The obvious worry for buying a graphics card used for mining is that performance will be vastly degraded, and the GPU will fail sooner than expected. This is generally not the case, however.

The dirty little secret in tech that is not really much of a secret at all is that the GPU shortage is partially a result of cryptocurrency mining. This depressing reality can be lost or ...

While there is still a shortage of AMD Radeon 500 series graphics cards, mostly the Radeon RX 580 and RX 570, the market should stabilize soon as these, and other mid-range graphics cards, have ...

Just the PC you already use, and the AMD or Nvidia gaming graphics card inside of it. If you didn’t jump on the money train then, prepare to have your FOMO triggered.

Buying a second-hand GPU is a bit of a minefield (ahem) at any time, but with big mining operations closing up shop, if used cards need to be shifted, it’s obviously in their interest to do that ...

Nvidia's latest graphics card will deliberately slow down if used to mine a popular crypto-currency. ... This will make it less economical for miners to use the card for mining Ethereum.

A swarm of coin mining cards have hit online e-tailers over the past few days, as AnandTech reports. Most are based on AMD’s more mining-friendly Radeon “Polaris” GPUs, but you’ll also ...

The price of midrange graphics cards like the RX 580 and GTX 1070 have exploded following a renewed interest in cryptocurrency mining. Nvidia is not happy with this new trend and has requested ...

When used for cracking passwords, a modern high-end graphics card will absolutely chew through “classic” hashing algorithms like SHA-1 and SHA-2. When a single desktop machine can run through ...

Cryptocurrency mining is largely the arena of purpose-built machines, but GPUs remain a viable way to mine. Here's everything you need to know about GPU mining.

For instance, AMD cards seem to outperform other cards at the moment and they are taking advantage of this with their release of Mining specific GPU drivers for their new Vega architecture.