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Chazore said:

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).

Given enough time, sure, someone can dismantle it and etc. But the cryto boom we have seen is time limited. If the cryto boom dies by the time someone comes out with a hack, then it won't matter. The key is whether or not Nvidia's anti mining thing can last that long.

My belief in Nvidia until we see the results this time around is because they want to make more money. To them, selling an Ampere GPU to a miner or gamer makes no difference because a sale is a sale. But the problem with Ampere is that they can't make enough and they are the type of company to try and segment the cards as many ways as possible. It's why a 3090, which by all accounts is superior than a Titan V, gets heavily nerfed in certain workloads compared to the Titan V. Why? Cause they want you to buy a Titan V or Quadro if you want that type of a workload. There is no "free lunch" with Nvidia's mentality.

So to me, what they are trying to do here is the same thing. They know for a fact that even without the miners, Ampere would sell out in an instant. So what do they do? They are trying to eat their cake and have it too by resurrecting Turing from the grave and re-badging them as mining cards while nerfing the 3000 series and it's mining capabilities. That way, instead of making money from just selling Ampere cards which is already at full capacity, they can make money by selling both Ampere and Turing cards to different customers.

But yea, we will see how it goes. But I think that "just make more GPUs" and do nothing about it like what Linus is suggesting is not gonna be a good solution because they are already at full capacity.