Is there ever going to be a fix for the GPU shortages?

[ts2fe]

1060 or 580's for example, is there any way that these will actually come in stock again and miners won't just keep buying everything and making the actual gamers which what the card is intended for not be able to get one.

 

[Dunlop0078]

When the value of bit coin goes down and the cards made specifically for mining come out I would guess. The value of bit coin dropped a bit a few days ago, but I have no idea if that was enough to put off miners from investing in gpu's.

 

[DSzymborski]

When the value of bit coin goes down and the cards made specifically for mining come out I would guess. The value of bit coin dropped a bit a few days ago, but I have no idea if that was enough to put off miners from investing in gpu's.

Probably need more than a minor drop - the lure of free money without effort is strong.

 

[USAFRet]

Eventually, difficulty will increase to the point where it is no longer profitable to mine with regular GPU's.
Depending on your personal cost of electricity, this has already passed.

 

[amtseung]

I read somewhere that Asus was going to make mining-specific cards based on GP106 with no display out ports, that were tweaked specifically to be better at mining. May have been speculation though.

Wait, no, it's real. The Asus GP106 mining card is available now. There's also an Asus and Sapphire RX470 mining card.

 

[ElMeiser]

Its not BTC they're after, its ETH [ethereum]. Mining difficulty of BTC makes it so it is no longer profitable with a GPU setup, but only with an ASIC. ETH is also not profitable anymore. If and when the ETH bubble pops, the miners will flood the used market looking to make a ROI off their purchase. This should drive down the used prices and saturate the market. But when ETH pops is another question entirely
Meanwhile there is also a raging RAM/NAND shortage going on as well