AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching

Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by josalhor on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:48AM (#25986512)

> But we are not in a crypto bubble now

In the last year bitcoin is over 200%. Litecoin is almost over 100% (in fact, since April it is over 200%). I have no horse in this race, but I am not sure I would call it "not a bubble".

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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by onli on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:17AM (#25989959)

I meant this as "No GPU cyrpto mining bubble as no gpu mining takes place". Bitcoin and Litecoin are not mined with GPUs anymore.

I was under the impression that no one bought GPUs for mining anymore in general, as it's a waste of money compared to specialized hardware. During the last crypto bubble I noticed a lot of regular people building mining PCs, this time I noticed nothing of that sort. However, https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-financial-analysis-suggest... suggests I might have been wrong about that.

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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by littlecranky67 on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:03PM (#25990477)

But there was a BTC halvening in May 2020 roughly doubling the amount of computing power required to mine same amount of coin. But I am not an expert on the mining economy so I have no idea if GPU mining is still a lucrative business.

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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by imtringued on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:57AM (#25987248)

It's a bubble with some room to go even higher. Obviously it's going to pop one day but not today.

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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by Jonnax on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:38AM (#25987135)

Hasn't these shifted to mostly ASIC?

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Re:AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching by josalhor on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:21AM (#25987352)

I think you meant to reply to another comment.

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