Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
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Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
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#2Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing.
Hardware manufactures already segment features between consumer and busness grade parts that the silicon itself is capable of, such as virtualization, but restricting what algorithms one can run is a whole new level.
I am pretty sure my next GPU is going to be AMD due to this behavior by Nvidia.
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#3Didn't Nvidia try this on some different cards recently? And wasn't it only about a week before there was a patch that undid what Nvidia had done?
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#4Why not the 3090? What's the logic?
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#5Context: Back in February, Nvidia also restricted cryptocurrency mining on their RTX 3060 cards. The restrictions were bypassed a month later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26475596
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Re: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
#6Didn't Nvidia try this on some different cards recently? And wasn't it only about a week before there was a patch that undid what Nvidia had done?
They only tried it on a version of the 3060, and they accidentally released a driver without LHR.
Re: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
#7Didn't Nvidia try this on some different cards recently? And wasn't it only about a week before there was a patch that undid what Nvidia had done?
My unfounded speculation is that the 3060Ti limiter (which was mostly bypassed due to an accidental leak of dev drivers) acted as a bit of a test balloon to see how it would be attacked before implementing it on the 3070/3080 silicon.
Re: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
#8Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing. Hardware manufactures already segment features between consumer and busness grade parts that the silicon itself is capable of, such as virtualization, but restricting what algorithms one can run is a whole new level. I am pretty sure my next GPU is going to…
It is unfortunate, but it is less unfortunate than the behavior of crypto miners. Freedom is great when people aren't using their freedom to infringe on other people's freedom.
Re: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
#9Why not the 3090? What's the logic?
3090 availability is relatively good at the moment.
Re: Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
#10Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing. Hardware manufactures already segment features between consumer and busness grade parts that the silicon itself is capable of, such as virtualization, but restricting what algorithms one can run is a whole new level. I am pretty sure my next GPU is going to…
It is unfortunate, but it is less unfortunate than the behavior of crypto miners. Freedom is great when people aren't using their freedom to infringe on other people's freedom.
How is someone mining on GPUs they bought themselves infringing on your freedom, pray tell?