Every time I hear/see this type of statement, my mind says "he must be working or have interest in GPU manufacture" they are for games...
I am a GPU miner, I don't mind admitting that. But I think there is more time spent making GPUs good for mining than you realise. It's no accident that there is such a discrepancy between AMD & Intel.
They maybe marketed for games, but they are used in lots of applications. Not only mining - I do a lot of fluid dynamics simulation in my research, and GPUs are much more efficient at these kinds of parallel computations than MPI-based programmes. In molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, use of GPU can speed up computation time by a factor of ~100.
The point is, that yes okay vertcoin isn't 100% ASIC resistant, but it is resistant to the current ASICs & the methodology used to build them. And GPUs have long been developed primarily for applications other than gaming (e.g Nvidia Tesla M2090 which is not at all for gaming - although it's also not much good for mining). The fact the the calculations in graphics are similar to other kinds of calculations is not surprising, and gaming is mainstream - mining and maths computation isn't. So it goes without saying the manufacturers target the biggest audience, not least because those minority audiences are probably intelligent enough to work out for themselves what will and won't work well.
