GPU mining is currently the most hot topic so my few ideas.

Dislaimer in this thread there will be few price projections on ETH, LTC, BTC based on mathematical models. Do not take them as granted and do not consider them as financial advices.

BTC's price will top this bubble at around 288k USD according to Stock to Flow Model, and BTC's nominal value after third halving, according to the same model is 100k USD.

Historically ETH and LTC are oscillators to BTC. If BTC tops around 288k, then ETH should top at around 20-22k USD.

This is main reason why ETH GPU mining is booming.

ETH's algo's were specifically designed to be light enough work on GPUs. That was true for ETH 1.0. ETH 2.0 supposedly vastly increases the difficulty of GPU mining of ETH. However...

The reason why we had two years of cooldown on the market with GPU supplies was that ETH was not profitable.

We are past the point of "no return" for ETH. It's price will most likely NEVER be lower than what it is now.

Historically ETH's price goes from bubble to 1/6th of its price. Repeat this, from 20k and we still are on 3k per ETH. Way higher than current price of ETH, still very profitable.

This will have affect on GPU supply: it may NEVER come back to normal, again.

The only hope for gamers are two things: GPU companies deliver products on two nodes, for miners and for gamers, so the supplies do not overlap themselves, or ETH's mining difficulty VASTLY goes up with time.

There is no other way around it, unfortunately.