New GeForce just for gamers
Nvidia says the new RTX 3060 is aimed at gamers, not cryptominers…
The company Nvidia announced that with new drivers it will limit the cryptomining efficiency of its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, which will be released this week, and also announced the release of the CMP HX models, which will be intended for professional mining for cryptocurrencies. And why such a decision?
Cryptocurrency mining requires considerable processing power, especially the number of processing cores. And since graphics cards have them in abundance, miners naturally bought them in bulk. So much so that it was almost impossible to get them on the market anymore and many players, for whom the new graphics cards are basically intended, gave up. And of course they were angry, and they directed their anger at the card manufacturers and not at cryptocurrencies.
In order to prevent something similar from happening again, Nvidia decided to somehow separate the two markets. Driver for the new GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, which will be released on 25. in February, will contain a "brake" that will limit the mining of the cryptocurrency Etherum, which is now one of the most sought after. With this, Nvidia expects less demand from miners and therefore better availability of the card to gamers.
But because of course no manufacturer/retailer is stupid enough to give up the demand for their products, especially if customers don't buy them individually but several at the same time, that's why Nvidia will soon release CMP HX series, intended for mining. The model will differ from the "original" not only in that it will not have a driver "brake", but also in that it will not have an output for the screen, as it does not need one. This will of course make the card thinner and there will be more can be placed closer together, and due to the limited maximum voltage of the cores and frequency, the energy efficiency of mining will also be much better. The new CMP HX cards will be manufactured by authorized partners such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit and others.
Source: Nvidia
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