We’ve been listening to about NVIDIA and its combat towards cryptocurrency mining on its new Ampere vary of GeForce RTX 30 sequence graphics playing cards — however here is a doozy: NVIDIA is getting ready a complete new stack of GeForce RTX 30 playing cards with revised GPUs which have cryptocurrency mining limitations.
NVIDIA hasn’t been shy about gimping its graphics playing cards from crypto mining, with NVIDIA being praised — and pissing off avid gamers by limiting them from crypto mining. Well, it seems like total new GPU revisions have been reportedly despatched to AIB companions with their GPUs having crypto mining limitations.
Igor’s Lab is reporting that the newly-teased GeForce RTX 3080 Ti qualification samples see AIBs required to replace them with crypto mining limiters — one thing that can not be undone. We heard that it was being completed with the newly-tweaked GeForce RTX 3060 nevertheless it appears it is being completed throughout the board… so I suppose we would see the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (crypto mining restricted), the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (crypto mining restricted) and different GeForce RTX 30 sequence Ampere GPUs with gimped crypto mining launched over the approaching months.
The problem is that this would possibly not assist provide points… you’ll not magically discover 1000’s of GeForce RTX 30 sequence graphics playing cards on cabinets worldwide as a result of NVIDIA has new crypto mining limitations on their new playing cards. There are a million-and-one points which can be inflicting GPU (and different) shortages.
I imply, we’re seeing community switches having a 12+ month wait due to digital and provide shortages… having some new crypto-gimped GeForce RTX 30 sequence playing cards float out and into the wild is not going to make things better immediately, if in any respect, ever — GPU shortages are right here for the following 12+ months on the very least.