Yes, I mean games. In GPGPU market AMD is popular as well though. Miners buy Vega GPUs like hot cakes, it even creates a shortage. Also, CUDA lock-in will be undermined by Vulkan becoming the new common basis for compute. And AMD hardware is better for it and has more raw power, there is no question about it.

I haven't noticed a Vega shortage, are you sure?

Vega is loud and power-hungry, and expensive The last generation of AMD card was snapped up by miners, I've not heard of it happening with Vega.

There was Vega shortage for some time, but now it looks better. Huge demand from miners clearly affects it.

AFAICT here in the UK there was a very limited first week release, followed by a restock and since then it's not been an issue.

I am genuinely interested in whether miners are really buying these. Have you any reason to think they are?

I couldn't find much when I looked, beyond speculation about how amazing they might be (but turned out not to be). AFAICT for ethereum you're better off with nVidia 1070s which can cost about 75% as much, have about 75% of the hash rate, and use under 50% of the power.

That's what I've heard from others about the shortage reason. I didn't specifically research mining topic.