Nvidia asks video card retailers to give gamers priority over miners
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KissSh0t
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RealNC
It could be nvidia is honest about this, but in a cynical way. Maybe they're afraid that the stockpiling of GPUs by miners might result in the used hardware market hurting their future sales, once the miners go and offload a crapload of GPUs for very low prices.
Probably not, but the thought just crossed my mind.
Solfaur
The situation is dramatic really. The biggest store here has 0 (ZERO) 1070s available, 1 (ONE) crappy Gigabyte 1080 which costs more than a 1080Ti did at launch, 3 crappy Palit 1080Tis which cost over 1000 euros (and will probably be gone in the next hour)... even 1060 prices are insane, but at least there is some availability there.
The worst part is, I don't see this getting better anytime soon. It really, REALLY sucks to be in need of a gaming GPU now. π³
fantaskarsef
Good idea to limit sales to miners, then again it's neither forceable onto them, nor would it solve the problems. Seperate mining cards from gaming card lines, that might help, but requires more R&D and the OK from AMD/Nvidia to do so.
Like it read's from Nvidia, it is a cynical PR stunt. Shameful.
nizzen
fantaskarsef
Kaarme
fantaskarsef
RealNC
cryohellinc
Segment your Client base. Miners are B2B clients, Gamers are B2C clients.
Release Miner cards / Gamer cards.
Limit B2C cards mining performance on Firmware/Hardware level for New and Future generations of cards.
B2B versions will have no limitations.
Current generation of cards will still have issues, no way around that, however future should normalize the situation.
fantaskarsef
WhiteLightning
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Nvidia cant keep up with the demand ? i can only lol at this. π
JonasBeckman
Solfaur
fantaskarsef
I guess they'll just do as usual, sell their stock away, no extra productions. We already know that TSMC has their capacity sold the minute they put it out, and lots of it is to ASIC miners or so I've read. So I can't imagine Nvidia paying for the limited production time to keep making Pascal cards when Volta's launching... they could sell more Volta cards if they would not do it, and usually they're just a bit more expansive than what they could ask for a 1080Ti for instance. Also, usually Nvidia's shipments are abundant for their releases, or at least in general.
But I'm seriously worried about AMD, they just sell their cards like nothing... expect miners to go crazy about anything they put out this year, and as soon as AMD does release something, everybody that wants an AMD GPU for gaming should order themselves twice as many as they need, just to be sure to get one card. And we have already known about limited quantities of AMD shipments at release prior to last year's situation, where even though mining was not that much of a thing across the popular culture, you still could end up not getting an AMD GPU in the first weeks of launch. This problem will only become more severe in the future, if AMD does plan releases like they did in the past...
SHS
The only way they every put an end to this is flood the market with video card and keep that way
0blivious
This bubble is going to burst faster than some think. Within a couple years, I think this will go back to pretty normal as the mining craze dies off. I am glad I got our x2 1070s back when they were released. I'd be pretty aggravated if I were in the market to buy a GPU right now.
Of course, I could be dead wrong and mining goes batsh!t and effectively kills the custom gaming PC market. Either way, miners will always have a special place in he|| for me for a myriad of reasons. Thi$ is only one of them.
H83
All this to say that Nvidia is going to do nothing about miners...
Also in Portugal the mining craze seems to almost non existent because the prices are basically the same as before. But i donΒ΄t know about the overall availability of the cards.
DeskStar
Priority is out the window when these cards of yesterday cost $3-400 more than they did at their original launch price.
Such a sad scalping industry we live in today... Hope this changes for Vegas' release as I am still holding o to these original TITANs that are still screaming performances in 4k!!
DeskStar
I truly hope this bodes well for us gamers..... Although with big companies and dollars involved I am going to assume that it will go well for the ones lining their pockets with all of them dollars...