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WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

Yeah, well, Nvidia may get better prepared for their own store, but most cards are sold through other retailers. And most of those don't give a sh!t about that because, in the end, a sale is a sale.

Now, if one or both actually managed to put hardware limitations to mining, making them mostly useless for that, now that would be a game changer.

Is it even possible for them to completely lock out mining without hurting the performance in general of the cards if they designed them with that intention from the start or would they only be able to put the LHR on them again still making them profitable for mining just not stupidly good?

The other problem would be the dedicated miner GPU's fighting for chip quota and if these are bigger profit margins for Nvidia it could just as easy push general gaming GPU's into a shortage situation once again.

I don't see why they couldn't. After all, Nvidia was able to limit the mining capcity of Ampere despite being a finished and already released product, which limits what you can do. If they take that into consideration while still designing the chips, the results could be much better, and target other crypto currencies other than Ethereum. The same goes for AMD, even if they've done nothing this gen.

As for crypto cards putting Ada Lovelace/RDNA3 on the backseat, it seems unlikely if only because both new architectures will be made on TSMC's 5nm, while the cryto cards, that usually rely on older architectures, will be made using other nodes. There shouldn't be any availability problems due to that.