Can someone explain to me why would any miner buy this instead of a proper graphic card ? U potentially could be throwing all of those directly in to the bin when difficulty of mining is raised and even if they do sell - those chip factories are going to have a tough time doing that and still finding some time in making everything else for actual gamers - so this potentially would not change the situation of emptiness in shops.

Lets see if turns into another thread about Killers, Hackers, Drug and Slave Dealers 🙂

Can someone explain to me why would any miner buy this instead of a proper graphic card ? U potentially could be throwing all of those directly in to the bin when difficulty of mining is raised and even if they do sell - those chip factories are going to have a tough time doing that and still finding some time in making everything else for actual gamers - so this potentially would not change the situation of emptiness in shops.

Says in the article: +36% hashrate compared to regular GP106, IP5X, continuous use fans. NV/AMD would surely prefer selling these SKUs to miners over regular GPUs, in order to prevent 2nd hand flooding afterwards. Maybe Asus/Sapphire are getting some incentive for building them.

Lets see if turns into another thread about Killers, Hackers, Drug and Slave Dealers 🙂 Says in the article: +36% hashrate compared to regular GP106, IP5X, continuous use fans. NV/AMD would surely prefer selling these SKUs to miners over regular GPUs, in order to prevent 2nd hand flooding afterwards. Maybe Asus/Sapphire are getting some incentive for building them.

How they achieved better hash rate ?

How they achieved better hash rate ?

tighter memory timings maybe? If they just overclocked them, it would be a waste of time because any serious miner looks to lower the temps and electricity costs, so, they lower the voltage first and see where that gets them. PS. It doesn't really matter at this point. Big miners have their rigs built already, smaller ones were the last wave that emptied the used cards market...I am saying that personaly I don't think there is much market left for these.

I wish I understood how graphics cards are used for mining.

Put simply, the same way any other device is used to crunch numbers: processing power and efficiency within.

It's quite possible that these are being released with mining optimized bios right from the factory. Some miners mod the bios themselves and you can get ~30-40% increased performance from it. That claim of +36% performance sounds like just about the right increase going from a stock to modded bios. The stickler here is the rumor that they will only have 90 day warranty... which if true makes them worthless crap imo.

I wish I understood how graphics cards are used for mining.

http://i.imgur.com/elvEKdb.jpg [spoiler]You are welcome[/spoiler]