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They're not fighting against it at all. That's a load of horseshit and anyone familiar with both PC gaming and cryptocurrency mining knows it. Why would you d
by cbozeman 6y ago
They're not fighting against it at all.
That's a load of horseshit and anyone familiar with both PC gaming and cryptocurrency mining knows it.
Why would you divert chips that could be powering GeForce GPUs into mining cards and then also disabling the ability to mine on your gaming cards?
Unless, of course, you were scared shitless about an enormous secondary market forming for 3000 series cards when you release the GTX 4000 series... Why spend $699 for a GTX 4080 when you can buy a gently used GTX 3080 for $299-$399. Decent miners know you need to undervolt and underclock for maximum watt/hash performance - in other words, these chips weren't stressed intensively for months / years - they are the equivalent of a luxury car driven by a 70 year old Grandma to and from the grocery store and the department store.
I can guarantee you if NVIDIA had the capacity with Samsung to pump out a load of 3000 series cards, they'd do it, but they can't, so they're doing the next best thing - creating artificial scarcity.
Once these "mining cards" are no longer profitable, they have no secondary market. They go off to the landfill, or the e-waste processor.
This is about profit, pure and simple.
- duskwuff 6y ago> Why would you divert chips that could be powering GeForce GPUs into mining cards and then also disabling the ability to mine on your gaming cards? Because you're using parts with defects which are irrelevant to mining (e.g. faulty video output, texturing, etc).
- belltaco 6y agoThat's only true now since the 30 series cards are relatively new. Once the process node improves soon, the yields are going to go up, and they're going to use fully functioning parts to create mining cards. It happens everytime where they first use parts with defects to create lower end GPUs or CPUs, and then yields improve so they disable the extra cores, memory and restrict frequency in firmware and drivers. There were many hacks in the past to revert these nerfs and get more functionality of higher end products for free. On one graphics card in the past, all you had to do was just flash the higher end card's bios, and it had a success rate of 75%
- Hamuko 6y ago>Why would you divert chips that could be powering GeForce GPUs into mining cards and then also disabling the ability to mine on your gaming cards? The current cryptomining chips are actually based on Turing (RTX 2000), not Ampere (RTX 3000). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-repurposes-turing-silicon-cmp-crypto-mining-gpus https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-repurposes-turing-s...
- newsclues 6y agoNot all, the high end is ga102 ampere