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caffeinade said:

JEMC said:

Long time, no see! I'm glad to have you back.

Were you jocking or did you already heard the rumor? https://wccftech.com/rumor-nvidias-gtx-2080-flagship-graphics-cards-will-be-priced-significantly-upwards-of-699-msr-up-to-1500/

Nvidia will probably position a GPU as a crypto card at the high end.
Handle it like they do with the Titans, and take all the profit for themselves.
Leaving the AIB partners to handle the gaming cards, which will probably be made irrelevant to miners by crypto cards.

That is of course assuming that Turing and Ampere are both real.

For all I care, I hope they launch a new line of card just for crypto miners, so we can have our cards back at normal prices. And by a new line I mean that, several mining cards with different price points to catter all possible miners, because only 1 mining card at the high end could not solve the problem because gaming cards could have a better ratio of investment.

Besides, there's another problem for both AMD and Nvidia: with newer cards launching soon, miners will jump on them and we could see a situation where the second hand market gets flooded with their used cards, bringing prices down and maybe affecting sales of new cards. After all, how many would buy a 2070 that performs like a 1080Ti for 1,000 $/€ when you could buy a used 1080Ti for 400 €/$?