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@Demolishun A few years back when miners bought up all the GPUs, nvidia introduced LHR (lite hash rate) which is basically some driver/firmware thingy that tries to detect if you are using a gaming card for mining and limits performance
Guess Im somehow triggering it. Maybe high compute throughput and low memory usage or something? -
@12bitfloat is it in the driver or the hardware? This kinda pisses me off. Who ruins their product like this (well, other than Apple)?
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So does this coincide with the disabling crypto mining feature?
https://theverge.com/2022/5/...
NVidia gets fined 5 million so they said fuck it and tried to soft disable it on their cards. However, I saw another article where the crypto miners are getting around that. I guess it is hard to blame nvidia for getting fined and having this reaction. I can kinda see why they would do that I guess. -
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@Demolishun they didn't get fined because of mining or an honest mistake. They got fined for misleading investors.
They found a way to make more money with dedicated a product line. -
@hjk101 it makes me wonder how they proved the tech being sold was used for crypto. I guess if the invoice says "ACME Crypto" that would be one indicator.
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