As AMD and Nvidia see the price of their graphics cards soar due to shortages due to supply issues and scalpers, Intel is already planning to create graphics cards specifically dedicated to cryptocurrency miners.
Intel, the newcomer to the dedicated graphics card market, does not want to attract the wrath of gamers. In an interview with streamer Dr. Lupo, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group, Raja Koduri, shared some exclusive information about the upcoming Intel ARC GPU with architecture. Alchemist.
So far, we don’t know much about Intel’s upcoming graphics cards. The Arc A350, A370M and A380 names were revealed earlier this month, and the Intel ARC Alchemist spec sheet was revealed ahead of the announcement. Raja Koduri took the opportunity to announce that all graphics cards will be available from 2022, and some GPUs will be dedicated for cryptocurrency mining to fight against scalpers.
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To fight against scalpers, NVIDIA introduced LHR (light hash rate) technology in its most recent graphics cards to prevent miners from using GPUs that gamers want to do blockchain validation, but that doesn’t seem to be holding back cryptocurrency miners who are still scrambling for available stocks. Indeed, some had even managed to bypass Nvidia’s restrictions.
On the Intel side, Raja announced to work on a similar solution. Intel would like its graphics cards to end up in gaming PCs, and not in cryptocurrency mining farms. Intel would also be working on dedicated Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain validation hardware), which could validate blockchain validation much more efficiently while consuming less power compared to GPUs. ” It is a problem that is possible to solve and on which we are working and soon we will present material to achieve it. “.
Finally, Raj Koduri said that Intel will offer its own scalable multi-GPU solution, which will allow graphics cards to work with each other without technical barriers. This is a technology that can be compared with the old SLIs from Nvidia and Crossfire from AMD.