The emergence of cryptocurrencies reaches all sectors of the economy. One of the most affected, and not necessarily bad, will probably have been the graphics card manufacturers (GPU). Indeed, more and more miners are throwing themselves on the most recent GPUs, often for huge orders for mining farms. The collateral damage in this case? The gamers who see the prices soar ...
More and more expensive graphics cards
For a long time, building your own PC is a key component in a gamer's life. The solution, besides being economical, allows to know a little better the internal functioning of a PC. However, for a year, the price of graphics cards is exploding. The main reason is the explosion of the cryptocurrency market and the mining business that is intrinsically associated with it.
As you can see, the price of all high-end graphics cards has been seriously impacted by ever-increasing demand. Some countries have already been out of stock, and Nvidia is showing the GTX 1080 TI out of stock on its own site.
Nvidia to help gamers
According to an article in the German media ComputerBase, Nvidia has recently made a request to most major resellers of its graphics cards.
"Players are the top priority of NVIDIA. All activities related to our GeForce product line are focused on this primary target group. Given the current situation, to ensure that players continue to benefit from the availability of GeForce graphics cards, we recommend that our business partners take the appropriate steps to meet the needs of players as they usually do. Boris Böhles, spokesperson for Nvidia
Despite this announcement, Nvidia's teams made it clear that the final decision would be made by traders, pointing out that they did not have to comply with this "recommendation". The manufacturer has indeed declared never to interfere "with the freedom and independence of trade."
It is also clear that the company would not go so far as to shoot itself in the foot by banning mining. In this regard, we told you in a newsletter a few weeks ago, Nvidia has now banned the use of its software in the construction of big data centers ... With the exception of blockchains! To put it simply, it is forbidden to create data centers, but it is allowed to undermine!