That’s like saying Porsche won’t release the base carrera when they can still sell GT2RS’s
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NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti to launch in January 2021?
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That’s like saying Porsche won’t release the base carrera when they can still sell GT2RS’s
Except people have the money at the moment for 3090s as gaming / using computers is one of the only things the vast majority of the world can do. A GT2RS costs slightly more
I doubt very much the 3080ti was ever scheduled to launch in January as they would have known months ago about the shortages that they were dealing with. That's just speculation from random sites knowing nvidia won't comment on what is currently an unannounced product.
Yeah, it was all rumours and speculation and not really practical to release an upgraded card after 3 months when supply was so terrible.
Nvidia doesn't use any anyway, the 3090 has 24 1GB modules - I belive the reason is that GDDR6x didn't support 2GB modules, not sure if it does now. But standard GDDR6 does support 2GB so I believe that's what AMD is using
That's all well and good but when you only have enough parts to make one or the other then I doubt Porsche would be cutting down on GT2RS which are already selling out as fast as they can make them just to knock out some cheaper Carreras with less margin on.
The miners are just buying anything at any price right now. Gamers cannot compete. Until there is a Bitcoin or Etherium crash they will keep buying up all inventory. I wish they would all move to this ASIC and leave gpu's alone.
Sad times for pc gaming.
Sad times for pc gaming.
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Miners are causing blackouts in Iran
Iranian officials decided to sell electricity to Chinese miners at very low prices (1.8 cents per kWh), miners then brought in a ton of cards and proceeded to mine and now they're having blackouts.
currently these Chinese miners have a combined base load of 300MW - that 260 thousand RTX3080 running 24/7
https://videocardz.com/newz/gpu-mining-farms-are-causing-power-outages-in-iran
Iranian officials decided to sell electricity to Chinese miners at very low prices (1.8 cents per kWh), miners then brought in a ton of cards and proceeded to mine and now they're having blackouts.
currently these Chinese miners have a combined base load of 300MW - that 260 thousand RTX3080 running 24/7
https://videocardz.com/newz/gpu-mining-farms-are-causing-power-outages-in-iran
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Mining is utterly bonkers from an ecological point of view. Wasting vaste amounts of power to do some unproductive maths. I wonder what will be thought of it in the future.
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Ethereum was designed to resist ASIC mining and runs best with single precision floating point calculations graphics card makes, any ASIC that it makes will pretty much have to beat a graphics card in 3D processing (and therefore better graphics card).
Governments seem to be blind to the climate and resource impact of mining. With many dying of cold due to the high price of heating it is crazy not to ban wasteful practices such as crypto mining. Why would you allow huge amounts of electricity to be wasted like this??
What future? Sadly it’s ignorance and greed that are the worst culprits but if we carry on the way we’re going I’d be surprised if our species had another 2-300 years.
I’m moving home in the summer and will be installing a 10Kw PV setup in the garden but not for mining purposes.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to Have Crippled Crypto-Mining Performance
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is likely to feature a hardware hash-rate limiter, much like the recently launched RTX 3060, according to kopite7kimi, a reliable source for NVIDIA rumors. The hash-rate limiter ensures that that crypto-currency mining performance of the card is significantly lower than what its hardware is capable of, so it doesn't remain viable for miners. The limiter works through a secure key exchange between the video BIOS, system firmware, and the driver; so driver-level modifications wouldn't affect it.
The RTX 3080 Ti is being launched to fill the large price-performance gorge between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Its rumored specifications wildly swing between a 12 GB memory setup maxing out the 384-bit memory interface of the "GA102" silicon; and 20 GB of it across a narrower 320-bit wide interface. The card allegedly features 80 out of 84 streaming multiprocessors (40 out of 42 TPCs) enabled, working out to 10,240 CUDA cores, 80 RT cores, and 320 Tensor cores. Below is a picture of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
kopite7kimi guessing the obvious again
... Nvidia made it clear the 3060 will be crippled and the previous releases won't be crippled via drivers or any method, but also that said heads up all next cards will be crippled. So he's a genius is kopite7kimi...
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is likely to feature a hardware hash-rate limiter, much like the recently launched RTX 3060, according to kopite7kimi, a reliable source for NVIDIA rumors. The hash-rate limiter ensures that that crypto-currency mining performance of the card is significantly lower than what its hardware is capable of, so it doesn't remain viable for miners. The limiter works through a secure key exchange between the video BIOS, system firmware, and the driver; so driver-level modifications wouldn't affect it.
The RTX 3080 Ti is being launched to fill the large price-performance gorge between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Its rumored specifications wildly swing between a 12 GB memory setup maxing out the 384-bit memory interface of the "GA102" silicon; and 20 GB of it across a narrower 320-bit wide interface. The card allegedly features 80 out of 84 streaming multiprocessors (40 out of 42 TPCs) enabled, working out to 10,240 CUDA cores, 80 RT cores, and 320 Tensor cores. Below is a picture of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
kopite7kimi guessing the obvious again
... Nvidia made it clear the 3060 will be crippled and the previous releases won't be crippled via drivers or any method, but also that said heads up all next cards will be crippled. So he's a genius is kopite7kimi...kopite7kimi guessing the obvious again
lol, it's funny how they cite this crap like they have insider info when it's obvious that it's very likely that will be on the cards.
Yup clickbait rubbish as always.
This part made me laugh "The RTX 3080 Ti is being launched to fill the large price-performance gorge between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090."
The price will end up same as 3090s now but with 12GB VRAM and then push up 3090s to £3k as has been happening slowly.. let's all get real if they even release a 3080Ti.
In other breaking news that has to have been acquired via insider info, the 4000 series will be faster..
It's like mystic meg from the lottery or one of these BS mediums throwing out as many possibilities as they can and getting lucky with one hitting or stating the blindingly obvious.Exactly mate... reality regarding 4000 series , it will be a minimum of 2 years from release of 3000 series and can be longer as Nvidia has done before.In other breaking news that has to have been acquired via insider info, the 4000 series will be faster..
I love reading people state i'm waiting for 4080 or 4090 .. not realising over 2 years before they get their hands on it and if it comes out in the 2 year cycle Nvidia does if they are releasing quickly. They forget the year after is refreash of the cards eg. supers or whatever they will call them this time and then a year after the new series of cards if ready.