| Captain_Yuri said: The thing is, we don't know how effective Nvidia's anti mining solution is going to be. If the 3060 series comes out and it's gets hacked within day 1 (or relatively soon after) and becomes a nothing burger, then I would absolutely agree that Nvidia put zero effort into it. But the problem is, we don't know how effective Nvidia's anti mining thing is. The only thing we know is that it's being implemented at a Driver Level, at a BIOS level and at a Silicon level. But Linus in the video doesn't even know that it's being implemented that deeply. The e-waste is the main thing I don't like about Nvidia's strategy as he is 100% correct about it. But outside of that, most of the CMP cards are supposed to be based on Turing which is a completely different fab than Ampere Geforce as Turing is using TSMC's 14nm vs Ampere Geforce is using Samsung's 8nm. So if the miners do go for the CMP, majority of the cards won't affect Ampere Geforce allocation at all which will in theory make the situation better. Especially if Nvidia's anti mining solution turns out to be good and it gets implemented through the rest of the 3000 series line up which is currently rumored to. Instead, Linus just did a knee jerk reaction video with little effort without actually waiting to see the results. Maybe the anti mining solution will have a easy work around but we should at least wait and see how it does before burning them. Because it's consumers that wanted Nvidia to do something and I'd much rather have Nvidia or any other company try things than lie on their backs doing nothing. Cause otherwise, this mining issue will happen again, and again, and again... And I'd rather not just rely on my luck to get a GPU. |
Linus pointed this out in that vid, about what happened before, and it could end up happening again.
Most of the time someone makes something, someone else is able to come along and modify/dismantle it. I wouldn't really think Nvidia has an invincible solution to this issue, or at least one that will outlast miners/tinker folk for long.
Sure we can wait and see, like we do for a lot of stuff in life, but you gotta realise that if they fuck this up for the second time, it'll be time to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I'm looking at this differently from you and some on here, in that I'm looking at the worst case scenario first, and if it turns out to not be bad at all, then I'll know what they said was supposed to be happening (like it should when they say they are going to do something, it should be done and yield results). This is why I'm not really giving them the benefit of the doubt, because at this point, anything could happen and we've seen them get greedy before, and we can see them not doing anything about partners like Zotac taking the piss. So me expecting them to crush or tide over the mining craze, is at an all time low.
If they don't manage to squash it this time round, I really don't expect them to do something big about it again in the future, because you and I both know that they still profit from this, and like a business, they only care for money (which is ultimately a shit mantra to have, and it's why Linus is calling it as is and I think that needs to be hammered home really hard into people's skulls as to why that mantra is what it is, and that it's really shit).
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
