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I wonder if this will get the Crypto-mining people interested too? I am really looking forward to them having more specific hardware to waste their money on, so
by jimnotgym 8y ago
I wonder if this will get the Crypto-mining people interested too? I am really looking forward to them having more specific hardware to waste their money on, so we can return to buying GPU's for gaming at a sensible price!
- acrossthepond10 8y agoIdeally the increased demand from to crypto-mania would be channeled to fund R&D for Graphics & AI chips but AFAIK its mostly the middlemen (distributors and retailers) who pocket these premiums.
- swerveonem 8y agoThe more difficult the hash the stronger the given blockchain. Faster chips is not what users of crypto benefit from, we want larger networks of chips no more powerful than those imagined by the blockchain creators.
- sanxiyn 8y agoMost GPU mining blockchains can be obliterated by hash power moving from Ethereum. It is ASICs that are protecting smaller chains.
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- gzu 8y agoThey would be good for Monero and Aeon mining
- icelancer 8y ago>> I am really looking forward to them having more specific hardware to waste their money on That's not how it works. You won't make GPUs that suck up all the demand while you get good gaming GPUs. If it can process stuff fast - either in computation or in memory speeds - then cryptominers want it, and so do you. The card you wish to exist simply doesn't, and if the cards are good, then they are profitable, which means they buy more of everything. Most intelligent GPU miners have a diversified farm of Nvidia and AMD cards in some proportion to cover the specific algos that are good on each platform. Wouldn't hold your breath.
- rdlecler1 8y agoIf anything, more money to chip makers means more incentive to build better chips. Gaming will benefit from these advances.