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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by bouncycastle on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:51PM (#27201722)
GPUs by definition are not general purpose computers. Remember the G in GPU stands for Graphics, not General.
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by jagger27 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:50PM (#27203987)
That hasn't been true in a very long time. You can run arbitrary code on a GPU.
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by JimBeans2131 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:10PM (#27204103)
Yes you can run arbitrary code extremely inefficiently, which reinforces the point they are not general purpose by definition.
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by 8note on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:30PM (#27203542)
Doesn't the G in GPU stand for Crypto now?
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