This morning, NVIDIA announced that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $ 329 GeForce rtx graphics card. The $ 329 graphics card was music to the ears of some gamers, who have been trying and failing to get their hands on graphics cards for months due to the great GPU shortage.

Nvidia tells the verge that it wo n’t Nerf existing GPUs.’we are not limiting the performance of GPUs already sold,’ says a spokesperson.

The company’s new batch of cryptocurrency mining processor (CMP) cards would mean gamers might be able to buy an rtx 3060 as a result. There’s a global semiconductor shortage going on, you know.

The chips used for CMP could not meet the specifications of GeForce and do n’t impact overall GeForce capacity or availability.

Nvidia would n’t confirm that it’s talking about binning – the process by which chipmakers like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and others take chips that are n’t 100 percent operational due to occasional manufacturing defects.

The CMP does n’t look much like NVIDIA’s previous-gen Turing desktop chips, either. Perhaps the CMP is simply a GPU design that has n’t publicly been revealed.

Real ga102 ampere die-shot, very close to the official rendering. Real ga102 amprtem (real ga102) ampere die-shot.

Nvidia is bringing back the GTX 1050 TI from 2016. It’s doubtful that Nvidia switched over one of the rtx 30-series factories just to make that happen.

Nvidia explains why only Nerf Ethereum mining has seen incredible gains. Other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have also shown incredible gains.

The rate limiter applies to anything that uses dagger Hashimoto or ethash-like algorithms. Other algorithms do not contribute significantly to GPUs demand.