Wednesday, February 17th 2021
ZOTAC Promotes Cryptocurrency Mining Farm via Twitter
ZOTAC's official Twitter channel has posted an image that promotes the usage of its graphics cards in mining environments. Under the caption "An army of #ZOTACGAMING GPU's hungry for coin!", the company posted an image of a cryptocurrency mining farm populated with its graphics cards. The usage of a gaming hashtag in the post just adds insult to injury, with the picture showcasing at least eight of its GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge graphics cards on mining duties.
Of course, for ZOTAC, its cards being re-purposed for mining isn't a make-it-or-break-it affair: the company makes money selling its products to gamers or miners alike. However, considering how global supply of the latest gaming-branded graphics cards has been constrained ever since the initial RTX 3000-series launch, it seems that this Tweet might have been a misstep on the company. It's bound to attract crosshairs towards a seemingly unjust distribution of graphics cards in the market, with several would-be users of their gaming-branded graphics cards being left out in the cold regarding the primary purpose these graphics cards are developed and marketed for: gaming. The company has in the meantime deleted the Tweet.
Sources:
Twitter, via Videocardz
Of course, for ZOTAC, its cards being re-purposed for mining isn't a make-it-or-break-it affair: the company makes money selling its products to gamers or miners alike. However, considering how global supply of the latest gaming-branded graphics cards has been constrained ever since the initial RTX 3000-series launch, it seems that this Tweet might have been a misstep on the company. It's bound to attract crosshairs towards a seemingly unjust distribution of graphics cards in the market, with several would-be users of their gaming-branded graphics cards being left out in the cold regarding the primary purpose these graphics cards are developed and marketed for: gaming. The company has in the meantime deleted the Tweet.
57 Comments on ZOTAC Promotes Cryptocurrency Mining Farm via Twitter
#theirony.
they just are more foolish than others...
Cards sells +50 to +100% to miners, at least. Why sell them to common customer instead of investors ?
Sad but awfully true.
This tweet from Zotac is just a horrible step in the wrong direction of the current status of GPU availability across most of the world for everyday consumers....it's almost like they're saying "F U" to gamers, even though I'm sure that wasn't their intention. My guess is some one at Zotac is all caught up with mining and wanted to showoff what you could do with a bunch of their GPUs. It's just bad form, if you ask me.
My original comment was more that they produced budget / poor quality products.
It was literally the only 3080 available, and after this post I’m not happy about the purchase.
But Zotac has a good tradition in graphic card nevertheless
All the partners need something to brag/hype about, thats what this is, what they did is more or less FUD/clickbait.
This slap in the face to PC hardware enthusiasts is but the latest in a series of blows to us as costumers, we financed these companies, with our hard earned money, so they could just take advantage of their access to this type of hardware and laugh all the way to the bank while their cards sell to enthusiasts for ridiculous amounts of money.
It's a win-win situation for these companies, and we as costumers are the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.
Nvidia should take notice of this and cut supplies of GPU dies to this particular AIB, but who am I kidding, they don't give a rat's ass either, as they really don't care who purchase their inventory, a sale, is a sale, is a sale...
So sad, I remember when zotac used to be just a minor player in the hardware market, and people used to buy their cards due to them being cheaper than the ones from other AIBs, this is how they repay their costumers.