https://www.pcgamer.com/cryptocurrency-miners-bought-3-million-graphics-cards-worth-776-million-in-2017/ >Last year was a big one for cryptocurrency mining, and it culminated with a shortage of graphics cards and grossly inflated prices. According to a new report by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), miners purchased over 3 million add-in board (AIB) graphics cards worth around $776 million in 2017, with AMD emerging as the primary benefactor of those sales. >Those numbers are actually lower than we would have guessed them to be, though obviously still high enough to have a major impact on the market as a whole. If there's a silver lining for gamers, it's that gaming is the still the biggest market for GPUs.