that means about 370,000 3080.s. were added in 7 weeks. so 7.1 x that = 2.62 million gpus a year. Just for mining.
could that be correct?
Due to the fact that every single computer-related community, even large sites like anandtech, tomshardware, etc. are talking about mining this means that every single 3xxx 68xx that is sold it is actually used for mining, let it be professional miners or gamers. Due to the hype and media cover, everybody knows about mining and everybody is mining. So yes, the vast majority of new hashrate is from 3xxx 68xx ... ASIC can't just come ouf of the blue ...
Nvidia are fully loaded already I guess that's why they have the gut to make such move, if no one is buying their gpu for any reasons and now they are selling big because of miners they won't be doing all this rubbish, even every hardcore gamers are now mining with their pc, I haven't play any pc game since mining becomes profitable, I don't blame them, let intel gpu become a thing maybe they will rethink again