Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
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Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#2This doesn’t change anything, as the additional yield by reusing binned chips is not enough to meet inelastic demand from miners. They will buy anything
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#3This doesn’t change anything, as the additional yield by reusing binned chips is not enough to meet inelastic demand from miners. They will buy anything
Yup, there are laptop mining farms in China. Anything with 30?0 GPU in it is instant buy for them.
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#4This doesn’t change anything, as the additional yield by reusing binned chips is not enough to meet inelastic demand from miners. They will buy anything
This won't have an effect on any other workloads?
(I am an ignorant layperson on this topic.)
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#5It's a real shame that companies think that they should be the ones dictating how you use a piece of hardware you bought from them.
It's a further shame that they would artificially hinder their hardware for such purposes.
I will avoid nvidia in the future as a result of this sort of attitude, and I don't even mine cryptocurrency. I have no dog in this race other than a philosophical one.
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#6there’s going to be a brisk market in reverse engineering the drivers and getting around this
“RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.”
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#7If you cannot run what you want on the device, do you really own it?
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#8It's a real shame that companies think that they should be the ones dictating how you use a piece of hardware you bought from them. It's a further shame that they would artificially hinder their hardware for such purposes. I will avoid nvidia in the future as a result of this sort of attitude, and I don't even mine cryptocurrency. I have no dog in this race other than a philosophical one.
It's easy to speak philosophically when you have no dog in the race. It's harder when you need a GPU for other tasks and have to pay the crypto tax.
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#9Have nvidia lost their minds?
It's going to take days for mining operations to reverse-engineer the driver and undo this. So commercial operations won't be affected at all.
Worse, their detection isn't going to be 100% perfect. What if After Effects does something that looks "kind of" like mining. Is it just going to be crippled? What will nvidia do then? Suggest I buy a Quadro for AE support?
This will only penalise average users.
Re: Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
#10It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for someone to reverse-engineer the drivers and remove the slowdown code.