Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by tus89 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:10PM (#26186393)

Is it even in theory possible to produce silicon that does not perform well on crypto operations while allows 3D to run at full speed? Or do they simply rely on the same underlying operations?

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by leetcrew on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:15PM (#26186475)

wouldn't hashing be mostly int operations, while 3D graphics would be FP32? I dunno if they still do this, but nvidia used to artificially limit the rate for other float widths on geforce parts to segment the market.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by monocasa on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:55AM (#26190205)

There's plenty of integer ops in games these days. They do pretty arbitrary computation in compute shaders.

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