AMD Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards, particularly the RX 580 and 570, have been out of stock for weeks now owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze. The market had shifted away from GPU mining a couple of years back after several China based companies launched specialized ASICs that were much faster and more power efficient at resolving the block chain equations necessary to mine Bitcoin and Litecoin, the Gold and Silver of cryptocurrencies.
However GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence over the past little while due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistent coins. Chief among which is Etherium which has seen its price more than triple in a matter of months. AMD's Add-In-Board partners have caught on to this and have already started directly advertising to miners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:12PM
These manufacturers are some dumb ass bastards. So sick of all of them(not just gpu manus). How many years does it take you to learn where your cards are going? Here it is 2017 and there are no cards sold for mining, and the gamer (maxXtreme4!!!!) cards are sold out everywhere. do these idiots sell cards or what? The cards could come with presets for different coins that could be easily set from the uefi (you know, that beautiful, useless pos that was supposed to be so wonderful?) or cli. I shouldn't be expected to run windows or some windows bloatware just to set the voltages, timings, etc. for the card i bought for mining on linux.