ppnif it is not 7nm don't even bother releasing it. 12nm is old.

Not really, zzzzzz

Only in the world of make believe would a retailer ask "Are you a cryptocurrency miner?" and a cryptocurrency miner responds with "yes".

Bless, finally.

DarkHilluhm - no, the point of this most likely to use dies that have failed the first QA as fullblown gaming cards but will work just fine as minig cards at lower frequencies. simple PCBs and no licensing for output modules probably mean they can keep a hefty margin of income on the dedicated cards, thus its a win/win/win for gamers, miners and nvidia.

Miners will buy the cheaper dedicated cards and gamers can access the gamer cards again thus stopping the inflation. Meanwhile nvidia will get more cards out of their dies and in the end making more money.

Or so the theory is. Whether it will work or not.. only time will tell

None of what I said disagrees with that. My comment was targeted at them not being permitted to sell GPU's in bulk for end users. Who the hell says end users can't buy GPU's? This wont stop inflation as of right now the market is trying to figure out what that general purpose processor is worth. Remember AI is also eating cards up like it is going out of style.

bugI think the goal is to still have a GPU market when mining cools off.

You are a bit past that. If mining dies, the GPU market will be trash. More so than the last time it happened.

theoneandonlymrkNot less I expect , just with warranties and profits in the right places, for nvidia.

I think after their last mining card release and its crazy prices and wtf warranty ,not enticing miners into buying them, until only those were left, they could be putting more effort in ie use the worst shader array bin gpus specially configured for mining instead of regular stuff with bits removed ,they just need to get the price right and they win but either way they win as the chip bins called a bin for a reason, this could use stock that few other use cases would have, we'll see i suppose .

Anyone else now thinking this exact asic could be turing, it seams odd that turing got rumoured up to death, now rumoured Q3 just as these deliberately made for mining cards turn up, they are not shy of naming a segmant after all are they ie Quadro,Titan, Geforce ,,Turing.

makes more sense then buying a farm of these only for nvidia to piss on my chips in Q3 with an jeffin super miner card.

Warranties don't make nvidia a dime. Mining cards would actually be better for them since they limit the warranty severely, essentially making it a non-DOA warranty.

Profits are not changing if the die goes to mining or gaming. The product they provide is the chip, AIB cost is the same based on bin. If it is a garbage bin it goes to mining and they get less money for it the AIB however can profiteer all they want on that item. Case in point is Gigabyte selling their P104 cards to venders over $500 a pop when Manli sells them for $300.

I am still fully against Nvidia disabling mining on consumer cards. Never tell a company to cut features on a product. If you want to offer me a product at a reduced prices with less features by all means, but don't charge me full price after cutting away.

There are many contradictory claims about Nvidia's upcoming GPUs, which indicates pure speculation.

BTW, GDC is next week, and GTC the following week. Hopefully they will disclose something there.