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So does that mean AMD is about to lose their number one customers? China has almost a monopoly on mining due to access to low to no cost electricity. The miners
by baldfat 9y ago
So does that mean AMD is about to lose their number one customers? China has almost a monopoly on mining due to access to low to no cost electricity. The miners preferred AMD Graphic cards and make AMD cards hundreds of dollars more valuable on EBay.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3199257/components-graphics/why-amds-radeon-graphics-cards-are-almost-impossible-to-buy-right-now.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3199257/components-graphics/...
- nullnilvoid 9y agoGPU's are still used in mining. But the majority of large-scale miners use ASIC chips to mine coins. ASIC chips are just more efficient and powerful. They are designed only for mining.
- Nursie 9y agoGPUs are used mostly for ethereum, ZEC, Monero etc now. I get the impression that the massive crypto-currency datacentres in China are mostly BTC and LTC ASIC operations. It could be good for gamers if BTC crashes and ETH and the others crash alongside it, making mining unprofitable. FYI in the last couple of months price pressure seems to have switched to the nVidia GTX 1070 cards as the Radeons have been overinflated or just unavailable, and the 1070 has a good price/performance ratio for mining too...