Gamers and cryptocurrency miners are avid consumers of the latest hotrodded "graphics processing units," computer cards designed specifically to crunch massive amounts of math at screaming speeds.
The price people will pay rapid math for is pretty wild. When Nvidia released its new RTX 3080 in September, the cards — which retailed for $699 — were immediately put up for resale on Ebay for as much as $2,500. — Read the rest