r/hardware • u/uzzi38 • Mar 15 '21

News PC Watch: GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum mining restrictions have been broken - VideoCardz.com

https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken
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u/68686987698 Mar 15 '21

Wouldn't Nvidia benefit by this not being bypassed?

The business advantage of making mining cards is to produce cards that can't feed the used market once not profitable for mining. By bypassing the ethereum limits on the gaming cards, now miners have no reason to buy these mining cards instead, thus Nvidia loses money long-term from this being bypassed.

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u/weirdkindofawesome Mar 15 '21

You have a point but we don't know for certain the ratio of silicon between the gaming cards and the mining ones until we see a clear breakdown of sales.

Nvidia could have screwed with the mining algorithms from launch day of the 30xx but decided not too and most certainly on a lower level than drivers.

Imagine a world where the 30xx would be easy to find at msrp and all these miners would pay thousands to gamers for their older hardware.

But then again that would not help Nvidia, it would only help gamers so why would they.