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by strictnein 3288 days ago
That's not quite accurate. You can get Nvidia stuff, sometimes at MSRP, sometimes a little over. It's the AMD hardware that's impossible to find.
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onestone 3288 days ago
Well no, actually. Good Nvidia cards are also nearly extinct, because they are actually still profitable for Ethereum mining. So when people couldn't find AMD cards, they settled for bying Nvidia.

Unlike the situation with Bitcoin a few years ago, Nvidia cards are ok for mining Ethereum (something like 40-50% lower hash rate than AMD, but still very much profitable).

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iak8god 3288 days ago
That's true. The hashrate/$ and hashrate/watt for the AMD cards is much more favorable for Ether mining.
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