nec209 Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 Why are video cards so costly now and every year they are going up and up? It is the worse year for gamers or anyone buying video card now because of the high cost and every year they getting more and costly. what is causing the high skyrocketing price of video cards?
nec209 Posted February 12, 2018 Author Posted February 12, 2018 9 minutes ago, CharonY said: Cryptocurrency mining. What is crypto currency mining? what are they using these video cards for?
Sensei Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) Hi-end gfx cards have 1024-2048+ CUDA cores.. They can do any tasks requiring extensive math calculations programmers ordered them to do. https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan-z/specifications "GTX TITAN Z GPU Engine Specs: 5760 CUDA Cores" Edited February 12, 2018 by Sensei
Endy0816 Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 50 minutes ago, nec209 said: What is crypto currency mining? what are they using these video cards for? The production of new currency(as a reward) for essentially validating transactions. Like Sensei says, GPU's can be used to handle the processing.
nec209 Posted February 12, 2018 Author Posted February 12, 2018 7 minutes ago, Endy0816 said: The production of new currency(as a reward) for essentially validating transactions. Like Sensei says, GPU's can be used to handle the processing. So the math calculations are processing the transactions? Why is this GPU intessive?
Sensei Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, nec209 said: So the math calculations are processing the transactions? Everything what computers do, is math. GFX just have many cores. It's cheaper to buy one GFX card with 2048 cores, instead of 256 computers each with 8 cores CPU on board. Edited February 12, 2018 by Sensei
koti Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 2 hours ago, nec209 said: What is crypto currency mining? what are they using these video cards for? This might come as insightful: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ethereum-effect-graphics-card-prices,34928.html
nec209 Posted February 13, 2018 Author Posted February 13, 2018 40 minutes ago, koti said: This might come as insightful: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ethereum-effect-graphics-card-prices,34928.html The article does not say what they are mining. Like is it calculations the math calculations processing they are processing for the transactions?
koti Posted February 13, 2018 Posted February 13, 2018 33 minutes ago, nec209 said: The article does not say what they are mining. Like is it calculations the math calculations processing they are processing for the transactions? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Mellinia Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 TLDR : Mining with commerical cards are much more profitable than using specialized hardware due to electrical fees.
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