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Nvidia: Anti-crypto flags on newly produced RTX GPUs will work this time
- Twirrim 5y agoHow long are we guessing it'll be until it is broken/bypassed? 1 week?
- dragontamer 5y agoHow does this hypothetical driver know that your GPU-compute is cryptocoin mining vs say... Blender rendering? Or any other CUDA program for that matter?
- justaguy88 5y agoI'm pretty curious about the detection mechanism too
- MikeUt 5y agoThis will be hell for any non-mainstream code hoping to take advantage of GPUs. As if GPU performance debugging isn't hard enough already.
- brokenmachine 5y agoIt makes me shudder to think about, but I wonder if this might end up with Nvidia having their own GPU app store that you have to register apps on.
- skynet-9000 5y agoMaybe they'll just take 30% of any crypto mined on their card. That seems fair.
- arnon 5y agoHow does this solve anything? They're still making "CMPs" for mining. The silicon is still the same. The card still needs to be produced the same way. They're only saving a few dollars off the BOM on the HDMI/DisplayPort connectors.
- antibuddy 5y agoIt's rather hard to resell these cards, so this is clearly better for nVidia. (not so good for everyone else)
- DangitBobby 5y agoGood for people who can't buy these cards because of miners.
- RealityVoid 5y agoNeeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.
- jhloa2 5y agoHow are they supposed to just increase production right now? There's silicon shortages across most industries. In theory, lowering demand by limiting crypto mining efficiency should help give more people access to these cards.