California-based technology company NVIDIA has asked retailers to give their sales priority to players instead of crypto money miners.
Flock to Graphics Cards
Although there has been a recent decline in the market for cryptocurrencies, crypto money miners are still able to make profits at a considerable amount. In 2017 , the cryptographic currency market grew at an extraordinary rate globally, leading to a significant increase in the number of cryptocurrency miners. At the moment, crypto-money miners are able to obtain faster and relatively higher investment returns than mining operations.
With the increase in the number of crypto miners, there is a global demand increase in the graphics cards, and accordingly, they have played a large amount in the prices. For example, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 prices were normally priced at more affordable prices. EXAMPLE GTX 1080 's Founder Edition ' s first appearance in as 2900-3100 while the regular version offered for sale between TL 2449 TL was sold. But at the moment, getting a GTX 1080 is almost equivalent to a moderate-good computer total. At the moment the GTX 1080 8gb is 4000 TL. The 11 GB Ti version is 5000He finds TL. Of course, this has an effect on the exchange rates in our country, but the GTX 1080 which is sold for 499 dollars abroad also can find 1250 dollars . This increase in the price of the same product without any technological innovation is, of course, upsetting the most computer players. Players are rightfully asking NVIDIA and AMD to find a solution to this problem.
Analysts believe crypto money mining operations will need more and more processing power. And they anticipate that the price increase will continue because investors will need more graphics cards to expand and strengthen the crypto money mines. Game enthusiasts think that these high prices on video cards can harm the computer gaming market.
A Possible Solution?
According to some sources, NVIDIA is telling big retailers that they want their video cards to be given priority to sell players instead of crypto money miners. Some retailers, such as Amazon, have already begun implementing some restrictive measures, such as allowing customers to purchase only one video card per order. But experts do not believe that many retailers will listen to NVIDIA's request. And they think retailers' aim is to sell to cigarette money mining or computer gaming, the buyer who offers the most money to their video cards anyway.
NVIDIA spokesman Boris Böhles explained this decision during an interview:
"For NVIDIA, gamers always come first. All activities related to our GeForce product group are targeted at the masterkit. In the current situation, we encourage our trading partners to make new arrangements to meet the needs of the players as always, in order to ensure that GeForce users continue to use good GeForce graphics cards. "
In June 2017 , some rumors emerged that NVIDIA had developed a new display card that was to make a one-off crypto-money mining. But no other information has yet been published about the company's ambitious project to solve the problem of crypto-money-miners.