Sunday, May 9th 2021
GALAX First NVIDIA Partner to Showcase LHR Graphics Cards, Settling Expectations
GALAX has now become the first NVIDIA partner from whom some details on how NVIDIA's push to limit the mining hash rates on their graphics cards will turn out. The new GALAX graphics cards in question are the already-released, unicorn-like RTX 3070 and RTX 3080. The GALAX packaging doesn't seem to have any differences compared to their original launch packaging for these graphics cards, though; however, the product pages for these respective products do have an additional [FG] compared to the original releases. This seems to be in-line with NVIDIA's decision not to differentiate between LHR and non-LHR cards at a packaging level, so as to reduce desirability for miners to just keep gobbling up remaining supply for the non-LHR graphics cards still in the channel.
As we already knew before, the LHR graphics cards feature an NVIDIA-designed solution that identifies the workload you're putting your card through and artificially halves its performance for Ethereum mining workloads. Of course, NVIDIA would prefer to have miners buying their mining-specific CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) cards and free up demand from their gaming-oriented RTX cards, effectively feeding two very distinct markets. It remains to be seen whether this new NVIDIA hashrate limitation survives more than a few days compared to their latest attempt at such a solution.
Source:
Videocardz
As we already knew before, the LHR graphics cards feature an NVIDIA-designed solution that identifies the workload you're putting your card through and artificially halves its performance for Ethereum mining workloads. Of course, NVIDIA would prefer to have miners buying their mining-specific CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) cards and free up demand from their gaming-oriented RTX cards, effectively feeding two very distinct markets. It remains to be seen whether this new NVIDIA hashrate limitation survives more than a few days compared to their latest attempt at such a solution.
25 Comments on GALAX First NVIDIA Partner to Showcase LHR Graphics Cards, Settling Expectations
Yes I know it's the most profitable right now. But it seems like wasted effort for short term gain,
July will just make it harder to mine.
So there is still some room to make money.
B2T: I wonder if miners will really adopt the CMP SKU this time, all previous tries flopped hard.
And personally, because the battle is correctly lost before it begins, I am unsure this is really helpful at all. Fighting an unwinnable war for PR points isn't really all that productive.
6900xt/6800xt/6800 is almost on bar with tuned 3060Ti .
Basically athenticating ethereum transactions by solving equations using an Ethash algorithm.
Coming in July is EIP-1559 update and it will make the payments reduced greatly.
Personally i do believe that if Nvidia could push a button and remove the mining capabilities of their ''gaming'' lineup of GPUs they would had done so, not out of charity but because it would give them incredible marketing power and it would push mining customers towards their mining lineup of GPUs .
So the fact they haven't done it means there must be some limitation .Sure i know that , still i don't see where you are going with this ? Does that mean that 6900XT/6800XT/6800 were less used for mining ? OFC NOT !
Miners would kill 3060Ti levels of hashrate and that's the reason why BigNavi has not been spared by miners and scalpers , if anything else according to Steam there are more Ampere GPUs going to gamers than Big Navi so yeah .... i really don't see where you are going with this !
Again at least Nvidia is doing something , unlike AMD .......
As i said in my previous comment if anything else we have yet to see a 6000 series SKU from AMD in the Steam Hardware survey list while there are several 3000 series SKU from Nvidia that have made it , this indicates that there are much more Ampere GPUs in the hands of gamers compared to BiG Navi .
Ofc Steam survey is not 100% representative but it's the best we have , so yeah .
It's ok but it's not "as good" from performance per watt as what I've seen in Ampere. It's certainly close enough though.They must have more production then, because Big Navi cards have less of a scalper upmark in general.