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Another couple of news, but this time not game related:

 

AMD GPU Shipments Increased Big Time in Q4 2017, NVIDIA and Intel Decline – Over 3 Million Graphics Card Sold To Crypto Miners in 2017
https://wccftech.com/amd-nvidia-intel-q4-2017-gpu-market-share/
The latest GPU market report from Jon Peddie research has been released and shows that AMD gained a good chunk of the GPU market share during fourth quarter of 2017. At the same time, both NVIDIA and Intel witnessed decline in GPU market share.

When breaking down the numbers, it looks like AMD won this quarter big time with a market share increase of 8.1%. At the same time, NVIDIA decreased -6% while Intel decreased -2%.

The report also states that 3 million discrete graphics cards were consumed by miners alone during 2017 which amounted to $776 million in sales. (...)AMD was the main benefactor of the total mining hardware sales of $776 million as reported in the article.

 

>>AMD gained a lot of market share, but we know it's not "real" as plenty of their cards ended up in mining rigs, not consumers/gamers. Also, despite the big increase over the last quarter, AMD remains lower than it was one year ago, while Nvidia is up.

 

NVIDIA claims that GPU prices will continue increasing through Q3 2018
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-claims-that-gpu-prices-will-continue-increasing-through-q3-2018/
Things are not looking good for everyone wishing to build a new gaming PC. As we all know, the prices for all modern graphics cards have sky-rocketed over the past few months. And according to NVIDIA, this situation will not be resolved soon as the prices will continue increasing through Q3 2018.

As NVIDIA told Massdrop, the pricing in the market will continue to go up through Q3 of this year. In other words, don’t expect to buy a cheap high-end graphics card anytime soon.

According to the green team, the two main reasons causing the GPU prices to increase each and every month are the mining craze and the vRAM shortage.

 

>>F*ck!