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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/11 14:55:22
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small wonder video card prices have remained above MSRP for so long
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/11 20:15:54
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/11 21:18:24
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Some of the best algos to mine with nVidia cards are getting hit with ASIC miners, so I'm not sure nVidia will enjoy the crypto mining purchases they have been getting. Although we don't know what the 11 series architecture is for sure, so nVidia may drop some mining monsters (compared to AMD) and be back in the running, but these ASIC miners are starting to hit gpu mining hard.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/11 22:31:23
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Not surprised but I really wonder how many are sold to miners vs. sold to people who plan to eBay to miners. It seems like with coins being about half they where six months ago you notice a lot more sitting on eBay.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/12 04:50:05
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I would say most of us here would expect this. But, still, 289 millions is a very impressive number on mining reveneu from Nvidia.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/12 05:02:18
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The more money they make the more money can be poured into R&D for 2019 next gen video cards.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/12 09:09:56
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this makes it sound like nvidia sold all the cards directly, were really its the sheer volume of cards sold that made them that much. i would be interested to see AMD's numbers since they do sell more directly
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/12 10:02:36
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A small amount considering. Good that the GPU mining fad is finally going away.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/12 16:09:49
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That is a small percentage.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 06:49:45
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ty_ger07 That is a small percentage.
Around 3% of the total revenue. It is a nice and welcome boost for this year, but Nvidiia is not going to sink if next year cryptomining is not so popular, or if ASICs dominate that market.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 11:57:20
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Where's QuintLeo, the ultimate defender of all things crypto? I thought he said miners were not buying up GPU stock and causing supply issues lol... Oh wait, I know - NVidia is lying.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 12:30:35
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Nereus Where's QuintLeo, the ultimate defender of all things crypto? I thought he said miners were not buying up GPU stock and causing supply issues lol... Oh wait, I know - NVidia is lying.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 16:09:59
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Nereus Where's QuintLeo, the ultimate defender of all things crypto? I thought he said miners were not buying up GPU stock and causing supply issues lol... Oh wait, I know - NVidia is lying.
Umm.... the percentage? Hardly relevant. Looks like QuintLeo was onto something.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 17:00:41
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Nereus Where's QuintLeo, the ultimate defender of all things crypto? I thought he said miners were not buying up GPU stock and causing supply issues lol... Oh wait, I know - NVidia is lying.
Umm.... the percentage? Hardly relevant. Looks like QuintLeo was onto something.
Did you read the article linked in the OP? Here are quotes direct from NVidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Crypto miners bought a lot of our GPUs in the quarter and it drove prices up,”“I think that a lot of gamers weren’t able to buy into the new GeForce as a result.” Hardly relevant? Despite almost every article out there and NVidia themselves now admitting the demand from miners pushed prices up and made it hard for gamers to get cards, you still claim that miners had nothing to do with it (or were hardly relevant)? Seriously? Care to explain this, and how you know more about NVidia's business than NVidia does? I really don't understand this apparent cognitive dissonance with some miners being so incredibly defensive about this, to the point of flat out refusing to acknowledge facts that come straight from the horse's mouth. It's like a form of TDS. Heck, if I was a miner, I'd be quite happy to say, "yeah, we miners bought a huge number of GPU's and the supply couldn't meet the increased demand." So what? Why is making such a basic and obvious statement such a huge problem? Would it make me a bad person somehow to admit that? Nope. Sorry, I really don't get it, maybe you or QuintLeo can enlighten us all as to why this is such a huge issue to admit something so obvious. ..not miners? yeah, it was probably aliens.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/13 17:31:58
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Nah, it was the gamers buying up the video cards that made it more expensive for miners to get video cards. Seriously though, gamers act like they are entitled to be the only people that should be able to buy video cards and calling for the death of cryptocurrency I find very selfish and disturbing. nVidia and AMD simply couldn't meet the demand.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/14 15:36:26
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Crypto sales of 3% only cover mining specific skus. Ministers buying retail or in bulk from AIB partners still counted as gaming. In the end high demand from both gamers and miners drove prices up. Since no one releases specific numbers, we don't know how many more cards they sold versus previous cycles. And Nvidia doesn't make percent of retail sales, they only make money of the chip sales which is way less than the MSRP.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/14 16:55:18
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Correct, their numbers are skiewed due to retail sales all counted as gaming unless otherwise noted, which I would assume is never.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/14 17:50:16
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Nereus Where's QuintLeo, the ultimate defender of all things crypto? I thought he said miners were not buying up GPU stock and causing supply issues lol... Oh wait, I know - NVidia is lying.
Umm.... the percentage? Hardly relevant. Looks like QuintLeo was onto something.
Did you read the article linked in the OP? Here are quotes direct from NVidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Crypto miners bought a lot of our GPUs in the quarter and it drove prices up,” “I think that a lot of gamers weren’t able to buy into the new GeForce as a result.” Hardly relevant? Despite almost every article out there and NVidia themselves now admitting the demand from miners pushed prices up and made it hard for gamers to get cards, you still claim that miners had nothing to do with it (or were hardly relevant)? Seriously? Care to explain this, and how you know more about NVidia's business than NVidia does? I really don't understand this apparent cognitive dissonance with some miners being so incredibly defensive about this, to the point of flat out refusing to acknowledge facts that come straight from the horse's mouth. It's like a form of TDS. Heck, if I was a miner, I'd be quite happy to say, "yeah, we miners bought a huge number of GPU's and the supply couldn't meet the increased demand." So what? Why is making such a basic and obvious statement such a huge problem? Would it make me a bad person somehow to admit that? Nope. Sorry, I really don't get it, maybe you or QuintLeo can enlighten us all as to why this is such a huge issue to admit something so obvious. ..not miners? yeah, it was probably aliens.
Yes I read the article. The numbers they published for miner sales is simply a small percentage of the total sales. That's all I am saying. NVIDIA may say that miners had a significant effect, but I ignore that statement as a cop-out if their numbers do not support that statement. You can argue whether the numbers are accurate, but then you too would be questioning the "horse's mouth". Don't accuse me of questioning the horse's mouth when you too are picking and choosing which statements to believe. Any miner knows that video cards have been unattractive for the last 5 months since the mining difficulty is too high and is too risky because the expected return on investment is way too low. If you think that the price gouging which has occured primarily during the last 5 months is due to miners, I think you are ill-informed and have accepted the notion without considering the facts. When video card mining was most profitable, the price gouging was minimal. The price gouging didn't really hit a peak until one, two, three, and four months after the point that investing in video card mining was an unwise decision. Explain that. I think that during a brief window in time in mid to late 2017, NVIDIA (and AMD) made a lot of money from mining sales. It seems like it was a rather small percentage compared to their total sales, but was still a significant boost in profit -- especially during that 1/2 to 1/4 of a year. Beyond that, I think it was a lot of other factors and greed which caused shortages and gouging. At some point, half a year later, you have to start finding other explanations and villains.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/14 22:45:22
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ty_ger07 Yes I read the article. The numbers they published for miner sales is simply a small percentage of the total sales. That's all I am saying. NVIDIA may say that miners had a significant effect, but I ignore that statement as a cop-out if their numbers do not support that statement. You can argue whether the numbers are accurate, but then you too would be questioning the "horse's mouth". Don't accuse me of questioning the horse's mouth when you too are picking and choosing which statements to believe. Any miner knows that video cards have been unattractive for the last 5 months since the mining difficulty is too high and is too risky because the expected return on investment is way too low. If you think that the price gouging which has occured primarily during the last 5 months is due to miners, I think you are ill-informed and have accepted the notion without considering the facts. When video card mining was most profitable, the price gouging was minimal. The price gouging didn't really hit a peak until one, two, three, and four months after the point that investing in video card mining was an unwise decision. Explain that. I think that during a brief window in time in mid to late 2017, NVIDIA (and AMD) made a lot of money from mining sales. It seems like it was a rather small percentage compared to their total sales, but was still a significant boost in profit -- especially during that 1/2 to 1/4 of a year. Beyond that, I think it was a lot of other factors and greed which caused shortages and gouging. At some point, half a year later, you have to start finding other explanations and villains.
Thanks for your comment. As others have posted, almost all retail sales are counted as gamers, so that 'small percentage' you mention is certainly wildly inaccurate - but in the opposite direction to what you seem to think. Sure mining is not so attractive now.. and guess what? GPU's are available again. Coincidence? I think not. In summary:
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/15 06:35:47
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It just took 5 months to restock after the miners used up all of the supply? Hmm. Ok.... Like I said, there were obviously other factors at play. The gouging and lack of supply peaked 3 to 4 months after miners stopped buying video cards. You seem to keep ignoring that fact. Cryptocurrency started falling on its face before the start of 2018. The lack of supply and gouging peaked in March and April of 2018. More than 5 months later, it only now has started to level off. There is a lot of data to support the notion that miners had little to do with the lack of supply and gouging. Independent researches have estimated that miners contributed about 6% to the video card demand for both NVIDIA and AMD. NVIDIA now released numbers which indicate miners contributed about 3% to the NVIDIA video card demand. Mining statistics agree that the video card cryptocurrency production didn't increase in late 2017 by the huge amount you wish to believe. Everything points to other factors as the primary contributor. Please let it rest until you are willing to actually do the research to come to a valid conclusion; you obviously have not yet done so. There is no evidence to support your claim; only circumstantial evidence if you completely ignore the timeline -- as you obviously have.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/15 07:53:42
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Lead times for Chip fabrications are getting longer as more advanced prcosees come online. The newer processes ramp slower and reduce overall capacity in the short term. So if demand is higher than Nvidia forecasts it takes longer to adjust orders. It not like they have a constant supply of chips coming. And yes, the quarters results show a small mining percentage. But that's just direct mining specific sales, that doesn't count retail sales to miners (which by necessity are smaller groups) and not very impactful on supply/demand.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/15 08:53:04
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OK, We all have different points of view - lets stay on topic I just hope Nvidia uses the extra profit in that 9.7 Billion sales to increase the R&D to build even better GPUs
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/15 16:06:48
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In March of 2018, as EVGA was trickling in small batches of cards for sale, customers reported receiving brand new cards with 2016 and 2017 manufacture dates. There was obviously a combination of manufacture/supply issues, demand, and trickery. Blaming miners was a huge scapegoat which some people still believe. Any customer who purchases the video card deserves the video card. We are all customers and none of us is better, purer, or with better intent than anyone other customer. Quit accusing people of being part of a villainous group and quit blaming each other. The reason why I say mining is a scapegoat is because no one is able to identify anyone or any group as being miners. There is a mystical villainous mining group believed to be out there somewhere which no one is able to identify. Sure, there are some miners, but this large impactful group of miners is simply absent in any statistic you study. So, scapegoat.
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Re: Nvidia Finally Unveils Crypto Sales
2018/05/16 21:23:26
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With the average video card costing about $700 that's only 412 857 graphics cards, heck let's make it $500, that's still under 600 000 cards. That's not a lot of cards. Seriously. There are more cards running ETH alone, which is AMD heavy. Current ETH network hash rate is 269830 gigahash/s which works out to approximately 9 FREAKING million rx580 cards at 30 MH/s each after bios modding. For the record, a 1070 ties an rx580 at 30 MH/s but is seriously stupid to use for ETH. Zcash is where it's at. If I did the math right, you'll see this is just a drop in the bucket compared to team red. So shut up you entitled gamers and realize Nvidia is the reason why cards were so scarce and all they did was play all of us against each other to save face. So who's the real enemy here? Your fellow PC enthusiasts, or the corporations who colluded to keep stock low, and raise prices to reap record profits?
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