The issue with GPUs at the moment is not just related to Crypto Mining but a lot of factors coming together from past years.
Btw. I disagree with the NVIDIA 1060 because I bought one for 150€ back in early 2019.
The primary issues at the moment are related to manufactoring chains and the more occuring bots bying the stuff out of the stores in instant speed. See the trouble on getting a PS5 at the moment.
Ok, we can fight those bot people with the need of setting up a user-account and limiting purchases to a small number for certain time but the manufactoring issue still remains. This is related to a set of causes, first one is that round about 90% of our hardware is produced in China, which is bad at the fact that.
- Situation is still difficult due to COVID
- Delivery is affected by global events like an accident in the suez canal
- China government can delay delivery for whatever reason
So the right way, which I hope is going to start sooner or later, is for the manufactorers NVidia and AMD, to build factories around the world in order to weaken the above list of causes. Focussing on centralized production is leading into a future where nobody can realy rely on having an adequate IT setup and this will affect anyone, not just gamers.
It was already very very hard to me getting a good CPU when my PC broke back in 2020, AMD Ryzen was sold out everywhere and the models from 2 years ago had nearly the price of a good Smartphone.
JoeJ said:
I wish we would move PC platform towards a console like form using APUs
I'm not a friend of console gaming for every game. There are games which play better on console and graphics isn't that bad here but some games and even if you really want RTX then a console might not be the golden solution for all of our problems. Tehy're the same as Laptops and suffer from the same issues which are related to the need of setting everything up in a small space.
I really prefer not to be decreased in performance because somthing is overheating in summer or bying a new Laptopt/Console every 2 years because CPU and GPU sitting near to each other affecting lifetim of both. I'm happy with my “Hot and big PC tower” because it might be big but thanks to good air management is everything but hot.
There is a reason graphics cards get bigger and it isn't because if manufactorers like creating clunky devices rather than the space needed for Chipset, RAM, GPUand cooling.
Going into a console based gaming market will also change how games are made in total. Not speaking of the politics of companies like Sony or Nintendo in order to get on their platform but it'll heavy increase the need for knowledge. Knowledge necessary to optimize the game to run on that limited hardware, the knowledge of the tricks and tweaks of the platforms and the knowledge of producing memory efficient assets. This would lead of a small but steady decay of the indie scene because those companies often don't have the knowledge and I don't want to have an environment of priviledged developers only!