Quote Originally Posted by GoldenTiger View Post
It means that AMD's *SALES* rose a nice amount but that the marketshare isn't really changed, just the sales for this small time period, hampered by low supply which means if they weren't selling out to gamers before, coin miners are the guys causing it since that's the segment with huge intensity right now and nothing happened to change gamers' demand for the better. It's very obvious that us miners are the vast majority of purchases right now since the cards were in-stock readily at MSRP/below for month(s) and then once the coin news picked up, they're suddenly out everywhere and being jacked up in pricing when they're in-stock for brief periods. As SKYMTL is saying from his source, this doesn't mean they're selling well in absolute terms but rather just that they are having trouble maintaining their normally-small supply with vendors and keep having to refill it with small amounts.
Well the fact is, nobody can know how much AMD Gpus are being bought for the sole purpose of mining.NOBODY, so claims like "gamers arent interested in amd" while AMD cards being sold out around the world are just absurd.There is no way of knowing how big of a percentage are cards only for mining.And of course that a short surge cant change overall marketshare ,however i was under the impression were talking about sales in the holiday season.
As for the rest of your post
A) 290`swerent available before
B) BF4 bundle wasnt available before
C) black friday christmas etc, are when large group of people makes the purchase so again, no way of knowing EXACTLY what drove what percentage of the sales.Sky cant know this, his source cant know this you cant know this and i cant know this.For us to know every purchase would have to be registered with this information .

So someone claiming THEY KNOW what and where is just pulling his info out their bumhole.
Only and simple fact is AMD cards are selling a lot better right now.