GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to continue Nvidia's mining limiter strategy

[DanceswithUnix]

Yes, everyone is making out like all the shortage is due to miners, but judging from the very self-selecting Steam survey plenty of gamers have 3000 series cards so there is availability. (Radeon 6000 is less available but then it released later and is competing with consoles swallowing up so much of 7nm capacity.)

Oh some are trickling through to the usual end users, but I think the rage against mining is quite understandable. Each mining rig is 6 or 8 cards, so each happy miner is at the pain of quite a few normal users. If i thought crypto currency was long term viable it wouldn't be so bad, but the moment quantum computing comes of age all private keys become as good as public and the $40 in my crypto wallet are as good as gone. So the ecological disaster of cypto strip-mining is good for what?

[3dcandy]

Yes, everyone is making out like all the shortage is due to miners, but judging from the very self-selecting Steam survey plenty of gamers have 3000 series cards so there is availability. (Radeon 6000 is less available but then it released later and is competing with consoles swallowing up so much of 7nm capacity.)

Steam survey accurate? Erm.....nope
But I am still hearing that other countries (brexit cough) have done far better than us here in the UK for supply

[kompukare]

My point is more along the lines that I don't trust all the PR about Nvidia coming to save gamers, and that none of the shortage is due them cheapening out with Samsung's 8nm, or needing GDDR6X.
Still, they could easily turn the narrative to consolers vs PC gamers. At least for GDDR6 supplies.

[Dribble]

Nvidia alone shipped over $175 Million RTX cards straight to miners when they launched.
AMD and Nvidia have both been selling straight to miners. They're in the business of making money.
Given the countless things to mine aswell. Restricting just Etherium isn't going ot change much.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-allegedl...pus-to-miners/

You know that whole rumour being touted as fact comes from one site nobody had ever heard of, and they put the article behind a paywall. Chances are Nvidia sold nothing directly to miners, and that site was just trying to get a few more $$$.

[sheikh4321]

Yeah. I Understand that 12 GB Memory is just pathetic on the high of gpu's. yeah right 12 GB is hardly an upgrade

[mkloser]

Yeah, I understand about that 12GB memory high and not upgrade

[AC81]

You know that whole rumour being touted as fact comes from one site nobody had ever heard of, and they put the article behind a paywall. Chances are Nvidia sold nothing directly to miners, and that site was just trying to get a few more $$$.

When Linus covered the story. He said he'd heard before that AMD and Nvidia are delivering straight to the larger miners. So, it's not from one scource.
So, there's some wiggle room with the figure... But, it certainly looks like it has been happening and on a large scale.