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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by lima on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:38AM (#26181041)
The objective seems to be to stop miners from buying up consumer GPUs. Nvidia added a separate product line for mining.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by the-enterprise on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:22AM (#26192843)
The point made is this will stop mass consumers mining, any restriction will likely be quickly bypassed by those technical enough to bypass it.

This is a great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg__YdXbRtI

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by wmf on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:00PM (#26186267)
If both those product lines use the same dies, mining is still taking GPUs away from gamers.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by _carbyau_ on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:00PM (#26188121)
Assuming binning is simply making use of chips that fail display output tests but are otherwise fine, then I see no issue here. These are chips not being used by gamers anyway.

I am curious though whether they could be used as "second cards" for systems so that I can speed up Blender render times...

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