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Cryptocurrency miners preferred AMD cards, actually. And not the latest ones, but Polaris (4x0, 5x0), which provided the best efficiency wrt power, performance
by vetinari 8y ago
Cryptocurrency miners preferred AMD cards, actually. And not the latest ones, but Polaris (4x0, 5x0), which provided the best efficiency wrt power, performance and price.
It's gamers, that prefer Nvidia. Nvidia has better optimized driver stack, although they also sometimes play fast and loose.
- shittyadmin 8y agoOriginally, yes, in recent years however that changed. Look at the cards used for ZCash, Monero, etc.
- shmerl 8y agoMiners are increasingly moving to specialized ASICs anyway. Which is good for gamers who needs GPUs :)
- azinman2 8y agoAny anyone doing deep learning.