Quote from: frostminer on May 08, 2016, 10:29:29 AM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 08, 2016, 09:57:32 AM

Quote from: adaseb on May 08, 2016, 09:47:06 AM

Quote from: Stein on May 08, 2016, 08:59:31 AM

Quote from: frostminer on May 08, 2016, 08:46:42 AM

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.

This,we are a VERY VERY small segment of GPU sales.............so don't hold your breath Cheesy

Its actually not that small.
Here are some intersting articles bout it:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/176724-amd-graphics-card-pricing-skyrockets-due-to-cryptocurrency-mining-could-kill-amds-gaming-efforts

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/02/22/amd-could-be-devastated-by-the-bitcoin-craze/

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/amd-hits-a-massive-gold-mine-with-their-r9-gaming--30985955/

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/11/amds-graphics-cards-are-selling-out.aspx

https://coinaxis.com/index.php/entry/litecoin-miners-to-account-for-195-million-in-amd-gpu-sales-coinaxis

http://www.slashgear.com/litecoin-mining-gpu-sales-spike-following-bitcoin-value-drop-off-14308854/

http://vrworld.com/2013/12/09/cryptocurrencies-are-causing-shortages-of-amd-radeon-gpus/

http://bitcoinist.net/amd-launches-gpuopen-potentially-huge-boon-for-cryptocurrencies/

Also interesting tease about external gpus's

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2016/02/29/amd-teases-external-gpu-announcement-hinting-at-universal-laptop-support/#77f9005746d7

Didnt AMD mention gpu mining in their announcent earlier this year?
Its a niche id tap for sure.

It was a crazy time GPU's were selling out due to miners... what did AMD do? They raised price.... and it still ran out for a while till it all kinda crashed.

This time with ETH is nothing like last time as far as effects on GPU sales. Just not the running out of cards as we saw long ago in the "old days".