Monday, February 22nd 2021
NVIDIA's Mining Performance Cap On Unreleased ZOTAC RTX 3060 Shows Results
The NVIDIA RTX 3060 isn't even released yet, but as you might've heard, cards are already doing the rounds throughout the secondhand market at ridiculous prices. And now, to sour the pot even more, one crypto enthusiast going by the name of CryptoLeo on YouTube has shown that he already has his hands on the card - and performed a quick mining test on it. The user showcases the cards' serial number, so I hope NVIDIA is reading this post so as to know exactly which distributor this graphics card came from; breaking time-to-market likely isn't to be taken lightly by the company.
The test, done without the RTX 3060's release drivers (which are still a week away), showcases the graphics card capping its own mining performance a little after the mining algorithms begin to be processed. The card, identified in the below screenshots as tagged "1", shows a decline in performance from the initial 41.5 MH/s down to 24-24 MH/s. The card tagged as "2" is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which doesn't show the same performance decline (naturally). That the card exhibited this behavior sans release drivers goes to show that NVIDIA's solution is, at the very, very least, BIOS-based, and isn't a shoestring-budget driver-based solution that was haphazardly thrown in for good measure. And once again, it's a ZOTAC card in the mining spotlight. Is this a pattern?
The test, done without the RTX 3060's release drivers (which are still a week away), showcases the graphics card capping its own mining performance a little after the mining algorithms begin to be processed. The card, identified in the below screenshots as tagged "1", shows a decline in performance from the initial 41.5 MH/s down to 24-24 MH/s. The card tagged as "2" is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which doesn't show the same performance decline (naturally). That the card exhibited this behavior sans release drivers goes to show that NVIDIA's solution is, at the very, very least, BIOS-based, and isn't a shoestring-budget driver-based solution that was haphazardly thrown in for good measure. And once again, it's a ZOTAC card in the mining spotlight. Is this a pattern?
38 Comments on NVIDIA's Mining Performance Cap On Unreleased ZOTAC RTX 3060 Shows Results
I don't know in what twisted reality you're living, but no, you can't stick a laptop in your ATX case either - that was the point. And laptops don't represent dedicated desktop GPU share which is what our topic here is about. Note RTX 3060 in the title? You responded to guy talking about getting 'GPUs in the hands of gamers' and by some stretch of your imagination this also means laptops, consoles, and possibly also every single datacenter GPU ever made because hey, they're market share too right?
Why not include vacuum cleaners while you're at it?
Wow.
:lovetpu:
I was gonna ask you, in your neck of the woods, you seen any 6900xt or 3080 for sale? Over here, no stock in weeks
Don't let the door hit you. I'll be there to correct BS the next time, too. That way we can keep looking at each other with a straight face instead of floating on deceit. Try it.
Well, if anyone expected to buy a card this year or the next, better hope for a mining crash sometime in this decade.