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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by TomVDB on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:18PM (#29201879)
Ethereum mining performance relies on memory bandwidth. Designing a GDDR6 or GDDR6X memory controller is hard.
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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by rbanffy on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:02PM (#29203235)
I wonder how the M1 Max fares with its 400 GBps bus.
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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by TomVDB on Friday November 12, 2021 @10:56PM (#29207230)
It won't do well.

Compare that 50 GB/s of the M1 Max to 760 GB/s of an RTX 3080. Then check prices. Even after ridiculous scalping markups, the RTX 3080 will still be cheaper.

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