Sapphire believes the price of AMD graphics will stabilize by the end of the year
The prices of AMD graphics cards should normalize until the end of the year, according to sources at Sapphire, who claimed to have fixed the stock problems.
Although Computex 2018 has already ended, it is still leaving us the last blows and in this case they come from the hand of Desaprir. One of those responsible for the company, has spoken about the stock problems generated by the large cryptocurrency mining farms, which were generated at the end of the year. The company has worked to develop specialized solutions for mining and separate this market from its gaming solutions division. The complicated task has meant that the company can meet the needs of both fields.
Sapphire has managed to satisfy the needs of the gaming market and the mining of altcoins.
The company claims that right now they have the same number of graphics for gaming and cryptocurrency mining. They highlight that mining has stagnated in recent months, but they believe that demand could rise again, as many cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, change their protocols, to become resistant to ASICs.
Right now the demand for graphics for mining has stabilized and we see NVIDIA solutions, they have dropped a lot in price, but AMD prices have remained. Scott Herkelman, from AMD, has stressed that the prices of its graphics solutions should normalize in the coming months, while at NVIDIA, I am already have fallen significantly.
"It's getting closer, but the time has not yet come for retailers to accept that stocks are here to stay, that their margins can remain intact and that they can start to drive down the prices of individual graphics cards."
The trick is that retailers have nothing to do with the problem, prices have skyrocketed because brands have directly sold to the large cryptocurrency mining farms, since there is no retailer in the world that has a thousand, two thousand or the graphics that are to supply a large mining farm. Shifting the blame to retailers is very cynical, on the part of AMD.
Source: DVHardware
