I think they are still used for mining or at least were used until very recently. I see a lot of crypto miners for sale with cards like 3060 , so it looks like the market for them is still there.
Maybe a lot of people that are buying these graphics cards now are "retail miners" even though it is more profitable to use a purpose-built mining board.
Either way fuck crypto. I just wanna buy a mid-range gpu that can play games from 5 years ago. Even those are wildly overpriced.
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I think they are still used for mining or at least were used until very recently. I see a lot of crypto miners for sale with cards like 3060 , so it looks like the market for them is still there.
But then again, I don't know shit about mining.
Bitcoin miners use special made cards but smaller coins like Ethereum are still profitable to be mined with GPUs
Thanks that makes more sense, I try not pay attention to cryptocoin stuff
It also depends on the market. If a coin doubles in value, it can become profitable to mine it with less efficient hardware.
Maybe a lot of people that are buying these graphics cards now are "retail miners" even though it is more profitable to use a purpose-built mining board.
Either way fuck crypto. I just wanna buy a mid-range gpu that can play games from 5 years ago. Even those are wildly overpriced.