Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by creato on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:36PM (#27201535)

One could argue this is the exact same thing: protecting their long-time customers from a small number of big customers (datacenters) that can afford to dramatically out-price their gamer customers temporarily, but might disappear (if they develop their own hardware?) not too long from now.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by babypuncher on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:49PM (#27201682)

I think it's more that Nvidia knows datacenter customers have the money to pay a premium for "datacenter grade" products.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by InvertedRhodium on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:24PM (#27202069)

Isn't that kind of the point? If consumers and enterprises were competing for the same product, we would probably see a similar situation as we are with consumers and miners.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by babypuncher on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:18PM (#27210698)

We would also see higher prices for consumers, since Nvidia would need to crank up higher profit margin a bit on their RTX cards to make the same average profit per chip sold without their high margin Quadro cards going to enterprise.

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