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 soheil on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:50PM (#26189891)

> it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption

Because it makes so much sense to dedicate equal or if not vastly greater resources to playing games?

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by smileybarry on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:05PM (#26201111)

Not even equal. A GPU running games can coast on 100W-150W usage, whereas mining can and frequently stretches it to full power capacity, e.g. 320W on RTX 3080. Not to mention that mining is 24/7, gaming is not.

So no, not equal, not greater, in fact lower. And I think the Graphics Processing Unit should process graphics, don't you?

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by snak on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:13AM (#26193326)

Gaming needs more resources to solve a problem whose difficulty is increased to produce better and more accurate images.

Mining needs more resources to solve a brute force problem whose difficulty is increased just for the sake of making the problem even harder to solve.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by account42 on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:52AM (#26191309)

Gaming needs the same cards, but they are not running at max 24/7.

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