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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

I think it's not even that good for AMD, because those cards aren't used for gaming and, thanks to all the surveys and that stuff, what publishers and devs see is gamers using more and more Nvidia cards.

Well I was referring to the RX vega that's coming out eventually not the Vega that's already out.

I know, and those are the cards I'm talking about.

If Vega is a success among miners and they buy lots of them, the gaming marcketshare will only change in favor of Nvidia (because their cards aren't as productive as AMD ones), and that will make the gap between AMD and Nvidia that we see in Conina's Steam Stats grow more and more. And the same will happen with the data that publishers and developers collect through their games when they scan our PC to know what's the best setup for the game in our machine (because I think they send that data to the publisher to know, for example, what kind of optimisations/fixes should be given a priority). 

So yes, if Vega is a success among miners, AMD will make money from their cards as they'll sell all they have, but that will hurt them in the long term because pub/devs will focus more and more on optimising their games for Nvidia's hardware as that what their data tells them that most gamers use.

QUAKECore89 said:
Watching this video atm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_oHQPWRWnQ

That's the same video Chazore posted earlier.