Monday, August 29th 2022
Intel Arc A380 Gains Ethereum Mining Support Reaching 10.2 MH/s
The Intel Arc A380 has recently been tested for crypto mining performance after support for the card was added in the latest release of Nanominer. The card achieved a hash rate of 10.2 MH/s while mining Ethereum Classic (ETC) without any optimizations at a TDP of 75 W equating to 0.136 MH/s per Watt which is significantly below other popular mining cards which can reach 0.38 MH/s per Watt. This limited performance can be partially attributed to the availability of only 8 Xe-Cores and the relatively small 96-bit memory bus. The card will struggle to mine Ethereum due to its limited 6 GB of VRAM while Ethereum Classic should work fine as demonstrated.
Sources:
Red Panda Mining (via VideoCardz), Nanominer
10 Comments on Intel Arc A380 Gains Ethereum Mining Support Reaching 10.2 MH/s
Polaris cards also do poorly if the driver isn't set to "compute mode".
ETH mining probably isn't going to drive their GPU sales like it did for AMD and NVIDIA, so why would they worry about hashrate?
Considering that, 10.2MH/s is like half of a 1060's hashrate at the similar power consumption- not impresseive at all for the 186GB/s memory bandwidth.
"other popular mining cards which can reach 0.38 MH/s per Watt"
.38 isn't even that good.
RX 6600 = .45
RTX 3070 = .52