| vivster said: So what would prevent miners to alter drivers and flash bios? |
It actually goes even deeper than that.
"On Twitter, Bryan Del Rizzo (Director of global PR for GeForce) confirmed that the anti-crypto technology works as a secure handshake between the driver, the GPU silicon, and BIOS."
So their "nerf" is even implemented at the silicon level. The key to Nvidia's strategy will more or less be three fold.
60 series cards have an anti mining drm
CMP cards will hopefully be cost effective enough to entice miners to go for them
Mining craze will die down soon enough for hackers to not come up with a bypass
The ways that Nvidia goofs this up is if their anti mining solution is terrible and gets hacked shortly after launch and the CMP series cards are not priced effectively thanks to Nvidia's greed. As the CMP series cards are based on Turing, they should be a lot cheaper to produce so if Nvidia prices similar to Ampere, they goofed as Ampere's efficiency is a lot higher.
Of course, those that don't want a 60 series card and want something higher will continue to get screwed unless Nvidia implements this for those cards as well.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
