Does 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…
I dunno, the freedom fighter in me thinks this is a terrible idea, but my rationale says that it doesn't make much of a difference. Nvidia's hash rate limitation is really their way of telling miners that they aren't interested in their business. I suppose I could see Nvidia taking a hard left turn here and stopping acceleration for other things (like ML and physics calculations), but why would they? CudNN and PhysX are already such massive investments to them that throwing it out would break comparability with several games/apps and outrage the professional/consumer market.
So given how few choices Nvidia has, I think I trust them to call this. At the very least, it should reduce their hardware demand to tolerable levels, so they can focus on securing better silicon rather than simply more.