Allen
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On the competition front: Lack of GPU chips for graphics card manufacturers and knowing that bitcoin type mining will account for most AMD sales is taking its toll.
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Gigabyte and MSI Back Out From Offering Custom Radeon RX Vega 64 Graphics Cards – Focusing Towards The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Instead
MSI and Gigabyte will not be offering any custom Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU but instead focus on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti which will be out in October..
..there will be a potential mining market going after these [AMD] GPUs as soon as they launch..
There is some hope as AMD exclusive partners such as Sapphire, XFX, Powercolor may offer new and fresh custom designs of the RX Vega lineup in November but so far, we have seen no details from them...
AMD has a "well rounded" GPU. It does both games and non-game computations very well at a reasonable price. Turns out that's a handicap if professional (defined as do it for profit) bitcoin miners buy all the cards (because of computational "bang per buck") and the unavailability turns off gamers who need the FPS (but not the computations, usually).
