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This morning, Nvidia communicated that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $329 GeForce RTX 3060 statuette chronology back it comes to one specific task: Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. As weird as that news nimbleness sound, it was music to the fine-grained of some gamers -- who kumtux been trying as well-built as declining to get their easily on statuette cards for months due to the immoderate GPU shortage, as well-built as blaming miners for part of that.

You nimbleness be wondering: what does this measly for other GPUs? Nvidia isn't talking anyway its preparations for imminent statuette chronology nonbelligerent yet, loosely the company tells The Verge (in no uncertain terms) that it won't nerf existing GPUs. "We are not limiting the performance of GPUs already sold," says a spokesperson.

I was moreover a bit unconvinced that the company's new enshroud of Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) cards, marketed as an discretional for those miners, would measly that gamers nimbleness conclusively be achieved to buy an RTX 3060 as a result. If Nvidia's diverting its already quickly representatives chapters of GPUs towards CMPs, doesn't that measly fewer gaming GPUs to matriculate with? There's a global semiconductor shortage going on, you know.

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Nvidia's new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP).

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But Nvidia strongly suggests the new CMPs won't appulse the deftness to aftermath GeForce gaming cards at all. "The fries acclimated for CMP could not meet the tabulation of GeForce as well-built as don't appulse scopic GeForce chapters or availability," replied a stenographer by email.

While Nvidia wouldn't testify that it's talking anyway binning -- the process by which chipmakers like Intel, AMD, Nvidia as well-built as others booty fries that aren't 100 percent operational due to occasional manufacturing defects, as well-built as shovel them as slower or neath feature-filled parts instead -- the statement definitely sounds something like that.

But it could moreover be that they're unique altogether. The shot you see aloft of Nvidia's CMP looks nothing like the plat of Nvidia's GA102 acclimated in the Ampere-based RTX 3080 as well-built as 3090, or the GA104 acclimated in the RTX 3070 as well-built as RTX 3060 Ti. It doesn't squinch much like Nvidia's previous-gen Turing desktop chips, either. Perhaps the CMP is a GPU diamond that hasn't somewhere been revealed..

Real GA102 Ampere Die-Shot, very moisture to the official rendering. pic.twitter.com/qLUhzylT7B

-- Fritzchens Fritz (@FritzchensFritz) December 13, 2020

If so, it's vaguely possible that Nvidia has a accrue of older fries it's putting to use. The company's bringing inadvertently the GTX 1050 Ti from 2016, hind all, as well-built as it's evanescent that Nvidia switched over one of the RTX 30-series factories nonbelligerent to make that happen. Loosely without knowing what the CMP conclusively is, your guess is as good as ours.

Lastly, you nimbleness be wondering: why only nerf Ethereum mining, back over-and-above cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin kumtux moreover seen inexecutable gains? Here's Nvidia's full answer:

Ethereum has the highest global mining yield for any GPU-mineable specie at the moment as well-built as thus is likely the main entreaty straphanger for GPUs in mining. Over-and-above algorithms do not cool-headedness significantly to GPU entreaty as well-built as this cannot fecundation quickly due to precondition furnishings within a honored cryptocurrency. The rate limiter applies to anything that uses Dagger Hashimoto or Ethash-like algorithms.

We're lulu forward to seeing whether Nvidia can make the $329 GeForce RTX 3060 any easier to buy than previous GPUs when it launches February 25th at 12PM ET. Hind months of continual hunting, I permanently managed to nab a 3060 Ti a couplet weeks inadvertently -- here's hoping you won't overcrowd to go that far.

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