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  • peterfares - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    The cost of these cards is going to have to be very significantly lower than consumer cards or else why buy them? You can always recoup some money selling consumer cards when they're no longer profitable to run but once these cards aren't profitable to run then who will bother with them? With no video outputs they're useless for gamers. Only a niche part of a niche use case will want them.
  • shabby - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    Even the ones with outputs will be a hard sell, who will want to buy a card knowing it was run 24/7?
  • ahtoh - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    What would be wrong with that cards?
    I can only think about fans that have relatively low resource, and these would be possible to replace.
    So why not, if the price is right.
  • grant3 - Friday, July 7, 2017 - link

    Anyone who knows anything about solid state electronics. Crysis 8 will be out before these cards die from constant use.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    No thanks, I already got 99 mining in runescape.
  • Ikefu - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    I really hope they price these below consumer GPUs to take the heat off the market. I start thinking about investing in a new GPU and there either is nothing in stock or the prices are completely outrageous from the crypto-mining spike. Good encouragement to wait to see how Vega stacks up come the end of July I guess.
  • Strunf - Friday, July 7, 2017 - link

    I don't think it will change anything, AMD only makes a certain amount of GPU chips and the AIB only a certain amount of GPU cards, so in the end they will just make less gamers grade card to make more mining cards.
  • dookie411 - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - link

    If you read the article, you would understand that AMD's production capacity is not the issue at all. The problem is the lead time and turnaround of when it hits the market. Even if they produce more GPUs for miners, if the consumer gaming demand is consistent, they will simply increase GPU production. As someone who's worked in manufacturing, companies don't just give up one market segment for another, especially when there's lower margins to be had in the newer one. When one customer (some company) asks for a big order, we didn't just tell all the other customers we're out of stock, we still supplied them and made up excuses for why it took slightly longer to handle the logistics while increasing overall production capacity.
    That said, I think cryptocurrencies are detrimental to the economy in other ways, and it's stupid to be wasting so much energy on crap which provides little to no benefit to society at large.
  • Magichands8 - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link

    Doesn't make much sense to me. I figure the pre-built system shown above would probably cost at least $3,000. Just checking a mining calculator you can see that it would take at least 5 months to earn back the money it cost to buy the system. And all the while you get the benefits of diminishing returns as the mining difficulty increases and the risk of a currency crash while you wait to break even.
  • egmccann - Tuesday, August 8, 2017 - link

    If these are cheaper and would work for it (IE, they're essentially the video cards minus video output, not overspecialized,) I can think of some uses for them... rendering, specifically.

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