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AMD & NVIDIA to launch new GPUs for cryptocurrency mining market

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AMD and NVIDIA are both facing problems with the stock of their power efficient and cost effective graphics cards due to the popularity of cryptocurrency mining. In order to satisfy the demand for such solutions and prevent shortages of gaming cards for normal customers both AMD and NVIDIA are planning to announce special editions of their popular graphics cards designed specifically for cryptocurrency mining.

NVIDIA is said to launch GeForce GTX 1060 with GP106-100 GPU, a custom edition for mining. This card would lack display connectors and most likely not support any gaming at all. According to our sources, these cards, unlike normal editions, would only have 90 days warranty. The good news is that these cards will be cheaper than same models for gamers. These cards will be sold by add-in-board partners.

AMD is also planning Polaris based model for mining, except the details are yet unknown.
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https://videocardz.com/70162/amd-and-nvidia-preparing-graphics-cards-for-cryptocurrency-mining

Interesting GTX 1060 6GB used GP106-400-A1 GPU and GTX 1060 3GB used GP106-300-A1 GPU both graphics cards has outputs and up to 3 years warranty. Custom GTX 1060 Miner used GP106-100-A1 GPU will have no outputs, probably will have 3GB GDDR5, passive coolers with 3 months warranty will probably cost over £100.

I wonder if it will be possible to switch graphics from Intel IGP to GTX 1060 Miner to play PC games through IGP output?
 
Seems risky business for either of them. The bubble could burst at any moment and they would be left with a load of inventory they couldn't shift.

It's been years since I Iast mined but if I remember right, memory speed had next to no difference on hash rate so I'd image the memory on these cards would be so crippled to reduce cost that gaming wouldn't be an option.
 
Martini1991 said:
AMD need GPU's available to buy before focusing on miners
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The entire point of the miner cards is to alleviate the demand for the normal gaming GPU's so people are able to buy 570/580's instead of miners snapping them all up.
 
Finners said:
Seems risky business for either of them. The bubble could burst at any moment and they would be left with a load of inventory they couldn't shift.

It's been years since I Iast mined but if I remember right, memory speed had next to no difference on hash rate so I'd image the memory on these cards would be so crippled to reduce cost that gaming wouldn't be an option.
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ACtually it's a great idea, currently when lets say RX580s become bad for mining, or the mining thing tanks again making it not profitable then the market gets flooded by RX580s and the ones in stock in stores get very difficult to sell. If miners buy these passive, lower memory, no output versions they are buying them for mining but nothing else. For miners the idea is to buy a card and pay it off them make profit so while selling on is useful, getting slightly cheaper cards without hte output/memory will increase their profit anyway.

It would be kind of a genius move, both because gamers will see more 'gaming' cards in stock and then neither company gets as bad a backlash with a flooded second hand market(well not as bad, they've already sold a shedload of cards for mining).
 
Martini1991 said:
If they can't make enough now. Having more models won't help
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People have gotten weird about buying stuff now, if it's not in stock many people simply won't buy. So one guy might want a card, wait a month without seeing it in stock and think there is no stock. In reality 200 are turning up to every store every few days, but they are going to pre-orders so they never appear in stock. If people just order they'd get their card pretty quickly.

Either way, a lack of RX580s if there really is one, doesn't matter too much. I'd hope they would be reducing production of Polaris to increase production of Vega and Zen.
 
Pretty stupid idea, I mean lets look at it logically, for every "mining orientated" GPU they produce that's a regular GPU they didn't produce so it won't help with regular GPU availability at all.
 
I wonder how much cheaper these cards will be? IMO it will have to be a fair bit cheaper otherwise it might not be worth buying due to the 90 day warranty vs say a 2-3 year warranty plus the limited resale factor will limit its appeal.
 
Add to that they will have terrible resale value as you can't game on them and terrible warranty, the only way AMD/Nvidia are going to get anyone to buy these is if they sell them at a loss lol.
 
ubersonic said:
Pretty stupid idea, I mean lets look at it logically, for every "mining orientated" GPU they produce that's a regular GPU they didn't produce so it won't help with regular GPU availability at all.
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I can only assume they are going to slap on all the chips that don't pass the binning phase for the GPU market. Drop the clocks, simpler board design, no outputs etc.

This lets them put the good GPU's in the gaming cards, gets rid of the crap ones, and stops the market being flooded with 2nd hand GPU's later on.
 
This is only going to push up prices of gaming cards as these mining cards can not enter the gaming world as they will have no outputs.

Could this be the reason we have not seen any Vega cards yet. Are they all going straight to mining or as AMD calls them err professional cards.:D
 
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Kaapstad said:
This is only going to push up prices of gaming cards as these mining cards can not enter the gaming world as they will have no outputs.

Could this be the reason we have not seen any Vega cards yet. Are they all going straight to mining or as AMD calls them err professional cards.:D
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What a mess. Its like watching politicians desperation chasing votes.
 
Finners said:
Seems risky business for either of them. The bubble could burst at any moment and they would be left with a load of inventory they couldn't shift.

It's been years since I Iast mined but if I remember right, memory speed had next to no difference on hash rate so I'd image the memory on these cards would be so crippled to reduce cost that gaming wouldn't be an option.
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Workstation headless cards for compute/labs and that kind of thing are a thing - they'd probably take a bit of a hit but could probably shift remaining stock through universities, etc. avoiding a loss. Will be something of a second hand market for compute use as well - I know people who buy up loads of old playstations, etc. for DIY server farms that would buy these.
 
pandem0nium said:
I don't think it could be a 90day warranty for us while still in the eu.

This could be a cheap option for a second card for cf / sli.
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EU warranty regs only apply to individual consumers not business to business, they can word it so your agreeing to buy the "professional" mining card as a business user.

They will almost certainly disable CF/SLI for that reason (as it's useless for mining).
 
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