Intel Arc GPUs to Ship Without Cryptocurrency Mining Limitations

[Mark Kaine]

On 10/12/2021 at 2:27 PM, J-from-Nucleon said:

This is gonna be controversial, innit?

I dunno, it just means between this and "half/fake" cores and back to you steve pr disasters, not too mention a snobby "ceo" intel is maneuvering themselves into a position where they are no option whatsoever. And I really wanted a nice, modern 20+ core cpu,  guess not anytime soon.

[williamcll]

Well hopefuly this would reduce the demand for Nvidia/AMD GPU mining.

[Tr0gdor]

I don't know how I feel about this. While I definitely see merit in Crypto, 99% of it is just people speculating right now, there's barely any (legal) utility and it doesn't look like there will be many legal utilities soon.

 

On top of that, Crypto mining, NFTs etc are extremely bad for the environment. And for what? Air! Miners are in it for the money, people buy crypto to speculate, most of them lose money doing so.. 

 

It's literally like a game of online Poker with millions of participants that uses the electricity of a small-medium sized country non-stop.

 

Nvidia did a good thing by limiting hash rates, in my opinion. But then they did a bad thing by creating dedicated mining cards..  Because that's how Nvidia rolls. I wish AMD would limit hash rates and call it a day.