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Nvidia RTX 3060 mines Ether at full power as miners allegedly bypass hash limits
- gkhartman 6y agoNvidia engineers had to know that this would happen. This always seemed like a PR move to win points with gamers. In reality, I'm sure they don't care who buys those cards or what they are used for, as long as they sell.
- IshKebab 6y agoThey definitely do care - they want miners to buy the more expensive card that they've released specifically for mining. Very similar to how they banned large scale use of gaming cards from being used for AI - they want the wealthy AI companies to buy their more expensive AI cards instead. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
- FractalParadigm 6y agoFunny enough, when the news of this limit was first announced, I gave it a month at most until this was bypassed[0] (similarly to how NVENC is limited to three (previously two) hardware encodes, but a driver patch removes that limit). Here we are 20 days later, and this article is released. The 'allegedly' can always end up being a gotcha, but again, I really wouldn't be surprised if this is the real deal. Where there's a will, there's a way - where there's money to be made, someone's going to make it. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/lmpfaq/rtx_3060_will_be_mining_limited_to_50_will_amd_do/gnxs7re/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/lmpfaq/rtx_3060_will_b...
- floatingatoll 6y agoThis submission is to a reblog of wccftech, who has issued a partial retraction of their original story: > Update: It seems like the mining algorithm used here wasn't Ethereum but Octopus which is a different cryptocurrency coin and based on an algorithm that NVIDIA might not have limited its hash rate for yet. So as of right now, the hash rate limiter remains in place