Coindesk reported that the company just unveiled a new AMD RX based series labeled Phantom Gaming Series. According to the article an ASRock America employee confirmed to CoinDesk that 4 of the RX570 series cards will be for mining only and only one card in the line will be a gaming card. Another confirmation was later posted by VideoCardz.com on twitter showcasing the specs for the mining cards.

Previously we reported that the Nvidia founder is also on the opinion that cryptocurrencies are here to stay indicating that they will potentially continue optimizing for mining besides gaming.

A target market for these GPUs are questionable currently as Bitmain just recently announced their Antminer E3, which is an Ethereum ASIC (mining specific hardware). Mining manufacturers are known to pre-mine with hardware meaning that they potentially already pushed up difficulty with these on the Ethereum chain and it will continue to rise as people get their own hardware delivered.

There are still alternative projects left for miners like Zcash and ZenCash, which both use Equihash and are GPU mineable (they rank #3 and #5 by profitability), but projects like Ethereum and Ethereum Classic might get dominated by ASICs for now. Also worth noting that Ethereum might transit from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake with Casper in the near future.