Apparently it won't just be the driver limiting it: https://www.techpowerup.com/278712/...yond-driver-version-could-expand-to-more-skus
https://www.techpowerup.com/278712/...yond-driver-version-could-expand-to-more-skus "It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter." https://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=1031699#post1031699 Mining cards seem to be Turing.
Makes sense for them to do this, chips for gaming won't have been qual'd for continuous 24/7 number crunching od the scale that in being employed for mining, Nvidia could be in for a high level of returns and bad press on failing video cards, most likely from the second user of the card who has picked it up over priced from a miner who has upgraded to the next big thing. Anything for servers is most likely gone through a lot more validation and has the expectation it to run at this level and designed in boards with superior components and silicon, this costs more, so they charge more.
Yep, I thought the second to top 50HX looks fishy, can't be overclocked 3070 because memory bus but looks too power hungry than a cutdown 3080. 250w only 49 MH/s. Looks like a tweaked 2080 Ti. https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/...tx-2080-ti-ethereum-mining-results/index.html The top one is at 320w which suggests tweaked 3080. They've left a large gap between 50 and 90 for smaller die Ampere. And those will be the ones to get for power efficient mining. To be honest, simply having a few more production runs of 2000 series gaming cards isn't a bad thing. It's certainly much better than selling it as mining cards which likely ends up in the bin when mining craze dies off. Gaming cards can find homes via second hand market.
I'm thinking of selling my 1070 on ebay just to cash in on the herd stupidity. Everyone and their dog is mining, and the card I paid £190 for two years ago is now worth over £350 any day of the week. That's like...a once-in-a-lifetime event, it just doesn't happen to graphics cards. I figure I can afford to not play demanding titles for a few months. Just to be able to say I doubled my money over 2 years on a VGA - where at every other point in history they've basically halved in value every 2 years. Is it moral? I can't decide. But then nobody's being forced to go on ebay and spend £350 on a 4-year-old mid-range graphics card. VR and crypto aren't exactly human welfare necessities.
Do it, market determines what something is worth, if some one wants to pay that let them, everyone has a choice.
Flog it. I sold a 5700 xt within minutes for 525 , i felt bad about it until i actually thought why it sold so quickly. The miners who are paying the silly prices for them are earning from it. The £700 OTT price from overclockers i paid for my 6800 made it a worth while upgrade. Its all relative to the market.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASUS-ROG...484899?hash=item1ab3ba5d23:g:DhIAAOSw~iVgKUX5 ... i mean really .. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-GeFo...306530&hash=item2d24e491c6:g:oAEAAOSwrJJgKUla Madness. Sadly a true story.
Wow, that does seem to be rarer, when I had a flick through earlier they were more like £350-£400 buy-it-now
Still waiting on my Scan order for the PC - but I wonder - where does the "founders edition" sit in the grand scheme of these cards. EG, would it be a better purchase than, say, an ASUS ROG card? Or is it just around branding?
So cards are going for £200-250 above the retail they should be, when they are available at all. Is this some weird fever dream? I wanted a 3070 and now I look at the prices and I laugh and laugh...or was that cry? I'm not sure anymore.