We have known for months now video card production is not keeping up with demand. The harsh reality is that production travels more or less quickly, but there is still a gap that has not yet been filled and that has an impact on the price of the final products.
Video cards are born above all to play and perform specific tasks in the world of work, but the fact that they are no longer simple GPUs but GPGPU, that is of the General Purpose GPUcapable of performing generic calculations in parallel at very high speed, it almost always makes them useful for other uses, such as cryptocurrency mining.
With disruptive actions like Nvidia’s LHR solutions removed, when the investment-to-earnings ratio turns in the latter’s favor, miners don’t mind buying cards in bulk and manufacturers, not so much AMD and NVIDIA as AIB partners. , gloat. No wonder, but as a gamer it “hurts a bit” to see that Cryptominers Bahrain released a video his instagram in which we see several dozen Radeon RX 6000 cards from Sapphire, Powercolor and XFX stacked, ready to go into a mining rig, not a gaming PC.
In the video you can see solutions that could make more than a few enthusiasts happy, from the RX 6700 XT to the RX 6900 XT, but XFX also supplied the dealer with the “old” RX 580 8GB, still valid in mining thanks to the amount of memory. Unfortunately, at a time of high demand, seeing dozens of boards taking “alternative routes” to those they should have taken is certainly not nice. Here it is clear that the AIB producers are marching on it, but the hard reality that for them a sold card, whether it is to a gamer or a miner, is always a sold product and it does not matter how it is used. After all business is business.