Monday, February 22nd 2021
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GeForce RTX 3060 Already Hits Second-Hand Market as NVIDIA Sours the Milk for Miners
NVIDIA's yet-to-be-released GeForce RTX 3060 "Ampere" graphics card has already hit the second-hand graphics card market, as those with early access to RTX 3060 inventory have begun re-selling it. Belarusian tech marketplace Onliner listed these GIGABYTE RTX 3060 Eagle OC custom-design graphics cards for 2,800 BYN (USD $1,080) a piece, from a lot of three cards.
NVIDIA announced that the company plans to tackle the problem of crypto-currency miners soaking up inventory of GeForce "Ampere" graphics cards, beginning by designing the GeForce RTX 3060 to be bad at mining, putting out half the hash-rate it normally should, with the specs at its disposal. The company claims to be using an elaborate mechanism to enforce this hash-rate limiting, so miners can't work around by modifying the drivers. We're also hearing that the company could revise other RTX 30-series "Ampere" products with hashrate limiters, so they become unviable for crypto mining.
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NVIDIA announced that the company plans to tackle the problem of crypto-currency miners soaking up inventory of GeForce "Ampere" graphics cards, beginning by designing the GeForce RTX 3060 to be bad at mining, putting out half the hash-rate it normally should, with the specs at its disposal. The company claims to be using an elaborate mechanism to enforce this hash-rate limiting, so miners can't work around by modifying the drivers. We're also hearing that the company could revise other RTX 30-series "Ampere" products with hashrate limiters, so they become unviable for crypto mining.
68 Comments on GeForce RTX 3060 Already Hits Second-Hand Market as NVIDIA Sours the Milk for Miners
Anyway, Nvidia stepped in because of these juicy profits that their AIB are making and they are missing out on it. If they are selling "mining cards" using the same GPUs used for gaming, and able to sell it at double the MSRP that they are offering consumers , i.e. gamers, at USD 329, do you really think they will allocate equal GPUs to gamers? They are not a "gamers" centric company, they are a profit seeking organization.
Yeah, for sure... :D RX 580 miner editions also helped reduce the GPU prices (nope).
The only difference is Nvidia use the money to develop better products, while miners and scalpers use the money to buy more GPU, driving prices sky high.
I would rather my money go straight to Nvidia.
PS: Editor please stop spreading Ngreedia's PR propaganda about them trying to cripple hash-rate of GPUs in order to 'help gamers'. The truth is that Ngreedia's AIB partner sold a few hundred thousand Ampere dies/PCBs without coolers and software directly to one of the multi billion worth mining enterprises in Russia for A LOT of money (near double MSRP price per piece) and even helped their engineers to write custom mining optimized bioses/drivers. If I know for 2 instances there must be A LOT more out there. The truth is Ngreedia & it's AIBs are crippling home alone miners while happily sell to and assist big mining farms. Hypocrisy and greed everywhere you look.
the only thing that surprises me is how good they are at doing this.. or just how dumb some of the customers are maybe..
trog