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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

They're complaining that the revenue was filed under gaming, but crypto miners bought gaming GPUs. How would Nvidia have possibly been able to separate those purchases from regular gamers?

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neither did many of the miners. There was pretty famously a near-universal shortage of GPUs for several years because crypto miners were buying so many cards - online, direct from the manufacturer, even big box stores; they drained them all. Most of those would be indistinguishable from a normal purchase (a lot of miners only bought one or two cards; there were just a lot of crypto bros looking to get rich).

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago

Except nivdia was prioritizing crypto sales

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76468/cant-buy-new-ampere-gpu-thats-because-nvidia-sold-them-to-miners/index.html

Sure a number were sold through gaming distribution handles, but that was more scalpers than crypto I suspect.

All the crypto farms were buying in bulk

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Stores do. Nvidia likely thought it wasn't going to get looked at.

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