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?
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Gamers don't order pallets
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).
Except nivdia was prioritizing crypto sales
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
Stores do. Nvidia likely thought it wasn't going to get looked at.
Wholesalers who cater to gamers would
Sure, but I'm talking about
You are forgetting that nvidia released, and continually resupplied (during a ‘drought’), MINER-ONLY DISPLAY-PORT-LESS cards for MINERS AND NON-GAMERS EXCLUSIVELY.
This is fairly analogous to banks looking the other way at money laundering.
It points to the need for either more strict reporting and purchasing controls within the firm or more regulation.
Banks have tightened their internal policies to avoid more active government intervention to reduce money laundering.
Investors will get the analogy. A bank that let money laundering go unchecked and is facing scrutiny and a need to change protocols would see an adverse reaction from investors. No reason why Nvidia would not experience the same.
Dam gaming revenue just sucks I guess.
Price cards so nobody can afford them
Reduce supply so nobody can find them
gaming revenue sucks!
People can afford them just not gamers.
Yeah miss me with that frame gen, ai filter, $5000 bullshit. Give me raw performance so I can render home grown crunchy frames at high rates. Not buying another Nvidia card until they get it together.
But how else can Leon get yassified?
Yeah its pretty shit that's what why I'm still on the rx6000 cards from amd. Give me raw raster + a ton of vram
Remember: This is only what we notice and know about. The dark numbers are usually higher with every organized criminal activity.
LFG DUDE. I WAS THERE WHEN THIS WAS DISCOVERED GAMER STEVE (and/or maybe coffeezilla?) REPORTED ON IT. I THOUGHT NOTHING WAS GOING TO BE DONE. LFGGGGGGGGGG