• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Nvidia sold Ampere direct to miners

Intel ARC is not ment for Miners :D - When that come out, its going to be a nice Budget card for low/mid range and I hope they get their Drivers & support right. We need Intel to give AMD & Nvidia a run for its money in the next 3/4 years.
 
Jace007 said:
Intel ARC is not ment for Miners :D - When that come out, its going to be a nice Budget card for low/mid range and I hope they get their Drivers & support right. We need Intel to give AMD & Nvidia a run for its money in the next 3/4 years.
Click to expand...
Well, ATM that WhatToMine website shows all cards are not meant for miners.
The mined per day in USD (before paying for any electricity) rates today are:
3060 Ti (think this was the most popular during the boom): $1.24
3080 $2.03 (think this preset is for the FHR version)
3090 $2.46
6900 XT $1.28 (same for the 6800XT and the plain 6800).
6700 XT $0.95
5700 XT $1.14
etc.

Point being, that when a $400 MSRP 3060 Ti would take nearly a year to pay for itself (for those with free electricity), then Intel have missed the mining bubble. Since they are taking their time to release, maybe Intel can hit the next mining bubble.
 
arknor said:
this isnt new news it was known for ages, AMD did the same, it's how both companies had huge margins
Click to expand...

I remember there being more rumours on the Nvidia side.. one specifically of selling die's directly to miners who then had the cards manufactured through the normal channels (from MLID that one I think).
 
It's worth pointing out on the last Nvidia investor call they were asked directly about the impact of mining on their sales and the response was 'its hard to gauge'. If their selling directly miners they would know exactly what the demand is so saying 'its hard to gauge' fly's in the face logic.
 
I just cant get my head round this whole outrage because they sold to "X" when someone thinks they or another type of customer should have had it. They are a business. They may have a product you like but that is where your relationship with that company ends. Plain and simple. You are a customer and they owe you nothing. They can choose who they sell stuff to or just flat out not care who buys their stuff but ultimately they just want to sell stuff. Just because you put them on a pedestal and like the product they sell does not mean they now owe you something.
 
Last edited:
Its just the impact its had on average Joe whos was saving for months to get his hands on a brand new GPU, and because of the miners they used all sorts of methods to buy the GPU quicker than you can say Hello world. As these Card were ment for Gamers.
Maybe the Manufacturers marketing Teams on both Camps were slow to develop & market separate GPUs for this Class of consumers.
 
I imagine those cards sold to miners were at a significantly reduced price to the over inflated few they let out to retail as well.
 
Freddie1980 said:
It's worth pointing out on the last Nvidia investor call they were asked directly about the impact of mining on their sales and the response was 'its hard to gauge'. If their selling directly miners they would know exactly what the demand is so saying 'its hard to gauge' fly's in the face logic.
Click to expand...
yea and thats why they got fined 5.5million
www.theverge.com

Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners

Investors “routinely” asked about its crypto sales.
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com

700,000 GPUs Shipped to Cryptominers in the First Quarter of 2021

Miners making it rain
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
 
Troezar said:
They all on ASICS now?
Click to expand...

BTC mining started in 2009 on cpu , about 1 year later gpu mining software came out first by Artforz (jly 2010) and privately - but then this post appeared :

Generating Bitcoins with your video card (OpenCL/CUDA)

Generating Bitcoins with your video card (OpenCL/CUDA)
bitcointalk.org

and the first public gpu mining code was out. The race was on for more power and in 2012, Butterfly Labs launched the worlds first ASIC (luanched in the same sense that gpu makers launch cards on day 1 - paper launch). The first real asic to market in volume was the Antminer S1.

GPU mining died that day , and the race for gigahash then terrahash and now petahash began
 
Harlequin said:
BTC mining started in 2009 on cpu , about 1 year later gpu mining software came out first by Artforz (jly 2010) and privately - but then this post appeared :

Generating Bitcoins with your video card (OpenCL/CUDA)

Generating Bitcoins with your video card (OpenCL/CUDA)
bitcointalk.org

and the first public gpu mining code was out. The race was on for more power and in 2012, Butterfly Labs launched the worlds first ASIC (luanched in the same sense that gpu makers launch cards on day 1 - paper launch). The first real asic to market in volume was the Antminer S1.

GPU mining died that day , and the race for gigahash then terrahash and now petahash began
Click to expand...
Thanks, the annoying thing is I heard about Bitcoin very early on and dismissed it as a bit daft. I could have been rich by now but truth be told if it had hit a decent price I would have sold well before four figures let alone five!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom