Thursday, October 14th 2021
AMD BC-160 Cryptocurrency Mining Card Surfaces with 72 MH/s in ETH
VideoCardz has recently published pictures of a rumored AMD BC-160 (Blockchain Compute) mining card designed by XFX China and featuring a Navi 12 GPU. The card supposedly features 8 GB of HBM2 memory along with 2304 Stream Processors however a memory speed of 4 Gbps is also listed which is not currently available casting doubt on the legitimacy of this rumor. We did report on rumors in March that pointed to AMD releasing Navi 10/12 headless cryptocurrency mining cards so this could still be true.
The only existing product featuring the Navi 12 GPU is the Apple-exclusive AMD Radeon Pro 5600M which features 256 more Stream Processors at 2560. The BC-160 card was pictured in a mining cluster where it reached performance levels of 72 Mh/s in Etash with a TGP of 150 W. The card features two 8-pin power connectors and should offer performance around 25% faster than the Navi 10 Radeon RX 5700 XT. We are unsure if this is a real product or how much it might cost so take these rumors with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Source:
VideoCardz
The only existing product featuring the Navi 12 GPU is the Apple-exclusive AMD Radeon Pro 5600M which features 256 more Stream Processors at 2560. The BC-160 card was pictured in a mining cluster where it reached performance levels of 72 Mh/s in Etash with a TGP of 150 W. The card features two 8-pin power connectors and should offer performance around 25% faster than the Navi 10 Radeon RX 5700 XT. We are unsure if this is a real product or how much it might cost so take these rumors with a healthy dose of skepticism.
41 Comments on AMD BC-160 Cryptocurrency Mining Card Surfaces with 72 MH/s in ETH
Only 86% as good as passive cooling.
Also, these cards are just gonna become e-waste once the crypto bubble pops (if it hasn't already).
Interestingly I wonder how much those cards are going to cost because that's the return of HBM. Modern GFX cards are better off with the latest HBM variant.
Projects like ether are very innovative creating have decentralised finance, where to run apps without have illogical limitations imposed by governments and central banks.
Then graphics carda became multipurpose processors some time ago, people should stop thinking that they are only for gaming, they are used for gaming, video editing, 3d modelling, machine learning... Etc yet only mining is pointing out.
But big corporations are using pro class cards .. They have better support for applications, are more efficient and costy ... Miners are using lower grade cards (''gaming''), because of RoI .. (hobbies and freelancers dont buy bulk like miners)
Just consider a business startup in 2015. Let's say the owner can decide to pay their employees in Etherium instead of USD. So they pay about 10 Etherium an hour, let's say that it's the equivalent of $10 an hour. In a year, that 10 Etherium/hr is worth $90/hr. In another year it's worth $10,000/hr. The owner would have to be renegotiating their contract with their employee every week, so for that owner, more work would go into labor negotiation than any useful business practices. I hope maybe this makes you realize that an unregulated PoW crytocurrency will never work in a labor market.
The fact that you can buy stuff with crypto have more to do with tax evasion than anything else.