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
Judging from the spec sheet we are talking single fan, single dvi output low end cards. So hopefully they are at a good price point.
@btarunr
It might be a good idea to update the article with this information.
EDIT: Should read "seldom resell," if it makes a difference. And that's pretty factual: Most resells come from small time miners. Big mine farms have too much invested to go any other way... Not that that'll stop belief based downvotes.
If you ask me, they are already crapping in their way without even have started yet.
www.asrock.com/Microsite/PhantomVGA/index.asp