iTWire 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.
AMD, where are you? on May 3, 2021, 9:05 9 comments
In brief: Valve’s April Steam survey is here. Last month was a good one for Nvidia, which saw another of its Ampere line, the RTX 3060, finally make an appearance. Sadly for AMD, its Radeon RX 6000 series remains absent from the results nearly six months after the first cards launched.
The latest Steam survey participation in which is optional among the platform’s users shows no changes among the top five graphics cards. The GTX 1060 remains on top almost three and a half years since it replaced the GTX 750, followed by the GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1650, RTX 2060, and GTX 1050.