HW News Review Week 25

Cryptocurrency mining no longer pays off, miners sell their cards

Although the whole world is going through a very difficult period from an economic point of view, there is at least one good news if you are not a cryptocurrency miner. The price of Bitcoin and Ethereum has been falling rapidly in recent weeks.

In China and other Asian countries, miners are quickly getting rid of their graphics cards in the form of streaming auctions. The hope of making money on cryptocurrencies is slowly fading, and they hope that the loss of money will not be so big if they sell their cards now. In addition, Ethereum will not be mined from the end of the year, so the chances of earning are almost zero.

The prices on these auctions are definitely friendly, for example, this RTX 3060 Ti sells for between $300 and $350. However, Wccftech journalist Hassan Mujtaba notes that the cards used to withdraw crypto may not be in the best condition and should be avoided. In any case, the flow of used cards will inevitably lead to lower prices even for new ones, which are already relatively close to the MSRP. So let’s hope that the situation continues to improve and persist for the coming new generation.

An example of what you get into after buying a used video card for mining: https://t.co/Qs9Q1HhTi8

— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) June 23, 2022

FSR 2.0 is open source and is already being tested on Xbox consoles.

FSR 2.0 technology is a very serious competitor to Nvidia DLSS. And although he can not always achieve such visual quality, he has an undeniable advantage – accessibility. FidelityFX Super Resolution is not tied to AMD graphics cards, it also works with Nvidia or Intel graphics cards. In addition, it is gradually being added to more and more games, and another major step was announced a few days ago: AMD has released the source code, and thus FSR 2.0 is open source. In addition, the technology is already available as a plugin for the popular Unreal Engine 4 and 5.

To collect absolutely 🔥 # FSR2-tastic 🔥 week for us, we are happy to launch our @UnrealEngine plugins!

Available for download now for:
✨# UE40.26 / 4.27
✨# UE5

Take them and find out more at #GPUOpen 👀https://t.co/PXwMq05skL

– GPUOpen (@GPUOpen) June 24, 2022

However, the list of news about FSR does not end there. It was announced that it is already aimed at the Xbox console, like Series X | S, and on the old One. Version 2.0 is now available to developers, so you can expect the first games to hit consoles soon. However, we still have no information on how the PS5 is doing and whether it is interested in Sony technologies at all. It has been speculated for some time that he can cook his own backstage.

We are very happy to provide #FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 to @xbox Developers! #FSR 2 can be found in the most recent GDKX samples – building a cross-platform for #xbox Series X | S, Xbox One and Windows desktop.

Thanks a lot @Microsoft for this ongoing collaboration. pic.twitter.com/IX1dGcNbVt

– GPUOpen (@GPUOpen) June 23, 2022