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Blockchain is back, and cryptocurrency is coming up again. Earlier this week, PayPal announced that it would accept cryptocurrency payments, which gave Bitcoin a bump in price. With AMD Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" cards coming soon, there could be a new rush to mine cryptocurrency. The fine folks at Phoronix, however, have discovered something called “navi10 blockchain SKU” in the AMD Linux drivers hinting at older hardware purpose-built for mining. When Bitcoin and Ethereum peaked several years ago, it lead to a mass frenzy of graphics cards for mining. At that time, GPU manufacturers started to produce display-less GPUs for cryptocurrency mining. These GPUs would, in theory,...
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This is shaping up to be a big year in GPUs. Intel is gearing up to launch its first discrete GPU of the modern era, NVIDIA recently announced its next-generation Ampere GPU (which will find its way into gaming graphics cards), and AMD is prepping a round of Navi GPUs based on its RDNA 2 architecture. As it pertains to the latter, a fresh leak purportedly offers up some interesting details. To recap, RDNA 2 is being injected into Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PlayStation 5 consoles, which are slated to arrive later this year. In addition, RDNA 2 will land on PC as well. Rumor has it RDNA 2 will offer a major performance uplift over RDNA 1, and it's been confirmed at least some of the GPUs...
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AMD formally launched its Navi GPU architecture with the release of its Radeon RX 5700 series of graphics cards, and slowly but surely, the company is fleshing things out with more SKUs. That includes the recently launched Radeon RX 5500 series. Coming soon, however, is a new Radeon RX 5600 series, including an XT model that is the subject of a new leak. Before we get to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, let's quickly look at the core specs of AMD's existing Navi lineup, for context... Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition (Navi 10): 2,560 stream processors (40 CUs), 1,680MHz base clock, 1,830MHz game clock, 1,980 boost clock, 8GB GDDR6 (14Gbps), 256-bit bus Radeon RX 5700 XT (Navi 10): 2,560 stream...
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AMD has already confirmed that the first 7nm Navi-based GPUs will begin shipping in the coming months, which has many gamers excited. "We are well-positioned to grow GPU revenue in the second quarter and through the second half of the year as we expect to introduce our first 7-nanometer Navi gaming GPUs in the third quarter," said AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su during last week's earnings call. Now we're beginning to hear some additional [alleged] leaked details about one of the first members of the incoming Navi family. The rumored Radeon RX 3080 XT will be based on Navi 10 and will reportedly come equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Other reported specs include a total of 56 compute units and a TDP...
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