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.
75 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to Have Crippled Crypto-Mining Performance
but being a "good" company goes a long way towards making more money, public perception matters.
Company officers are legally required to act in the best interest of the company. People took that line and twisted it to "maximize profits". That's blatantly false, and peopleneed to stop toting it as justification for corporate greed.
Also the actual reason they bothered limiting crypto on GPU line. There are different ways of doing business.
"At all cost, whatever brings me more money right now at this moment, spit on customers" is just one of those ways. Automotive industry says hi. Back from 80s.
The only reason so many "gamers" are mad is because they are just mad and have to take that madness on something, mad angry gamers.
It's Just a ploy to push old rejected Pascal parts on miner's.
And it won't work to any benefit for gamer's.
Not sure how legal gimping performance is I'm sure the lawyers will find out lol
people can buy it at X performance or not, it's not like they're advertising them as good for mining
What should I do, ya think? Pay 2500 Euros per over at eBay or wait for this new line from that greedy scumbag corporation called Nvidia?
I really have doubts I'd get them easy off of Amazon or something.
What'd you reckon, lads?
We do have budget cards right now.
1050 ti & 1650.
i'm stupid and live on my PC thanks to covid, so i bought a 3090
Does that mean nvidia is going also add a label on the box that says Not for mining if not they would likely get sued especially if other 30 series cards did not have driver gimped.
Press releases mean little to nothing about usage limitations any restrictions have to be clearly marked on the box.
(Source: news my phone gave me this morning, so i dont have a link)