The arrival of Intel Arc GPUs promises the emergence of a third major GPU manufacturer to compete against NVIDIA and AMD, and thus try to give more stock to users who want a GPU at an affordable price without having to fight cryptocurrency miners . but it doesn't look like they're going to be GPUs that crypto miners will avoid.
According to recent statements by Intel's Raja Koduri and Roger Chandler, Intel's Arc graphics cards will not have any anti-cryptocurrency mining features to prevent miners from hijacking them. For Intel, for now, it is not a priority.
Intel won't stop its Intel Arc from being bought by cryptocurrency miners
According to Koduri of the Graphics and Accelerated Computing Systems division and Chandler of Client Graphics Products and Solutions, a software blocking system against cryptocurrency mining on Intel Arc graphics cards is not a priority . These statements come from an interview with Gadgets 360 about the upcoming Arc series of graphics cards.
They commented that they are not going to put any extra work into it since for them, Intel Arc graphics cards should simply be available to everyone. Although they claim that Intel has optimized the card for gamers and content creators in particular. Koduri and Chandler claim that they cannot guarantee that there will be enough supply when the GPUs are launched in early 2022, due to the high demand that will be there.
They added that the lack of stock is not unique to Intel Arc, and that it also happens to competing GPUs. The entire graphics card market is challenging, with chip shortages around the world and delivery issues, which could lead to demand not being met by early 2022 as many manufacturers have been warning us for months.
Source: Guru3D
