AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings

Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by Nursie on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:46AM (#15548252)

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.

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Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by shmerl on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:59AM (#15550652)

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

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Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by Nursie on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:23PM (#15552682)

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.

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Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by shmerl on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:26PM (#15552727)

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

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