Intel’s new Arc A380 graphics card has been put to the test in multiple ways, with an interesting new one here: Ethereum mining on Intel’s new GPU.
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The Nanominer developer recently added support for Intel’s new Arc GPU, where it has been benchmarked against some Ethereum mining… performance-wise, the new Intel Arc A380 graphics card spits out only 10 .2 MHz/s without any optimization enabled. We’re looking at 75W of power which isn’t bad for power consumption, but performance-wise the new Intel Arc A380 is worse than NVIDIA’s low-end GeForce GTX 1660 series GPUs.
Ethereum miners are gearing up for the Proof of Stake in the coming weeks, making Ethereum mining on the Intel Arc A380 somewhat pointless. It’s good to see performance and stuff from Intel’s new GPU, but when the DAG size for Ethereum is 5127MB, the Intel Arc A380’s VRAM becomes a problem.
Sure, there is 6GB of VRAM, but the available VRAM for the A380 is 4832MB… this is a problem if the Arc A380 is your primary GPU and is busy (eating up VRAM) running other things If you throw in a miner with other Arc GPUs, the 6GB of VRAM won’t be a problem… at least for the next few days.
Ethereum goes Proof of Stake sometime between September 10th and September 20th…so we only have a few weeks, but then there is the fact that cryptominers can move to other coins like Ethereum Classic (ETC) .
There are a few steps you can do, to enable auto switch you need to add the following line to your config “switchToEtc = true” while disabling the auto switch then you need to add the following line to your setting: ” switchToEtc = false”.