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> which was the intention Neither me, _Understated_ or you know exactly why nvidia did what they did. What we do know, is that ultimately they answer to their
by capableweb 6y ago
> which was the intention
Neither me, _Understated_ or you know exactly why nvidia did what they did. What we do know, is that ultimately they answer to their shareholders and they have to show profit. Their motivations for why they do the things they do, can usually be boiled down to: "because it makes us more money".
Nvidia probably doesn't care where the graphic cards go, miners or gamers, as they still make the same amount of money.
- __s 6y agoYou can want brand loyalty. If Nvidia cards are soaked up in mining & game devs start optimizing more heavily for AMD gpus, suddenly Nvidia loses market capture of gaming gpus & end up at the whim of crypto. Miners are also much less brand loyal, someone comes out with a better hashrate/$ card & you've lost your customers So there's arguments for miners not being a diverse customer base that would encourage wanting to keep gamers in line. But I'm saying this without knowing any details, so I don't know
- zokier 6y agoThere is also the thing that nvidia wants to get people on board the RTX train as quickly as possible, that is fairly long term strategic initiative. And miners absolutely do not help there.
- albertgoeswoof 6y agoGamers will be around in 10 years, miners might not be
- capableweb 6y agoFunnily enough, that's what everyone said about gamers 20 years ago.
- navaati 6y agoAs compared to who ?