Caring1 If cheap compute cards are released this makes more gaming cards available to the market, it has nothing to do with cutting in to a set number being produced like some people think.

It has everything to do with that.If they produce 10 compute cards then that's 10 gaming cards they didn't produce, the only way around that is to increase overall production, but then you have the issue that you could have done that anyway and made more gaming cards lol.Also how are they going to make them cheaper? even if they don't put any outputs one them (or make them 1x PCI-E) that's not going to knock much off the card cost so for everyone they make that's a GPU die they are selling for less profit than they would have made if it had been a gaming board.And the final nail in this stupid idea is that if they make the cards unable to game, then they will be worth hardly anything used after a few years and so no miners will want them as it's counter productive. What I mean is, the HD79XXs and R290s I mined with paid for themselves multiple times over then when they were no longer viable for mining (compared to newer much more efficient cards) sold for £100+ as they could still game. These compute cards will never sell for £100 when they become uneconomical as they can't game so they need to be at sold for at least £100 less than an equally performing gaming card to be viable, that means you're looking at paying £100 for RX580 performance and if AMD sell a £100 compute card with the die they could have put on a £200 gaming card they would be shooting their profits in the foot.