OH No, this is gonna be bad, what will happen to GPU miners it will go down to algo and the current of price? i've heard also 20 series nvia will released not compatible for the mining holy crap.
Lol on the 20 series. Nvidia answers to shareholders. They talk like crypto wasnt the bulk of sales but thats bs. They will work fine for crypto or watch their share price and sales tumble. I honestly dont believe this one bit.
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For Nvidia, crypto sales HAS in fact been a fairly small factor - particularly during 4Q 2017.
The only reason that crypto sales was a significant factor in 2Q was that AMD high-end Polaris cards gouge pricing got into 1070 or even low-end 1080 territory making the 1070 a viable option for cost-effective ETH mining.
The CURRENT Nvidia shortage appears to have been caused by Nvidia having TSMC switch production out of Pascal GPUs into Volta GPUs "around the end of the year" then getting hit by an unexpectedly VERY GOOD sales season especially on high-end gaming machines.
4Q 2017 is the FIRST TIME in several years that PC "number of units" sales INCREASED year-over-year, while all of the forcasts were for a DECREASE - and a lot of reports cited "high end systems" being a primary driver in that sales increase during the Christmas Sales Season.
Even RIGHT NOW, there are probably less than 1 million GPUs mining ZEC, which is BY FAR the biggest GPU count in Nvidia-friendly coins, while ETH which is mostly AMD territory is pushing well past the 7 million GPU range at this point.