The shortage of video cards due to the demand of miners may last until next year – Bits Media

According to forecasts of video card suppliers, demand from miners will remain high until at least the second half of the year 2021 of the year. And in the worst case, the shortage of video cards will remain until 2022 of the year.

Video cards remain a scarce and very expensive commodity, since miners Break any supplies at high prices. In recent months, not only individual video cards have begun to buy cryptocurrencies to buy cryptocurrencies, but also use laptops with discrete video accelerators.

The deficit of the video accelerators is not surprising - even during the correction of the cryptocurrency market in late February and early March, the NVIDIA RTX 3060TI video card recovery was in total 6 months. Moreover, if the ETH rate returns to $ 2,000, then the video cards will pay off for only 3-4 months. The more profitable the purchase price of video cards, the less time it takes for that, To recoup the farms and make net profit. Therefore, the current excitement can even exceed sales volumes 2017 of the year, especially, that manufacturers are already ready to increase production and perceive miners as a serious source of income.

In the case of the growth of the cryptocurrency market, the demand for video accelerators from the miners will continue and the deficit in retail stores will last until then, While mining cryptocurrencies will be just as profitable. And this process can drag on for a year or more, Since the complete transition of the Ethereum to POS this year is unlikely to happen.

Previously, NVIDIA reported
About that, What will limit the hashrate of the new RTX video cards 3060 and will launch special CMP chips for miners. But, As it turned out, Hashrate was limited only in some algorithms, and extract cryptocurrencies on RTX 3060 Still very profitable. Perhaps firmware will appear over time, allowing to circumvent these restrictions.