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Recently, the AMD Radeon graphics card market has been experiencing a significant shortage caused by a significant surge in demand in China. The situation is aggravated by the rising cost of Bitcoin and Ethereum, which leads to an increase in the activity of miners.
Miners are buying up all available reserves, and the upcoming release of Zen 5 processors is rumored to double the performance of Zen 4, which could further exacerbate the shortage.
Mining cryptocurrencies is traditionally associated with a large expenditure of resources, including electricity, water,and land. Now miners have also started to buy AMD Ryzen processors in large quantities, in particular, the Ryzen 9 7950X, which is in high demand due to support for the AVX2 and AVX512 instructions, which are key for mining rigs, and overall efficiency.
The 7950X processors are more profitable than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, in part because of the higher cost of the latter. It is expected that the situation will worsen after the start of mass production of Zen 5 processors.
It is noted that Zen 5 processors will begin production at TSMC factories between April and June, and mass production is planned for the next quarter. The main Zen 5 models will be equipped with Nirvana cores, and chips for densely loaded segments will be equipped with Zen 5c Prometheus cores.
Miners, in turn, are particularly interested in the new generation of AMD chips due to the doubling of AVX512 performance compared to Zen 4. In addition, AMD Radeon graphics cards are already facing a shortage in China after the US ban on the export of NVIDIA RTX 4090 to China.
Miners are buying up all available reserves, and the upcoming release of Zen 5 processors is rumored to double the performance of Zen 4, which could further exacerbate the shortage.
Mining cryptocurrencies is traditionally associated with a large expenditure of resources, including electricity, water,and land. Now miners have also started to buy AMD Ryzen processors in large quantities, in particular, the Ryzen 9 7950X, which is in high demand due to support for the AVX2 and AVX512 instructions, which are key for mining rigs, and overall efficiency.
The 7950X processors are more profitable than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, in part because of the higher cost of the latter. It is expected that the situation will worsen after the start of mass production of Zen 5 processors.
It is noted that Zen 5 processors will begin production at TSMC factories between April and June, and mass production is planned for the next quarter. The main Zen 5 models will be equipped with Nirvana cores, and chips for densely loaded segments will be equipped with Zen 5c Prometheus cores.
Miners, in turn, are particularly interested in the new generation of AMD chips due to the doubling of AVX512 performance compared to Zen 4. In addition, AMD Radeon graphics cards are already facing a shortage in China after the US ban on the export of NVIDIA RTX 4090 to China.
