I wonder what the heck Nvidia and AMD will do.
This is honestly not a good problem to have.
In the short term, it had increased demand because of people’s dumb get rich quick schemes, but at the same time, it’s risky to increase production, because by the time you cAtch up with demand the bubble might burst leaving you holding the bag.
But at the same time, the people buying your cards are largely not buying them to play games with, so you’re not really building brand loyalty, and potentially you’re losing a lot of future customers who would upgrade or build a PC but instead will his say fuck it and get a PS4 pro or X1X instead.
It probably works better for AMD, because their cards are not all that competitive right now, so it gives them some breathing room to figure out how to make GPUs that don’t suck.
Lastly, they will have to roll over these sales numbers next year, and that will be hard as shit if the crypto market crashes in the next year, or really even if it just sort of flatlines. At some point the hashes will become harder, on average, and gpu mining will become unprofitable, unless you believe that there will
Be a steady stream of viable new currencies for the foreseeable future.
That just seems to defy logic, considering that nobody actually uses crypto currency to do anything other than to sell it each other on Coinbase’s internal ledger, because the transaction costs are too high.