[problems]

Mining is unlikely, with bitcoin at least. Bitcoin passed the FPGA stage and moved onto ASICs many years ago. There are some alt coins that are currently best mined on GPUs though and this may change that or put their claims to a real test.

[rphlx]

The boards used for this preview do not have enough memory bandwidth to pose even a modest threat to the latest batch of memory-hard GPU PoW algos.