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Hahaha, this can't be real. Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too? Will people who already bought these cards for mining h
by Klwohu 6y ago
Hahaha, this can't be real. Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too? Will people who already bought these cards for mining have to watch out for updated drivers or firmware? This is an absolute nightmare scenario which will come back to haunt Nvidia for years. I can't believe they approved this.
It'll be interesting to see how games perform on the newly gimped cards people already own. Can they firmware-gimp a card to reliably stop mining without affecting games? We'll see!
- terramex 6y agoRTX 3060 has not been released yet, it goes on sale February 25th.
- Klwohu 6y agoOK, but it still seems like a problem until people can see that this doesn't affect their games. Perhaps this will reduce demand among miners after all. I shouldn't be surprised - this is what Nvidia already does with their Quadro vs. consumer line. Heck, I owned a Sound Blaster Live! which was functionally equivalent to the EMU APS and used the hacked drivers for years back in the olden days.
- pizza234 6y ago> Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too? While their move is questionable (I don't judge, but recognize that it's questionable), there is a situation out there that is 1. specific and 2. concrete (gaming cards that can't be purchased for gaming), which is unlikely to apply also to machine learning.
- mywittyname 6y ago>Hahaha, this can't be real. Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too? Maybe? It would make sense because ML use cases are professional and there's a lot of money to be made there. This isn't without precedent. Quadro cards have always been 99% GeForce cards with some special bios magic to de-gimp them for CAD or VFX applications. They charge 4x the price because they know that workstations running $50,000 a seat software can afford the premium.
- ev1 6y agoIt is already not legal to use consumer cards for ML/AI/datacentre/commercial use according to their EULA and you are not permitted to install drivers at that point. They demand that you get an enterprise card