NVIDIA Recommended Retailers: Do not sell GeForce graphics to miners
As previously reported, the end of 2017 to early 2018 graphics card market point of view, the mainstream level to the high end of the price soar, and even some users have sold the hands of the Vega 64, bought a brand new TITAN Xp Star Wars Collector’s Edition, but also have more money.
In this regard, AMD has said it will put more energy on the non-public version of Vega, hoping to slow down by their delivery.
According to wccftech, January 19, NVIDIA spokesman Boris Böhles also expressed his thoughts on the German media ComputerBase.
“For NVIDIA, gamers come first. All activities related to our GeForce product line are targeted at our main audience. To ensure that GeForce gamers continue to have good GeForce graphics card availability in the current situation, we recommend that our trading partners make the appropriate arrangements to meet gamers’ needs as usual. “
NVIDIA states that retailers have the freedom to follow or ignore its recommendations and that it can’t directly intervene in how they choose to run their businesses. This is where direct-selling by NVIDIA on its website plays a key role. The company can implement all the measures it sees fit to make sure that at least graphics cards sold directly by it, go to gamers instead of miners.
Reference: wccftech