Mar 6, 2021 03:42 EST
AMD could soon be following NVIDIA in offering its own line of crypto mining-specific graphics cards based on the RDNA GPU architecture. The new graphics cards will reportedly feature the first-generation RDNA architecture and will be primarily designed to handle blockchain crypto-mining algorithms.
AMD RDNA Crypto Mining Graphics Cards Reportedly In The Works To Counter NVIDIA s CMP Lineup
This isn t the first time an AMD graphics card has appeared which seems to be targeted at crypto miners. An AMD Navi 10 GPU was spotted in Linux Kernel patches all the way back in October, as reported by Videocardz. The graphics card lacked two essential technologies that hindered it from being a gaming card, DCN (Display Core Next) and VCN (Video Core Next). Such a graphics card is essentially headless and provides no display output capabilities.
05:37 | AMD Building Linux Team
In a recent report by Michael Larabel at Phoronix a site we’re happy to recommend for its Linux-specific benchmarks it was reported that AMD is growing its team of Linux developers. AMD currently has job listings for a Linux Kernel development manager, described on the AMD careers page as a mentor to a team of developers to enable design and implementation of “Linux operating system features supporting AMD CPUs.” The job lists responsibilities as including management of an engineering team “in the area of Linux kernel and KVM virtualization development.”
Other job listings on AMD’s jobs page include Linux Engineering for client devices, defined as “a key engineer on our team [who] configures and tunes Linux distribution packages to take advantage of AMD technologies on customer platforms.” They say that this role would participate in planning next generation CPUs and APUs, too.