Sunday, August 15th 2021
Sapphire Dual Radeon RX 570 Mining Card Pictured
Sapphire appears to be preparing a custom mining product consisting of two RX 570 GPUs onboard a single card. The board features two Polaris 20XL GPUs each with 2048 Stream Processes paired with 8 GB of ram for a total of 16 GB. The mining card reported a total power draw of 156 W with each GPU drawing 78 W however this number may refer only to ASIC power and the total card draw could be higher. The card achieved a mining hashrate of 59.69 MH/s which while not particularly impressive by today's standards still offers an efficiency level similar to that of the RX 6600 XT. The board features a single HDMI port and no clear branding as Sapphire has attempted to hide their connection to the card by hiding their logo underneath the heatsink.
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Saraba1st
34 Comments on Sapphire Dual Radeon RX 570 Mining Card Pictured
That said, PCPartner does own shares in Sapphire and they obviously own the Zotac brand, among others.
The market used to be so much more bubbling when those were around.
Shout out to Sapphire's oddball HD4850X2
You could argue that Sapphire should be using these to make gaming cards to fill the void but at the end of the day they are in the business of making money and miners have money. As a gamer I'm not going to cry over the loss of 5-year-old GPU technology; Nobody should be looking to outfit a new build or upgrade to an RX 570 at this point, supplies of GPUs appear to be slowly returning to sane levels and pricing sanity as supply meets demand does finally feel like it's just around the corner.
I'm reasonably sure it's not a nefarious attempt to hide their connection, it's just about a zero-fluff, no RGB, no flair, no-nonsense design. Go faster stripes, pretty lights, and aggressive styling add nothing to the hashrate but do add to the cost.
Here are some Nvidia HX mining cards from other brands, and for the record, I adore the zero-fuss, zero-nonsense styling of some of these. I find the whole RGBLED angular gundam-themed nonsense of most Asian vendors unsightly. Give me Nvidia's clean reference designs any day of the week, please!
Companies make mining GPU's = evil companies
Something doesn't add up.
The ETH PoS date is why prices are coming down; miners have stopped buying cards because ROI is about 5 months and the PoS transition is 5 months away (or was, I thought....)
These dedicated asics will be limited in supply to be replaced by residue 5500s, 5600s and 6600s which are all cut downI agree, just clear out all rx 400, 500, 5000 stock to make room for 6000, 7000, 8000
Sapphire's name fits them well to boot.