A hot irish potato: Given the fleck shortage and its event on graphics cards' availability/prices, using gaming GPUs in mining cards is a controversial motility, simply it does happen. Joining the companies that engage in this practice is Sapphire, which has created the X080 and X060 mining cards based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture found in the Radeon RX 6000 serial.

The images and spec sheets for the two graphics cards, the Sapphire GPRO X080 & the GPRO X060, were leaked by El Chapuza Informatico (via VideoCardz), showing their Ethash functioning and other details.

The Sapphire GPRO X080 uses a Navi 22 GPU with two,304 cores (36 CUs), a clock speed reaching 2,132 MHz, and features 10GB of 160-bit GDDR6 retention clocked at sixteen Gbps, giving a bandwidth of 320 GB/south. It uses the PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 interface and only works with Linux. As with many other mining cards, it lacks whatsoever display outputs.

The Sapphire GPRO X080 offers around 38.05 MH/s@165W, though information technology can exist tuned to ~41.6 MH/s@93W. For comparison, the Navi 23-based Radeon RX 6600 XT has a tuned mining operation of 32 MH/south@55W.

The GPRO X060, meanwhile, is a Navi 23 XL-based miner with 1,792 Stream Processors clocked at 2,044 MHz and a retentiveness clock of 14Gbps. It features 8GB of GDDR6 retentivity beyond a 128-bit interface. The card works with both Windows and Linux, is sold in bulk, and, somewhat unusually, it has a DisplayPort and HDMI. Ethereum miners tin get 28 MH/s at its default TGP of 100W and up to 30 MH/s@60W with tuned settings.

The GPRO X080 is priced at 750 Euros ($851), and the GPRO X060 is 550 Euros ($624).

Different Nvidia with its LHR and CMP cards, AMD has washed little to address the trouble of miners snapping up what few graphics cards are left. It was even forced to deny that it prioritizes its products for miners at the expense of gamers. Board partners are so concerned about the bad publicity that comes from creating mining-specific cards that many sneak them out under the radar, just like XFX did with this one.