Thursday, April 15th 2021
NVIDIA to Introduce a New GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU with Ethereum Mining Limiter
Some time ago, NVIDIA introduced its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card with GA106-300 Ampere GPU SKU. The GPU was the first to feature NVIDIA's latest additions like Resizable BAR and crypto mining algorithm limiter that limited the performance of the card while mining. However, despite NVIDIA's intention to keep the card out of the hands of crypto miners, there has been a lot of flaws in the plan. A lot of people discovered that the card still managed to turn in profits with the limiter enables. Later, NVIDIA accidentally released a driver that actually removes the limiter and enables the GPU to mine at full capacity, making the company's efforts useless.
Today we have new information that NVIDIA will launch an updated GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU that features a different ID, in the quest to limit card's mining performance. According to HKEPC, NVIDIA is producing updated GeForce RTX 3060 GKU SKUs with GA106-302 ID that should launch sometime in May, which are supposed to replace the GA106-300 SKUs now present. The software and the drivers will use the new ID to identify new SKUs and limit the performance of the card at mining tasks such as Ethereum mining. That way, it ensures that no driver version or bypass can trick the software to enable the card to use its full mining power and it shall render it unprofitable. Additionally, kopite7kimi, a known hardware leaker, claims that NVIDIA is also preparing updated GPU SKU IDs for GA104 and GA102 GPUs, with GA102-302/202 and GA104-302/202 variants supposedly coming.
Sources:
HKEPC, @kopite7kimi (Twitter), via VideoCardz
Today we have new information that NVIDIA will launch an updated GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU that features a different ID, in the quest to limit card's mining performance. According to HKEPC, NVIDIA is producing updated GeForce RTX 3060 GKU SKUs with GA106-302 ID that should launch sometime in May, which are supposed to replace the GA106-300 SKUs now present. The software and the drivers will use the new ID to identify new SKUs and limit the performance of the card at mining tasks such as Ethereum mining. That way, it ensures that no driver version or bypass can trick the software to enable the card to use its full mining power and it shall render it unprofitable. Additionally, kopite7kimi, a known hardware leaker, claims that NVIDIA is also preparing updated GPU SKU IDs for GA104 and GA102 GPUs, with GA102-302/202 and GA104-302/202 variants supposedly coming.
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Their attempts to sell mining-specific GPUs is a joke. No, we are not paying $700 for a last-gen $280 product that Nvidia BIOS-flashed themselves.
Perhaps ban sales of 3000 series cards on sites like Ebay for the next 2 years.
They're trying to figure out how to capitalize on this. See, the problem is Nvidia is selling chips to AIBs for a certain amount of money, these guys proceed to increases their margins by a lot when they sell the cards to retailers which increase their margins as well. Then on top of all this scalpers come in and the product is sold to the end consumer for even more money. Basically Nvidia has to watch how this entire chain is creating profits several times over what they originally sell the hardware for. That's a problem, because they don't get a slice of these insane profits.
What they seem to be trying to do is make the currently available hardware unfit for mining so these massive profits disappear and then launch a distinct line of hardware for which they can have a really high markup from the get go.
btw congrats on your first post since being a member for over 16 years. :)
The whole point of Nvidia's mining cards is to prevent a flood of used cards in the market so that people are forced to buy new GPUs. Nvidia makes bank on mining cards and they also prevent people from getting cheap GPUs. They were never interested in saving gamers, they are interested in maximizing profits.
You are calling this a pyramid scheme but many big investment brokerages are starting to offer crypto investment options.
4XXX series?