ASROCK's expecting GPU demand from cryptocurrency miners to drop | OC3D News (overclock3d.net)
 
ASRock expects its sales to grow sequentially in Q2 2021, despite component shortages and an expected decline in cryptocurrency hardware demand from Chinese miners. 

Right now, ASRock expects GPU shipments to improve in the second half of this year, as supply constraints for substrates and other materials are alleviated. This should come as great news for Radeon fans, as this means that AMD's RX 6000 series GPUs should be more readily available in the second half of 2021. 

Currently, China accounts for a large portion of the world's demand for cryptocurrency mining hardware, be it in the form of ASICs or repurposed PC hardware. China's declining demand can be seen as part of a broader, global trend. Today's off-peak cryptocurrency values and increased mining difficulties has made cryptocurrency mining a lot less profitable. Beyond that, Ethereum's planned move to a non-mining Proof-of-Stake system will kill Ethereum mining sometime this year. 

With Ethereum being one of the most profitable cryptocurrencies to mine, the cryptocurrency's move away from traditional mining will cause many cryptocurrency mining operations to stop or lower their intake of new mining hardware. This will lower the demand for graphics cards from cryptocurrency miners and may cause some mining operations to shut down completely. 

If the GPU market sees increased supply and lowered cryptocurrency-related demand in the second half of 2021, gamers should start to expect increased availability and more reasonable prices for new graphics cards. That said, all it takes is another rise in cryptocurrency pricing to cause the world's demand for graphics cards to spike again, so it is too soon to say that the days today's graphics card shortages are numbered. 
 
Personally I don't see that there will be any improvement in GPU supplies for months to come. 

flasher4q
As for me I'm in no hurry for a new card, I will sit back save my money for another day for the next series card!!

i am sure in 2 years (more or less) the market will be flooded with these current gen burned mining gpu cards
and i am aiming for the 4000 gen as well ( along DDR5 and pci-e 4.0)  but honestly..  i dunno anymore if i wanna keep this up.
 
its getting very expensive and AAA games aren't worth all the money anymore..
 
my GF is right in a sense of way...
if there is no AAA games or enough AAA titles... in the market that justifies thousands of EUROS invested in pc parts >> then why buy such hardware?
instead she prefers a 400 euros to 600 euros console and be done with it... away from all this hassle.
 
i may be stuck with my current set up for a LONG time.
 
let's see but i think ASROCK is been too optimistic about this. 
mining aint going away.. scalping aint going away either!

charlesborner

I'd been hoping to get a waterblock unit (not an AIO).  And was willing to drop the exorbitant MSRP.

just don't do like i did...  i was stupid
DO NOT buy a useless 120mm AIO for an i7
 
go AT LEAST 240mm AIO or above!
 
 
 

I really doubt the Ethereum switch to PoS is going to happen this year. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen until the second half of next year.

pol-delta
I really doubt the Ethereum switch to PoS is going to happen this year. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen until the second half of next year.

But that's about the time I'd expect this stupidity to clear up.

charlesborner

pol-delta
I really doubt the Ethereum switch to PoS is going to happen this year. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen until the second half of next year.

But that's about the time I'd expect this stupidity to clear up.

It's not going away. There are now 3 coins to takes Ethereum's place. This is with just a RTX 3070.
 

Miguell

kram36
 
It's not going away. There are now 3 coins to takes Ethereum's place. This is with just a RTX 3070.
 

 
What?
 3 more?  are you serious??   this is never gonna end... is it?

Yep and Nvidia's LHR has ZERO affect on these coins.

Yeah but what price will they set for the 40 series cards? Think they'll make it more reasonable again? I don't.