Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by knz_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:50PM (#27201697)

> I'd dreading Nvidia crippling deep learning for all those not paying X more dollars (as the situation already is for server farms).

This already changed years ago when NVIDIA removed the last non-crippled double and half precision GPUs from their product lineup. The cheapest GPU you can buy for ML now is the titan v, which was $3000 at launch.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by joe_the_user on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:10PM (#27201944)

I'm only planning at this point - so I don't know but am very interested. I see the RTX 3080 reviewed as the most cost effective chip you can get for deep learning. I have the impression a lot of research is moving to lower precision also.

https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by narism on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:55PM (#27204011)

They have been going the other way recently: Titan V ($3000) -> Titan RTX ($2500) -> RTX 3090 ($1500). The 3090 beats the Titan RTX in double precision and is close to 2x in single precision.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by fomine3 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:00PM (#27203715)

Scientific calculation need double but ML don't need double, isn't it?

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