this might sound funny, but if gpu manufacturers are really serious about marketing to gpu miners they should contact our miners developers here like claymore, wolf etc. and send them engineering samples for mining benchmarks before they release their cards to the public
Might be something to email amd and nvidia about
NVidia would not care, their sales to "miners" is trivial at best.
AMD probably doesn't consider it worthwhile, sales to miners would be a very small part of their overall sales even when they DO exist (last year their miner card sales would have been pretty close to ZERO as there were no GPU mineable coins that were noticeably profitable).
Keep in mind we're talking about companies that sell MILLIONS of cards a year (probably TENS of millions some years) - I seriously doubt there has been any year that miners bought even 100K cards in a year since Scrypt went ASIC, and I have some serious doubts about the years before THAT.
17mh at zec on flypool alone is about 110,000 rx 470s
37.9 mh whole network is about 270,000 rx 470s doing 155h
You do not account for the small market cap of 8.2 million dollars
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/It is really easy to pump the coin as an incentive to buy gear.
If 1,000,000 was flooded into the market for 1 day the coin would pump and sales of gear would increase more.
Yeah it won't last for decades but it could happen for the next 2-4 months.
270,000 rx 470s at 200 each = 54,000,000 in gpus mining zec not to mention:
PSUS
CPUS
MOBOS
RAM
CASES
Maybe 75,000,000 in gear for just zec
ZEC has a 8,200,000 market cap and 75,000,000 in gear mining it.
If the companies selling the gear many billion dollar companies don't know this I would be surprised.
The coin will see action.
Find a coin with a 9 to 1 gear to cap ratio besides zec