more carbon burnt.

this doesn't affect demand enough to die on that hill.

So far it has. The amount of co2 emitted by mining has gone up to match it’s adoption… is that supposed to stop somehow?

Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

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Post by vmception » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 6:19 AM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #262

vmception wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this doesn't affect demand enough to die on that hill.

So far it has. The amount of co2 emitted by mining has gone up to match it’s adoption… is that supposed to stop somehow?

The price on exchanges has little to do with onchain activity, which has always been a criticism of the valuation metrics, you are somehow reappropriating that retroactively in a way incompatible with the other criticism

its mind boggling… I would say more but I’m reserving my thoughts in case you have a rationale that is more convincing

Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

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Post by captainbland » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 2:08 PM UTC

Bad at crypto and at games if the specs are anything to go by. It's true the 6600 and 6700 series cards punch quite a bit above where you'd think they'd be relative to the 6800 parts but this one looks like an absolute bargain basement card.

Who knows, maybe AMD is going to pull another rabbit out of the hat? Seems unlikely with a 64-bit bus and 4gb vram though.