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I think a big reason crypto exploded is tied into prices of graphics cards. Anyone else think so? Miners use them to generate coins, and there was a huge shortage of them. The cards released in 2020 were mining monsters, it makes sense that miners scooped them up. The limited supply left for consumers drove up prices 200-300% above MSRP. The graphics card price inflation nearly mirrored crypto.

Now the cards are coming back down in price because in part, China shutting down miners. Now there's a huge used card supply, and sales have hit a dead end. This drives the price of cards down, along with the fact next Gen cards are half a year away. Prices have to come back down to earth and lo and behold crypto follows right along.

Also curious that Blackrock and Vanguard have controlling shares in both AMD and Nvidia. Shows that they heavily manipulate the markets.

I think a big reason crypto exploded is tied into prices of graphics cards. Anyone else think so? Miners use them to generate coins, and there was a huge shortage of them. The cards released in 2020 were mining monsters, it makes sense that miners scooped them up. The limited supply left for consumers drove up prices 200-300% above MSRP. The graphics card price inflation nearly mirrored crypto. Now the cards are coming back down in price because in part, China shutting down miners. Now there's a huge used card supply, and sales have hit a dead end. This drives the price of cards down, along with the fact next Gen cards are half a year away. Prices have to come back down to earth and lo and behold crypto follows right along. Also curious that Blackrock and Vanguard have controlling shares in both AMD and Nvidia. Shows that they heavily manipulate the markets.

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What does this non sequitur have to do with the price of graphics cards trending with crypto? Nothing at all?

Just explaining how it works. It is theoretically possibly for crypto demand to drive up the demand and price of graphics cards, but this doesn't mean that crypto in return are affected by graphics cards.

I say 'theoretically' because for years now most of the major cryptos have not even been mined with graphics cards, but specially constructed devices called ASIC mining chips or FPGA mining chips.

With this in mind usually graphics cards would only be used to mine new and niche cryptos or cryptos designed on purpose to be hard to make ASICS for (though ASICS are usually made even for those in the end I believe).

I guarantee no one is mining Bitcoin with graphics cards these days, not anyone even half serious at least.

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The compute units on GPUs are second to none, at a commercially available level.

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Look just wiki this stuff if you don't believe me. GPUs are more general purpose than ASICs. ASICs are chips made ONLY to do crypto mining. Just one giant slab of chip running a single algorithm at the hardware level.

For example a GPU would "waste" space for memory ram. An ASIC would not, all that space would just be more SHA256 units.

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https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/cryptocurrency-to-mine-with-gpu/

A GPU is a preferable option even when crypto is mineable with a CPU since that multiplies the earnings. With GPU crypto mining, you can hook up to 9 GPUs while for CPU; you can use two unless it is virtual CPUs.

Graphics Processing Units are the most common method of mining cryptocurrencies than even the most powerful ASICs or the lower-end CPU miners. We can still mine hundreds of cryptocurrencies using proof of work algorithms with these devices, and today, they are the entry mining devices for most people. No wonder the cost of GPUs is still high.

You're right in the sense that serious miners will use more dedicated hardware, however you can't deny the versatility of GPUs and their compute units. DLSS and raytracing is extremely computationally expensive, and the fact you can link GPUs in series via PCIe tethering, makes it easier to set up multi GPU systems, than multi CPU systems.