I bought a 1080 TI a while back for around $750. Bitcoin surged and the same card was $1300 for a few months. Now it's back to $750ish My FPS stayed pretty stable though
What point are you trying to make?
Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
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Re: Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
#112I bought a 1080 TI a while back for around $750. Bitcoin surged and the same card was $1300 for a few months. Now it's back to $750ish My FPS stayed pretty stable though
What point are you trying to make?
It's really not nvidia's fault. They're in a really difficult position here to try and absorb all this new business space without stretching too thin or using too much velocity.
But in terms of processing graphics, the hardware is great. Using gpus for mining digital money hurts people using gpus for graphics, which was sorta the point in the first place. Maybe not now, but it used to be.
I don't mean to make the argument that graphics are more important than digital money, but it's like the Bitcoin community has made zero effort to be introspective about the impact it has on people who just want to play games or whatever. Or even power usage in general.
Bitcoin is such a weird phase of tech history in that its completely counterintuitive to altruism. I always imagine the Internet wanting to try and always move towards a better, more utilitarian future and benefit the users in a collective sense, but Bitcoin doesn't seem to be about that anymore.
Not parent commenter, just my two cents.
Re: Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
#113The author is shorting Nvidia stock (as he / she discloses at the end of the article). So, while this article attempts to be objective, I just don't believe it can be.