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The objective seems to be to stop miners from buying up consumer GPUs. Nvidia added a separate product line for mining.
by lima 6y ago
The objective seems to be to stop miners from buying up consumer GPUs. Nvidia added a separate product line for mining.
- wmf 6y agoIf both those product lines use the same dies, mining is still taking GPUs away from gamers.
- _carbyau_ 6y agoAssuming binning is simply making use of chips that fail display output tests but are otherwise fine, then I see no issue here. These are chips not being used by gamers anyway. I am curious though whether they could be used as "second cards" for systems so that I can speed up Blender render times...
- the-enterprise 6y agoThe point made is this will stop mass consumers mining, any restriction will likely be quickly bypassed by those technical enough to bypass it. This is a great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg__YdXbRtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg__YdXbRtI