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Discontinue the base 3000 line, and have 3000 CMP line, msrp starting at 999 for 3060 equivalent. LHR stays at current msrp.
No, they need the CMP and LHR lineups, the only thing that saved them from their last investor lawsuit was they managed to feign ignorance of the miners buying their cards that won't be an option this time around, the LHR and CMP cards give them a degree of deniability it will hold off lawsuits.
They have to offer it so they have a metric for “miner card sales” because when the bubble bursts and all those gaming cards are sold second hand and their first party sales tank investors will sue again. By heading it off and offering the CMP lineup and pushing the party line of “these are the mining cards, and look we made our gaming lineup unattractive as soon as we discovered a problem” they push the responsibility for the problem off themselves onto the AIB’s. It then falls on the AIB’s and retailers to disclose their sales to miners which they have no obligation to do, so potential future lawsuits about their sales to miners are nicely buttoned up.
Except for one glaring hole - they didn't hash limit their own FE cards. You know, the cheapest and highest demand cards, sold right from nvidia themselves.
They discontinued their direct online sale of the FE series back in Oct, instead of partnering with numerous brick and mortar stores to facilitate the FE sales. The FE parts are also limited supply not available in bulk purchase, so if say Best Buy is selling those to Miners in bulk NVidia's hands are clean because that is on the retailer.
Surprised that insulates them well enough. Still doesn't address why they chose not to LHR their line, or why they didn't adjust pricing. Limited supply applies for all cards, not just FE, there's no real good way to measure it in the current situation. They have still taken measures to make the FE cards the most desirable to miners.
They don't produce enough of them for it to really matter. Hell, they might've already stopped manufacturing them altogether at a certain point, and the little allocation trickling out to BestBuy stores is just standing stock emptying out in planned waves.
Really what they have done is make the 3090's the most valuable cards for miners, having worked with Best Buy for my recent RTX 6000 and 8000 purchases, we were joking about trying to toss a 3080TI in there for posterity and my rep said that they are lucky to get more than a dozen of those at their warehouse for distribution so he wasn't able to hook me up there :'( The FE cards only trickle in and they are lucky if they can get 2-3 out to their box stores every other week. Not exactly the type of orders a mining firm would want to deal with, they don't want to trickle in one or two cards every couple of weeks, they want to see them by the hundreds or thousands (depending on size). Because when things are good if they arent first then they are last, the mining bubbles are time sensitive so it's all about getting the most of your mining before the other big guys can catch up.
I don't know about the 3090s being most valuable, at a pure cost perspective they are not very efficient and two 3070 tis will outproduce a 3090 if they mine raven or ergo and swap it over to eth/btc/whatever, while having a lower total cost (outside of per slot efficiency.) You can easily google the profits of these coins, the market has already corrected for the lhr cards and nearly everyone always mines whatever is most profitable.
They won't. They're making too much money from miners. These LHR cards are just a typical PR stunt to make people think the company is doing something about it. They could give a shit less where the money comes from.
I really feel this was a horribly implemented trial run for them. I think unfortunately it will take a few more generations for them to fully block it, if ever.
Sounds like a big corporation to me.
which then it would drop to 102c then back up 110c, card was protecting itself from destruction (hopefully more effective than Gigabyte power supplies). Fans maxed out, 60% power limit, core underclocked did not stop over 100c temps. Went back to Nano Miner, 53mh/s junction temperature 92c. I thought my EVGA card was bad on cooling the DDR6x, this gigabyte card takes the award and cake for worst DDR6x cooling. Such a massive cooler for such crap performance for the ram. Will have to take it apart and redo the thermal pads, probably put some on the back side as well.You're better off doing ergo or raven anyway, by a long shot. Still significantly better than eth at 70% potential.Awesome Miner finally updated NBMiner to 39.1, no trojan either, hurray. It took hashrate from around 53 up to around 70mh/s on a Gigabyte 3080Ti, unfortunately that is not the only thing it took up. Memory junction temperature went right up to 110c
Yes, I did test Ergo and memory junction temperature was less than 90c and at a rate close to the 3090. Maybe lazy on my part, it is easy to mine ETH, transfer to Coinbase and convert to $ without going through an exchange process other than Coinbase. RVN I could auto convert to ETH so maybe I should check that out. This machine is hooked up to a 65" QLED TV, fantastic gaming setup but we don't game all the time so it gets extra duty paying for itself.
I read that Nvidia said that from now on ALL 3000 series GPUs will be LHR including the 3080 Ti FE. The only exception is the 3090 which makes sense since that is the top card. Here is a review of the 3080 Ti FE saying it has LHR.
The Nvidia A4000 launched at a $999 MSRP and runs about on par with the RTX 3060, and is not throttled.
Your Welcome. Here is the 3080Ti LHR on ERGO stable at around 240mh/s making estimated $7/day:
