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Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by tyingq on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:05AM (#29484784)
It seems plausible given stuff like this:

"A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations," the company said in a statement. "The driver has been removed."[1]

So it's hard to tell when it's binning, and when it's hobbling.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/16/22333544/nvidia-rtx-3060-...

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Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by sixothree on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:30AM (#29485098)
They had to leak it at least once. But seriously, I thought they were clear about this being a driver implementation and not a hardware restriction.
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Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by tyingq on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:46AM (#29485292)
Yeah, they were not clear :)

“It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last month. “There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.”

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Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by my123 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:24AM (#29485833)
Signed firmware, probably why they are so reluctant to share those for newer cards for Nouveau… because it’d break their market segmentation.
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