During the last months we have published several reports regarding the rise in demand for graphics cards and the impact of the mining in this industry. This huge demand is good for manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, however they aren't able to produce enough GPU volume for the entire demand. Since miners are buying dozens of graphics cards, the PC gamers can't buy any of them since are usually all sold out.

Back in June we have seen the first Mining Edition graphics cards released from ASUS and MSI. This "accelerators" have been produced only for mining in order to give a small break to the gaming graphics card market, however this idea didn't work. At the moment the gaming graphics cards are still used by miners. PC gamers and enthusiasts would like things to change as many graphics cards are selling for more than double their MSRP.

We have checked the impact of the mining over a wide range of consumer graphics cards. We all know that the most used graphics cards for mining are the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Radeon RX 570 and Radeon RX 580 8GB. Furthermore even the AMD RX Vega 56 and 64 have been used lately. According to Geizhals, the price of any GTX 1060 3GB and 6GB have increased by 15% and 25% respectively on average from the launch.

On AMD the situation is even worse, for example the AMD RX 570 and RX 580 cost 60% and 50% more respectively. We have checked the high-end series as well like the AMD RX Vega 64 and we have seen a price increased by 20% on average from the launch. We have monitored several graphics cards from few different manufacturers and the price impacts are similar around the world with some small variations.

For this reason, NVIDIA suggests to limiting the number of graphics cards ordered per customer. While Caseking has set this limit to two, other e-tailers like Newegg is doing nothing to discourage miners, selling GTX 1080 cards in six-packs. During the next weeks we will see if this "directive" from NVIDIA will have any influence on the market.



Source: Geizhals