i think its amazing that neither AMD nor Nnvidia has a pure mining GPU card.
Imagine the market ... a gamer buys 1 "ok" card .. a miner buys 2-500 of them..
I'm sure that AMD has seen a spike in their cards and correlated it with mining. I'd imagine that in their boardroom there is a long term plan to make sure mining is more viable.
Think about it. Spread a few million $ around us hobby miners and what is the return in brand loyalty etc.. It's very very high.
I can't believe that AMD hasn't realized this and made a coin that you can use to buy their products and is min-able with only their cards. I BET it happens.
Go look at the quarter reports or yearly GPU sales. Nvidia and AMD sell probably 10 million GPUs every year. There are maybe 100,000 mining right now. And most were the old GPUs like 7950 which were built 4-5 years ago.
They don't make that much profit with miners.