Thursday, March 4th 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to Have Crippled Crypto-Mining Performance
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is likely to feature a hardware hash-rate limiter, much like the recently launched RTX 3060, according to kopite7kimi, a reliable source for NVIDIA rumors. The hash-rate limiter ensures that that crypto-currency mining performance of the card is significantly lower than what its hardware is capable of, so it doesn't remain viable for miners. The limiter works through a secure key exchange between the video BIOS, system firmware, and the driver; so driver-level modifications wouldn't affect it.
The RTX 3080 Ti is being launched to fill the large price-performance gorge between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Its rumored specifications wildly swing between a 12 GB memory setup maxing out the 384-bit memory interface of the "GA102" silicon; and 20 GB of it across a narrower 320-bit wide interface. The card allegedly features 80 out of 84 streaming multiprocessors (40 out of 42 TPCs) enabled, working out to 10,240 CUDA cores, 80 RT cores, and 320 Tensor cores. Below is a picture of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), via VideoCardz
The RTX 3080 Ti is being launched to fill the large price-performance gorge between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Its rumored specifications wildly swing between a 12 GB memory setup maxing out the 384-bit memory interface of the "GA102" silicon; and 20 GB of it across a narrower 320-bit wide interface. The card allegedly features 80 out of 84 streaming multiprocessors (40 out of 42 TPCs) enabled, working out to 10,240 CUDA cores, 80 RT cores, and 320 Tensor cores. Below is a picture of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
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AMD now has stated that they have no plans for a hashrate limiter so it is just a matter of time before Nvidia anonymously "leaks" a work around to keep miners buying the cards. This way they will look like the good guy and still make all that juicy money from the miners.
End of the day Nvidia is only interested in their bottom line, do not fall for the PR crap "We care about gamers" they are trying to feed the world. They never did before and will not in the future. Nvidia will trample down anybody to make an extra buck even gamers.
Not saying leaks won't happen, just saying if it did happen it would not be in NVIDIA's interest.
Whats next? NVIDIA is crippling teleportation device to max 100kg payload? NVIDIA is crippling over-the-speed-of-light transport to 2c?
I also wanted to upgrade this year, but with this prices and poor developments in games I am losing interest quickly and will just play games that I have not finished (backlog) yet and upgrade every 5 or so years or only when really necessary. Think about do you really need another GPU or would you LIKE a new GPU, after giving it some thought I actually decided screw this and started saving / investing my money rather. Sooner then later this will bite Nvidia / AMD in the bud. Most game developers cater for the lowest denominator GPU to increase sales and this will hold back the gaming industry and development.
Good luck for future of Nvidia / AMD soon people will turn to something else and GPU sales will crash.
I personally played around with mining years back (built a who 6 card rig), but then the market crashed and I realized it's no different than the stock market, but with no rules, and those with money control the market. But I still won't buy a purposely crippled card that infringes on my ability to do whatever I want with my GPU.
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