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Because they made a lot of money selling to miners at prices that maybe they couldn't ask to gamers?
by pmontra 3y ago
Because they made a lot of money selling to miners at prices that maybe they couldn't ask to gamers?
- 8organicbits 3y agoWouldn't the GeForce license then say "no block chain" and a different NVIDIA brand (BlockForce?) would allow it, letting NVDA charge more for large scale mining? Otherwise it looks like gamers and miners are paying the same prices.
- bbatsell 3y agoThey do. But since most miners would just ignore the license, they implemented LHR (low hashrate) beginning on GeForce 3000-series that detects the types of ops used for mining and artificially slows the GPU to about 25% of its actual speed.
- pmontra 3y agoThey did that but with mixed success. One random link from a Google search: https://old.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/t4mwxj/workaround_for_mining_throttling_slowdowns_with/ https://old.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/t4mwxj/workaro...
- latchkey 3y agoTheir source code got leaked and it was reverse engineered to defeat it. That said, it was all kind of late in the game, GPU mining died not too long afterwards.
- sodality2 3y agoI bet that now the AI demand spike will be the new crypto demand spike that NVDA latches onto.