Disastrous drop in graphics card sales.
Well, it seems that the suppliers are weathering this storm of bad sales, which, apparently, is not very good. In a study of the Q1 2014 market (from January to March) it was clarified that graphics cards are losing the podium compared to integrated graphics, which in each new analysis increase their market share; a factor that could be due to the great graphic improvements present in the fourth generation Intel Core microprocessors " Haswell " and " AMD A-7000 Series APUs " Kaveri ".
But this does not end here, in subsequent studies of Q2, they reveal that this fall has increased. It seems that the graphics whose CPUs are based on AMD and NVIDIA have no output. The reason, these GPUs have been replaced by specialized cryptocurrency ASICs. ASICs are more efficient at mining bitcoins than GPUs. Hence they are so successful.
After a fierce war, in which ASICs at first mined better, but, they brought out the Scrypt algorithm that was specifically designed so that ASICs could not mine optimally. So people set about buying Radeon R9 290x in bulk. But, right now, the tortilla has been turned around again and the new ASICS overcome that difficulty, so the result of all this is that many Radeons are sold by Ebay at ridiculous prices, and this clearly affects companies like AMD in a bad image. How will it all end?
Source: www.techpowerup.com
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