With a change, Nvidia sought to make graphics cards uninteresting for miners. Now, a miner has explained that the restriction is unimportant for most users.
What kind of restriction is this? Nvidia had announced a few months ago that it wanted to make graphics cards uninteresting for miners. For this, they first adjusted the software and then the chip of the graphics card. This way, the performance in mining decreased. However, the first restriction was cracked by miners.
Nvidia had introduced a special mining graphics card for miners to provide them with an alternative. Now, a miner has commented on the situation and explained what miners think about it.
Miners consider Nvidia’s measures against miners to be “pointless”
Who is speaking? The narrating miner claims to have around 95 graphics cards installed in his mining rig, most of which are RTX-3000 GPUs. He earns about 4500 USD per month with Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, which is around 4000 Euros after deducting electricity costs.
“Yes, I consider LHR to be pointless,” he explains, adding that this restriction presents absolutely no obstacle for miners.
Another miner explains that while the yield with the modified cards is lower, it wouldn’t stop any miner.
If you have the choice, miners will of course opt for non-LHR cards, but the fact that a card is LHR will not stop them from buying it.
Additionally, greedy scalpers are also a major problem for miners, as they buy everything that comes their way to extract money from every graphics card. Many miners ultimately don’t care whether they buy a regular graphics card or a mining graphics card, as all are hardly available. The prices are all high in the end:
Many people, miners and scalpers, are still buying cards at the same prices as before. I bought the LHR cards because the scalpers took everything and there was no great selection.
AMD tries to make graphics cards uninteresting for miners with low video memory
The direct competitor of Nvidia had another idea to make graphics cards unattractive for miners. AMD introduced its RX 6500 XT as hope for gamers. AMD deliberately limited the graphics card’s video memory to 4 GB. That’s so little that it’s hardly profitable for miners to gather cryptocurrencies with such a graphics card.
Nevertheless, AMD disappointed many users and testers with its RX 6500 XT. Despite the idea of making the graphics card uninteresting for miners, the small Radeon graphics card particularly fails due to its weak performance. For many gamers, 4 GB of video memory may simply be too little in 2022.
You can read a detailed report on the situation and the tests here on MeinMMO:
The tests on the Radeon RX 6500 XT show how broken the graphics card market is
