Sapphire doesn't want miners to buy their graphics cards

The mining fever runs its course with many users wanting to buy a graphics card solely for mining. This business, which seems very profitable for miners, is not so profitable for those who just want to enjoy PC games. Sapphire is one of the GPU manufacturers that proves not to be comfortable with this situation, according to their latest statements at The Toms Hardware Show.

The head of Sapphire, Edward Crisler (PR Representative in North America):

“For many of us at Sapphire it is very frustrating that the cards don't end up in the hands of the players. Because we have built the card so that someone has a great gaming experience”.

Crisler added that many PC gamers today feel neglected by the GPU market, but argued that this is not the case.

“It is not that the market has abandoned us. It's just that everything has changed, and the market is still trying to figure out how to deal with this."

In this way, Sapphire recognizes that the cryptocurrency market has broken into the segment and that manufacturers are finding themselves in a totally new situation that they have never dealt with before. People who buy graphics cards not to play games, but to generate money through cryptocurrencies.

Nvidia is trying to divide the market by releasing its CMP variants and limiting mining for video game graphics cards, but it doesn't seem to be enough. Even Sapphire itself has launched exclusive mining variants, such as the RX 570 16GB HDMI Blockchain and the RX 470 Nitro Mining Edition. However, the company says this is not the solution.

“There are a couple of problems with that. First, you just pulled the GPUs that are available for gaming… Second, when the mining cards run out, they just go to buy the gaming cards, ”he said. "So developing a mining-only card is not necessarily a great idea because it doesn't solve the problem for players."

With this overwhelming logic, end this talk. It is possible that the solution is simply to layer the mining at the hardware level, as AMD did with its RDNA 2 GPUs. We will keep you posted.