Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
by PartiallyTyped on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:06AM
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ASICs are much more efficient than GPUs wrt to power consumption and that translates to less heat production, space, and operation costs.
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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
by AtlasBarfed on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:38PM
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As cryptocurrencies pop up like flies, has ASIC design -> production started streamlining more?
It was my impression before BTC that ASICs weren't particularly frequent, since FPGAs existed for a lot of applications, but mining has the pressing need for absolute performance and tuning and iteration that it would accelerate that space.