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My understanding is that Nvidia's move was universally condemned. AMD's just taking advantage of Nvidia's blunder.
by Shared404 6y ago
My understanding is that Nvidia's move was universally condemned.
AMD's just taking advantage of Nvidia's blunder.
- ttt0 6y agoUntil today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.
- rrss 6y agonope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores
- mancerayder 6y ago486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.
- seaourfreed 6y agoWhy did Nvidia work to block crypto mining on their video cards? (I don't buy "because gamers couldn't buy them") Can someone explain why they think nvidia really did this?
- proce55ing 6y agoThe cards that have access to mining lack a video output. Once they become unprofitable to mine with they won’t impact the gaming market on resale.