Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3...
by tomatotomato37 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:13AM
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You do understand Nvidia is a fabless company, correct? Scaling up demand isn't just calling up some factory manager and telling them to work harder, it's getting into a massive cagefight with AMD, Apple, and every other company out there that needs silicon all for the amusement of Samsung/TSMC
Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3...
by PixelOfDeath on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:48PM
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Ask AMD why scaling up to mining demand is a bad idea.
A sudden implosion of demand combined with a flooding of the used GPU marked. Better not plan on bringing out any new GPU architectures when your warehouses are still full of the previous generation.
Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3...
by Tenoke on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:09PM
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Except with NVIDIA there's already extra demand if they need it - they can allow GeForce into data centers which are currently artificially disallowed.
My argument is they should and could have scaled up the production rather than just shuffling around which group they hurt or help at the expense of which other (be it miners, ML folks or gamers). This isn't the 'right thing', it just helps the group you prefer on this round.