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I wouldn't be surprised if the performance is artificially hindered until later driver updates, to prevent them from being gobbled up by miners.

• riffraff 9y ago
  why is it an issue if miners gobble it up? A sale is a sale no?
  • TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
    Miners are not the company's core base and have no particular loyalty, and will quickly fizzle out. Basically, sure, miners get them quick cash, but if miners get their graphics cards and people wanting to play games or do other things don't, it'll make those potential customers unhappy and they may go to a competitor.
  • mastax 9y ago
    Miners tend to have very high rates of warranty returns, due to running the cards 24x7x365. In some markets manufacturers are trying to market mining cards which don't have display outputs, etc. and have short warranties. Many markets (US, EU) don't let you invalidate warranties just for using a product 24x7, so it doesn't work everywhere.
    • mamon 9y ago
      They could base GPU warranties based on usage, the same way car part warranties are based on mileage. In fact Samsung already is doing the same for SSDs: they have data write limit of 400 TB.
  • Nursie 9y ago
    It's probably not an issue for AMD, as they sell either way, but it does push up prices for the gamer.