Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 GPU to limit Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. New drivers will specifically limit mining efficiency by around 50%. Full details here: https://t.co/FJNdR88hGE pic.twitter.com/zooPelzR5q

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 18, 2021

This is a very good move by Nvidia. ?https://t.co/eGnXU2zG2B

— Patrick Moorhead (@PatrickMoorhead) February 18, 2021

Wow Nvidia has launched a GPU mining division for Ethereum https://t.co/NwsjUdF4d7

— Wong Joon Ian (@joonian) February 18, 2021

.@NVIDIAGeForce says they'll purposefully lower the mining capabilities of the RTX 3060 through drivers; announces a dedicated GPU mining line https://t.co/OQ9W1lG2QF pic.twitter.com/rhnYkPQLNz

— PCMR (@OfficialPCMR) February 18, 2021

Yo, I get chip shortages are a thing and cryptomining is really terrible for the environment but this is a great case study for why open drivers are important, b/c this is pretty messed up. https://t.co/TbxSGCioMh

— Christina Warren (@film_girl) February 18, 2021

1. Proof of work was a mistake.
2. Pushing people to a special SKU for an exploding market is nasty behavior. https://t.co/QdzNU7GLX1

— Nathan Lawrence ? (@NathanBLawrence) February 18, 2021

NVIDIA trying to nerf Eth perf on GeForce cards is a very interesting idea. I have some sizable concerns that it won't work (miners are crafty), but it doesn't hurt to try. The good PR doesn't hurt, either. https://t.co/itVzyQxE9Z

— Ryan Smith (@RyanSmithAT) February 18, 2021

What gets me is the push for CUDA on GeForce in one breath — and CUDA is amazing — and also doing this. “GeForce is for gamers...and also ML workloads” https://t.co/U3mf76KeBY

— Christina Warren (@film_girl) February 18, 2021

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Nvidia announces dedicated crypto mining GPUs and says RTX 3060 GPU will detect the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm and limit the hash rate by 50% https://t.co/L3jEoits1T

— Dmitry Buterin (@BlockGeekDima) February 18, 2021

これのことか、やっとゲーム好きの人たちにグラボ回ってくるね
NVIDIA Annoucnes CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX GPUs For Mining, Cripples Hash Rate Of RTX 3060 https://t.co/MK7O0jbjQU

— ぽっぽのhana⛩?.*·̩͙ (@mainecraft_love) February 18, 2021

"NVIDIA has finally conceded to the overwhelming mining demand facing the GPU market right now and launched a lineup of dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPUs [with no display port]" $NVDA https://t.co/JPHhIdju05

— Liberty (@LibertyRPF) February 18, 2021

Everything is going to change before our eyes. Way to go Nvidia! https://t.co/i5S56O8D4t

— Marc Aranibar (@MarcAranibar) February 18, 2021

Tip @Techmeme

The surprise announcement by NVIDIA.https://t.co/WNLnvUikPB

— Usman Pirzada (@usmanpirzada) February 18, 2021

Interesting move by NVIDIA. Can we even call them GPUs anymore since they dont have display ports? It's clear NVIDIA wants us to refer to them as CMPs. #NVIDIA #ETH #Mining https://t.co/WNLnvUikPB

— Usman Pirzada (@usmanpirzada) February 18, 2021

NVIDIA announces NVIDIA CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor), a new product that is focused on mining and doesn't do graphics

RTX 3060 will launch with a driver that limits the hash rate for mining by 50% to ensure they land in the hands of playershttps://t.co/5HM61YcQJt pic.twitter.com/VSZ7h1pwxD

— Nibel (@Nibellion) February 18, 2021

Today @nvidia announced a dedicated GPU for professional mining dubbed CMP

To further reduce RTX demand from miners, the RTX 3060 will have about a 50% limited hash rate (cryptocurrency mining efficiency)

Overall a win-win for gamers & miners ?https://t.co/zcMjKD3p57 pic.twitter.com/0OYSeYIl1D

— Newegg (@Newegg) February 18, 2021

NVIDIA announces NVIDIA CMP (#Cryptocurrency Mining Processor), a new product that is focused on mining and doesn't do graphics. https://t.co/FFkXszUrvu #fintech pic.twitter.com/lYzZLEqy48

— Chris Gledhill (@cgledhill) February 18, 2021

So, uh, Nvidia is artificially slowing down GPUs when they detect mining? This feels like the ECC RAM GPU issues of the early AI/ML days

h/t @GuilleAngeris https://t.co/KwdjxpCRzs

— Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra) February 18, 2021

I'm often calling out Nvidia on stuff they do that's anti consumer (GeForce Partner Program anyone?).

This time, they deserve all the praise they can possibly get for this move.

Proof of Work is a huge climate killer and unbelievably last decade.https://t.co/IscGOaBSK4

— JJ - PimpmuckL (@JJLiebig) February 18, 2021

NVIDIA halves ETH hash rate of RTX 3060 to make it less attractive to miners. Hopefully this makes it easier for gamers to get an RTX 3060, despite historically high ETH prices.

DLSS is going to be great on the 3060!https://t.co/KmCnzUiKcG

— Bryan Catanzaro (@ctnzr) February 18, 2021

.@NVIDIAGeForce says they'll purposefully lower the mining capabilities of the RTX 3060 through drivers; announces a dedicated GPU mining line https://t.co/OQ9W1lG2QF pic.twitter.com/rhnYkPQLNz

— PCMR (@OfficialPCMR) February 18, 2021

This is interesting. I had suspected miners were a contributing factor to GPU shortages since the 3000 series from Nvidia and 6000 series from AMD were significant GPU upgrades. Nvidia is drawing a line between GeForce and CMP.https://t.co/c2MjhLtG3m

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 18, 2021

Nvidia announces four new graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining, says they won't affect GeForce availability. https://t.co/7Qna8xEpH5

— PC Gamer (@pcgamer) February 18, 2021

$NVDA reveals new chips designed to mine #Ethereum https://t.co/7lQMygQEoZ

— Market Rebellion (@MarketRebels) February 18, 2021

Nvidia announces new chips designed for ether mining as the cryptocurrency hits record highs https://t.co/XzusZTcKab

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) February 18, 2021

I'm not a big fan of software-locking hardware. "“RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate ... by around 50 percent". https://t.co/I2n0VjKeQs

— David Brumley (@thedavidbrumley) February 18, 2021

Nvidia cryptocurrency mining processor for Ethereum announced https://t.co/aQpMafdD11

— G.A.R Capital (@garcapital) February 18, 2021

Nvidia announces new chips designed for ether mining as the cryptocurrency hits record highs https://t.co/kzfJty6FQR

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 18, 2021

NVIDIA to Launch Processor Tailor Made for Ethereum Mining (via @decryptmedia) https://t.co/rUkJvDek3w

— thecreative.eth (@GawainBracy) February 18, 2021

엔비디아, 암호화폐 채굴용 GPU 발표 + RTX 3060 GPU 에서 암호화폐 채굴 알고리즘 감지해서 해시율 50% 제한 시작

GeForce Is Made for Gaming, CMP Is Made to Mine | The Official NVIDIA Blog https://t.co/mvSFTGBmWZ

— lunamoth (@lunamoth) February 18, 2021

Nvidiaが仮想通貨マイニングプロセッサ（CMP）シリーズをEther用にリリースすると発表。PCゲーム用のプロセッサが相次いで売り切れていたのはゲーミングに加えてマイニングの利用もあったからという話。CMPはグラフィックに対応しない分マイニングの効率が上がるそう。https://t.co/7EdGTIAqPM

— 今村咲 (@saki_imamura) February 18, 2021

Nvidia announces new chips designed for mining Ethereum as the cryptocurrency hits record highs $ETH $BTC #Bitcoin https://t.co/cQyBXIUdeM

— Jayden Crypto ? (@jayden_crypto) February 18, 2021

Nvidia's RTX 3060 comes with heavy cryptocurrency restrictions, pushing miners towards Nvidia's new dedicated mining cards - and away from the public supply of RTX GPUshttps://t.co/jDlwIbb7gf

— Digital Foundry (@digitalfoundry) February 18, 2021

Good news, drivers will limit hash rate of mining on 3060s. I assume this will be implemented in all future GPUs which should increase availability.

Won't affect game performance, just detect mining software.https://t.co/wOgysg3URm

— owledge hub (@KnowledgeHubTy) February 18, 2021

This is such a good idea - assuming that it actually prevents miners from buying RTX 3060 cards and isn't easily circumvented! https://t.co/AvmNYxnIAi

— Will Judd ⌨️ (@wsjudd) February 18, 2021

https://t.co/ACrwEVM5bu
RTX3060のマイニング性能を半分に
ですが問題がないわけではありません

明らかな問題はより広いインターネットがそれに気を配るとソフトウェアブロックは通常非常に簡単に克服されるという事実である可能性があります

ソフトウェアブロックは簡単に無効化出来る懸念に注意

— ?アヤコさん? (@14ayakosan) February 19, 2021

엔비디아가 '암호화폐 채굴 전용' GPU 제품 CMP 30HX/40HX/50HX/90HX를 발표 https://t.co/Rn4UKORi2a
CMP 30HX 및 40HX는 1분기 중, 50HX 및 90HX는 2분기 중 출시 예정.
한편 이달 25일 출시하는 RTX 3060 제품은 드라이버에서 이더리움 채굴 효율을 약 50% 제한할 것이라고...

— H. Kim (@metavital) February 18, 2021

What a terrible engineering task to give someone -- figure out when we are being used for this thing we are quite good at, and break it. If the CMP cards are priced similarly they will be a nice addition, but I suspect not. https://t.co/PDgJCPK8xQ

— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 18, 2021

I wonder if this could potentially adversely affect machine learning workloads and other non-mining GPGPU computations that could potentially be falsely detected as a mining operation. The idea of software-based limiters for hardware makes me feel uneasy.https://t.co/czB3EReDxb

— Michael McThrow (@mmcthrow) February 18, 2021

Now the question is how long will it take for a patch to emerge to fix this on some ETH / BTC forum. Some day, perhaps?https://t.co/avLl0xSPdb

— Underfox (@Underfox3) February 18, 2021

Nvidia: We’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners, and launching Nvidia CMP for professional mining @elonmusk https://t.co/pNWzjP12xJ

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) February 19, 2021

"#RTX3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent"https://t.co/2cq8mTNOcZ

— Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 (@MisterTechBlog) February 19, 2021

逆にRTX3060はマイニングに対してデバフを掛けるらしい https://t.co/7lZUzc2MUk

— そすうぽよ（早寝早起き） (@_primenumber) February 19, 2021

ブログもあったhttps://t.co/DcBHUCfMfp

— Katsuaki Kato (KTU) (@kato_kats) February 19, 2021

엔비디아에서 CMP, 즉 디스플레이 포트가 없는 암호화폐 채굴 전용 GPU를 출시한다고.
추가로 RTX 그래픽카드 드라이버에 채굴 프로그램 알고리즘을 감지해 효율 제한 50%를 거는 업데이트도 한다고 함.https://t.co/hY1FdoIcMK pic.twitter.com/aocumz4BNR

— 단아루 (@danaru_x) February 19, 2021

Trending $ETH news with the most shared links across social posts is "@nvidia announces new chips designed for mining #Ethereum as the #cryptocurrency hits record highs" via @CNBC @kifleswing https://t.co/R2FET5gfX7

— LunarCRUSH Social Listening for Cryptocurrencies (@LunarCRUSH) February 19, 2021