Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin, surged in value over the past year as a result of investor interest.
As cryptocurrencies rise and graphics cards have also risen sharply as a result of a shortage of retail inventories, AMD or Nvidia's mid- to high-end graphics cards are in short supply due largely to the massive purchases by cryptocurrency miners for bitcoin and similar Cryptocurrency mining machine.
Statistics agency Polygon reports Some of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards should cost around $ 380 (2403 yuan), but are now over 80% more than $ 700 (4427 yuan) due to inventory shortages.
Cryptocurrency miners use a large number of graphics cards to solve the mathematical problems required to verify payments and create new bitcoins on the web.
Due to network design issues, the amount of bitcoin is fixed, requiring more energy per bit of bitcoin to be mined, resulting in an increase in demand for more powerful graphics to address all cryptocurrency issues.
Graphics card pricing has made it harder to build gaming PCs, especially out-of-the-box graphics cards such as the GTX 1060 or GTX 1070, pushing up the price of more powerful graphics cards.
Nvidia's GTX 1060, GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and AMD's Radeon RX 570, 580, Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards have all been affected in recent months.
Nvidia is advising its retailers to give priority to PC players rather than miners, but retailers are only interested in profit margins, so simple advice is unlikely to lead to real change.
Some retailers are limiting miners' purchases of graphics cards, and Polygon reports that Micro Center offers discounts for PC players who buy graphics cards with other components, Micro Center accused miners of high demand and vendor-limited shipments , Resulting in a shortage of the entire industry.
Mining has clearly affected the global pricing of graphics cards and looks unlikely to end soon unless a graphics card supplier can meet the needs of the market, or newcomers to PC may be delayed from purchasing new ones.
They are deciding whether to build a mid-market PC or a PlayStation 4 Pro or Xbox One X. For years, players had to endure the price ramifications of RAM, and as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fluctuate, the card is clearly going to be the perfect PC The latest bottleneck
