Nvidia has announced in an official blog post that the upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards will feature drivers that limit the GPU's performance if the board is used for crypto mining. At the same time, Team Green has also revealed the CMP HX processors that are specifically designed for digging up digital coins.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gamers-vs-miners-Nvidia-announces-GeForce-RTX-3060-graphics-cards-will-come-with-gamer-friendly-hash-rate-limiting-drivers-and-reveals-new-CMP-HX-processors-for-crypto-mining.522744.0.html
This is just Nvidia trying to market themselves as consumer-friendly.
Some miners will prefer the gaming GPU's anyway, as they will retain some value after crypto crashes again (And there's no telling when it will). You just need one large/medium mining business to make a modded driver and your anti-mining drivers are worthless.
And making mining GPU's won't improve gaming GPU availability, as they're built from the same silicon - that's the bottleneck.
The real motivation behind this is to prevent a flood of cheap used graphics cards whenever mining crashes, as that would collapse the hiper-inflated GPU prices.
So all in all, it's not good for consumers.
Are there actually people honestly applauding Nvidia throttling their own products performance for one group of customers to appeal to another? I dont do crypto so I dont have a dog in this race but this instantly would make me avoid any Nvidia products if possible.
I purchase your hardware, im the boss of what hardware. Not you.
Start up nicehash OS, run mining from shell with no nvidia drivers at all. Already defeated before it comes out.
Quote from: Jay Mcleod on February 18, 2021, 18:46:16
Start up nicehash OS, run mining from shell with no nvidia drivers at all. Already defeated before it comes out.
Not how this works, they are most likely limiting performance directly through the card bios, just like they do with limiting tensor performance on the 3090 preventing it from being a data science compute wonder among other desirable features that are reserved for quadro/titan cards
320w for 86mh/s entices no one. The 3080 gets over 100mh/s for less power.
I thought this move was to stop those who buy a tonne of these GPUs solely for mining? Have people forgotten this?
All crypto miners should be gutted and hung by their intestines, pathetic bunch of criminals, supporting terrorism, drug/human/weapon trafficking, organised crime, cyber terrorism, the list goes on, I'm going to laugh for weeks when this whole scam collapses, going to be a joyous day, mark my words, crypto is not the future.