A new avalanche is hanging over the world of desktop PCs and possibly servers too, and it’s, according to a new report, that crypto miners have new victims: AMD Ryzen processors. The graphics card market will change with RDNA 3 and at the same time with Zen 3+ and its successors, as Raptoreum is in hiding and will leave a lot of things where there were previously shelves full of processors for sale.
What does a miner do when they don’t have a GPU or ASIC available? How should it move when the price is so absurd that even with units it far exceeds the minimum profitability to be exploited? Very easy, take your eye on other cryptocurrencies that are profitable. Money doesn’t include political parties, countries, companies, teams, or users, so crypto miners are on the move and now focus on AMD processors.
Cryptocurrencies Leak From ASICs: Raptoreum
Raptoreum is a new cryptocurrency that has a very simple premise: end the ASIC or FPGA mining domain. For this, this piece focuses on the CPU mining method thanks to the algorithm Ghost rider, which is at the same time a combination of Cryptonite y x16r with some important changes in the encoding.
What does it mean? Well, the job basically benefits from a bigger L3 cache because the algorithm has more interactions with the cores. For this reason, miners focused on Threadripper and EPYC processors, a good example being the 7742, but most importantly and surprisingly the Ryzen processors.
This is because GhostRider is modeled on Proof of work Which we have already talked about before and logically, as with RX GPUs, the Infinity Cache is crucial to achieve higher performance.
The Ryzen is starting to run out
While current Ryzen 9s like the 5950X or 5900X are already starting to become scarce due to their high performance and large 64MB L3 cache (4247 h / s 3557 h / s respectively) what comes with the following Zen architectures is going to be great, because precisely one of the improvements is the V-Cache, which will greatly increase the size of it in general.
This is even more improved if you take into account that Milan-X will arrive with 768 MB of L3, so imagine the computing power with a dual socket system and how enjoyable it will be for miners.
Right now the market is only reducing the prices and therefore the sales of both Ryzen 9s are high which, added to crypto mining, makes the stock minimal or zero. Threadrippers begin to suffer in the same way and EPYCs arrive in counted units.
The biggest problem will come with Zen 3+ and Zen 4, where it is more than likely that we will get into the dynamics of scarcity and speculation, as they are more energy efficient, they have cores to spare and logically those. 192 MB of L3 They are more than delicious for the price they are going to have.
Will Intel win the battle against the AMD processor shortage? Will it be impossible to acquire a Zen 3+ at a price even close to the MSRP? We will see…
