Thursday, March 29th 2018
Mining, and not Gaming, Compelled ASRock to Enter the Graphics Market
When we first reported news of ASRock entering the graphics market with a focus on AMD Radeon GPUs, the story included a theory that crypto-currency mining was the primary driver behind the company's move. ASRock in its press-deck announcing its new Phantom Gaming series graphics cards late Wednesday, inadvertently confirmed that theory. While the cards are branded Phantom "Gaming," the press-deck slide detailing the lineup is prominently headlined "Mining" besides "Radeon 500 Series VGA." Our GPU Database curator also mentions that the cards' designs bear striking similarities to coolers from Chaintech, the OEM that supplies to Chinese VGA brands such as Colorful. Strangely enough, ASRock still went with "gaming" branding, and gave the cards proper display connectors, so it's hedging its bets on both gamers and miners.
Source:
VideoCardz
43 Comments on Mining, and not Gaming, Compelled ASRock to Enter the Graphics Market
EDIT: That was a legitimate question. Downvotes rather than answers, really guys?
God damn that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I had a Chaintech KT333 motherboard back in the day, was epic :D
Well, that's not confusing at all.
2nd why would you want anything less than a RX580 for gaming :kookoo:
I guess we wait and see if this is something that pans out for them or if it's just one of those, we tried it and it didn't work and they move on with business as before. I, for one, hope this works out well for them. Always nice having more choices, even if it is for GPUs.
A: Relative to just where we are in the market today, for sure the GPU channel is lower than we would like it to be, so we are ramping up our production. At this point we are not limited by silicon per se, so our foundry partners are supplying us, there are shortages in memory and I think that is true across the board, whether you are talking about GDDR5, or you’re talking about high bandwidth memory. We continue to work through that, with our memory partners and that will be certainly one of the key factors as we go through 2018.