Percentage of GPUs sold that are used to mine?

QuintLeo

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 12, 2017, 08:57:56 PM

you can still make money with 290's

You can still make money with HD 7850s - and 7870s and 7870XTs and 7950s and 7970s - and even 7750s in a pinch though those don't make a LOT.

I do concede my R9 290s make more than any of the HD series (except possibly a HD 7990).

ETH probably has more GPUs working on it than ALL other crypto combined - and while ZEC is a Nvidia stronghold a lot of AMD cards work well there too, especially the older 2GB and less cards that can't do ETH anymore.

The recent modification to the AMD / GF agreement blows the cap off AMD's "can produce" max number, if they are willing to pay a bit of a premium to do so.

Tmdz

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Eth has 1.5 million alone

Etc ~ 100k

Zec hard to say that will be mostly nvidia

then all the little coins that have say 5-20k gpus each

So it is a good 2 million gpus mining, that number could easily swell to over 4 million with the crazy profit the next months and beyond.

AMD can produce 4 million units a quarter estimated, but nvidia can pump out 13 million a quarter so we are still a small sector for discrete graphics.

For AMD mining is trouble sum because they don't want to push loyal customers over to team red, for short term profits if shit hits the fan in crypto. I am sure in the boardroom there's talks where they want to capitalize on the gold rush but don't want to risk getting stuck with a bunch of stock they can't sell.

philipma1957

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Quote from: adaseb on June 12, 2017, 08:55:21 PM

Last year AMD sold 10 million RX cards and about ~1.5 million are mining so its a low %

15%

should grow to 25% max so in about 2 years growth will go flat.

mining gpus last longer then asics.

you can still make money with 290's

adaseb

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Last year AMD sold 10 million RX cards and about ~1.5 million are mining so its a low %

Elder III

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Yep, treat your hardware gently and you can recoup most of the costs of it by selling it used later on eBay. Always remember that a bricked card ain't worth crap to anyone. Wink

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Quote from: Atomicfear on June 12, 2017, 08:21:59 PM

Hello,
I'm curious if miners have surpassed gamers in the amount of GPUs bought. Does anyone know? I saw that there is an amd card dedicated to mining. Does this mean the card makers want us to quit taking cards away from gamers? I feel like the makers could get away with increasing the price to a point only miners would pay it. Or, do the gpu manufacturers think that mining is a short-term ordeal and they don't want to upset their base?

Just some musings.

Thanks for any replies.

Atomicfear

I would never buy a mining card. only gaming cards.
I sell gently used cards to gamers all the time.
I never flash my card I never run them past 70c.
I make a lot by selling 3 to 4 months old cards to gamers.

Atomicfear

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Hello,
I'm curious if miners have surpassed gamers in the amount of GPUs bought. Does anyone know? I saw that there is an amd card dedicated to mining. Does this mean the card makers want us to quit taking cards away from gamers? I feel like the makers could get away with increasing the price to a point only miners would pay it. Or, do the gpu manufacturers think that mining is a short-term ordeal and they don't want to upset their base?

Just some musings.

Thanks for any replies.

Atomicfear

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