Y esto del a mineria a beneficiado bastante a los fabricantes del GPU como muestyran los resultados de esta investigacion.
Este año, concreot en los ultimos meses, a increemtado 7.2%, cuando antes tenian solo 6.4%, y esto es resultado de que el ETHERUM, el algoritmo usado es mas rentable usarse en la GPU que en un procesador.
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/market_watchOverall GPU shipments increased 7.2% from last quarter, AMD increased 8% Nvidia increased 10%Year-to-year total GPU shipments increased 6.4%, desktop graphics increased 5%, notebooks increased 7%.
This is the latest report from Jon Peddie Research on the GPUs used in PCs. It is reporting on the results of Q2'17 GPU shipments world-wide.
Up to now, the GPU and PC market had been showing a return to what has been normal seasonality. That pattern is typically flat to down in Q1, a significant drop in Q2 as OEMs and the channel deplete inventory before the summer months. A restocking with the latest products in Q3 in anticipation of the holiday season, and mild increase to flat change in Q4. All, of that subject to an overall decline in the PC market since the great recession of ’07 and the influx of tablets and smartphones. However, this year, Q2 dGPU shipments were completely out of synch, and remarkably high, as shown in the following chart.
http://funkyimg.com/i/2wGty.pngAs the chart shows, this is the first time in over 20 years that Q2 has seen an increase in shipments, and never one this dramatic.
The big difference is the impact Bitcoin, Ethereum and other coin miners are having on the market.
Why Ethereum? There was a similar uptick in GPU sales for Bitcoin and Litcoin mining 2013. It drove up sales of GPUs and especially AMD GPUs because of AMD’s GCN architecture favored mining. Low cost application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) were then employed to do the job and that boom went bust, much to the relief of gamers looking for better deals on GPUs. Bitcoin miners who had built large GPU structures for mining, dumped their AIBs on eBay, cannibalizing the GPU market for a couple of quarters. Due to the architecture of Ethereum, that won’t happen.
Ethereum uses a different hashing algorithm to Bitcoin, which makes it incompatible with the special hashing hardware, ASICs, developed for Bitcoin mining. Ethereum’s algorithm is known as Ethash. It’s a memory-hard algorithm; meaning it’s designed to resist the development of Ethereum-mining ASICs. Instead, Ethash is deliberately best-suited to GPU-mining.
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Quick highlights * AMD’s overall unit shipments increased 7.81% quarter-to-quarter, Intel’s total shipments increased 6.31% from last quarter, and Nvidia’s increased 10.42%.
* The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs for the quarter was 146% which was up 9.57% from last quarter.
* Discrete GPUs were in 35.38% of PCs, which is up 4.02%.
* The overall PC market increase 0.12% quarter-to-quarter, and decrease -3.98% year-to-year.
* Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs increased 30.88% from last quarter.
* Q2'17 saw a decrease in tablet shipments from last quarter.
Matberu escribió:Llevo todo el verano esperando las rx 580, sabéis si amd va a volver a fabricarlas? o ya solo van a crear las rx vega de ahora en adelante? :S
Pues a saber, anterioromente RTG|AMD decia que VEGA sustituiria a POLARIS en todas sus gamas, pero ahora quien sabe que podamos esperar, pues no hay ningun comunicado oficial que diga que detendran su produccion, pero tampoco uno que diga que seguira produciendose.
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