Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by dahart on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:44PM (#26215419)

Strange theories on top of strange theories. The GTX 1080 is good enough forever? People are using 1080p forever? Games are staying put with the fidelity and textures and poly counts they had 5 years ago, and not improving any more? Last time I checked, there weren’t all that many games that run at 60Hz 1080p and never dip.

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by qqii on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:14PM (#26215672)

You're taking his words out of proportion. Just by looking at the steam hardware survey you'll see that the majority of gamers buy mid range cards and own 1080p monitors. The most popular games aren't the latest AAA titles either.

There isn't a game option survey but I'd bet most gamers with mid range cards run AAA games on medium as they value being able to play over a beautiful slideshow.

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by dahart on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:26PM (#26215773)

An Ampere mid-range card is different than a Pascal mid-range card, 3 or 4 generations older depending on how you count.

> I'd bet most gamers with mid range cards run AAA games on medium as they value being able to play over a beautiful slideshow.

Exactly, I agree. That statement supports what I said and contradicts parent's comment "the 1xxx series was more than sufficient for 1080p gaming".

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by qqii on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:04PM (#26216130)

The GTX 970 is just borderline whilst the GTX 1080 is "pretty much sufficient" for modern games according to this benchmark: https://youtu.be/bhLlHU_z55U

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by PartiallyTyped on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:00PM (#26216101)

What are you talking about here? My argument is rather simple and you are wilfully misinterpreting it to make your statement. If you want to game, at 1080p, there is very little reason to spend money on a big upgrade, even going with 3xxx series is an overkill.

> Last time I checked, there weren’t all that many games that run at 60Hz 1080p and never dip.

CITATION NEEDED.

The 3060ti is benchmarked at 4k hitting mid to low 50s in high settings in Shadow of the Tomb Raider and hitting 100fps at 1440p with 0.1% minimums at 90fps.

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by dahart on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:19PM (#26216249)

> even going with 3xxx series is an overkill.

Then why do you care at all about the 3060 segmentation into CMP cards?

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by PartiallyTyped on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:45PM (#26216457)

I dislike companies that pay lipservice or are pretentious like NVDA. On the positive side, I own shares, so I am making money off of it.

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by dahart on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:47PM (#26216470)

> I dislike companies that pay lipservice or are pretentious like NVDA. On the positive side, I own shares, so I am making money off of it.

Finally, the truth of the matter. ;)

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