Those 1080s look pretty much free these days.
At MSRP, 1070ti is a much better deal than the 1080, itās almost as fast and much cheaper. People missed that because prices inflated immediately upon its release.
Hell I paid that for a FE non-ti and never once regretted it.
Price is good. I really hate the blower style cards though. Hmn.
I think I paid $360 for my 1070 last Feb after a $20 rebate and it came with For Honor. Sold my 970 for $150 so that wasnāt such a bad upgrade.
The 1070ti is much faster than the 1070, itās pretty much a 1080.
No doubt, but for me I try to hit the middle. Going over $400 for a video card just isnāt something Iāll do these days.
So it was a moot point anyway. The 1070 Ti was never actually in stock except for a few minutes. Itās just been glitched all day.
Total side thing but really interesting(and long article) about mining and its effects on a small town in Washington with cheap electricity. Pretty amazing stuff. Shows how and why GPUās are nowhere to be found right now.
āThe commercial miners now pouring into the valley are building sites with tens of thousands of servers and electrical loads of as much as 30 megawatts, or enough to power a neighborhood of 13,000 homes.ā
This is truly fucking sad. Weāre destroying the world more quickly for magical imaginary coins that do nothing.
Wrong. Those imaginary coins let you buy meth, child porn, and sometimes even the unlock code for the ransomware on your computer!
That is a fascinating article, and the first Iāve read that did even a half-decent job of explaining how blockchain works.
Yes, great article Jason. Reading this it sounds like the more people who mine the harder it becomes to generate bitcoin and with halving day coming again in 2020 unless the price of bitcoin continually aligns then there will hopefully be a time in the future when margins are sufficiently cut that it no longer becomes viable to mine coins and still make a profit, at least at a consumer level if not at an industrial level.
Seeing used Vegas on eBay at the $700 Buy-It-Now threshold! If this continues, we might near MSRP in a few months.
Mining cards are around the corner it seemsā¦
I wonder what about them makes them mining specific?
Hopefully, cut-down CUDA-only cores that canāt be used as GPUs and thus sell much more cheaply.
Only 5GB of RAM on the card, compared to the 11GB that comes on a 1080ti. That should lower costs and alleviate production bottlenecks related to RAM supply.
Also, looks like a much more robust cooler than the blower-type that Nvidia normally puts on their reference cards.
They need to place explosives on the non mining cards so that if the card detects itās being used to mine and not game the explosives detonate.
Some interesting statements from nVidia:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chairman Morris Chang has recently said that he expects the company to see an on-year revenue growth of 10-15% in the first half of 2018 thanks to the demand from the cryptocurrency segment. The market watchers believe many cryptocurrency miners are likely to turn to procure ASICs from suppliers such as Bitmain.
Bitmain is ready to release ASIC products in April eyeing cryptocurrencies that has been relying on GPUs for mining and the move is expected to reduce minersā demand for graphics cards.
Policies from governments worldwide on cryptocurrencies and significant price changes also have weakened the returns for mining.
Seeing the trend, Nvidia has recently started placing restrictions on its downstream graphics card partners, forbiding them to publicly promote cryptocurrency mining activities or actively sell its consumer graphics cards to miners, the sources said. Nvidia hopes to shift its main sales target back to consumers in the gaming market, the sources added.
Nvidia also has further increased its GPU quotes recently, which the sources believe is meant to help cover the gap that may occur after GPU demand starts sliding.
Since profitability from graphics cards has been weakening, Nvidia and AMD have both been decelerating the developments of their new GPU architectures and prolonging their existing GPU platformsā lifecycle
Maybe some good news finallyā¦