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Wednesday, 19 May 2021 08:20
NVIDIA bid to stop new GeForce cards ending up in mining setups
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Graphics processing unit designer NVIDIA has announced that it will be reducing the ethereum hash rate on its GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards which are due to be shipped later this month, to make them less attractive to cryptocurrency miners.
This is to avoid the cards being snapped up for uses other than gaming, the company said in
"Because NVIDIA GPUs are programmable, users regularly discover new applications for them, from weather simulation and gene sequencing to deep learning and robotics," said Matt Wuebbling, the global head of GeForce Marketing. "Mining cryptocurrency is one of them."