videocardz NVIDIA to launch a new GA106-302 GPU for GeForce RTX 3060 to reintroduce Ethereum mining limiter

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According to HKEPC, NVIDIA is set to launch a new Ampere GPU variant with a better cryptomining limiter. The new GPU codenamed GA106-302 would replace the GA106-300 in GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. This new chip would receive a new PCI Device ID which would render any existing drivers useless.

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This bugs me 

 

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What may be important to customers is that NVIDIA will not differentiate the new variant of RTX 3060 from the already existing one with GA106-300 GPU.

 

Companies should be forced to declare differences/revisions plainly and clearly to customers.

 

[Odyn]

Booo I say.

[J7SC_Orion]

...strange times we live in (image from Hardwareluxx via Videocardz)...better get some white-out 

  

[Sir Beregond]

6 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

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This bugs me 

 

 

Companies should be forced to declare differences/revisions plainly and clearly to customers.

 

 

This reminds me of the debacle with Pascal where they kept offering different model/VRAM equipped models like a DDR4 1030 along with the DDR5 1030 but they were both just called a 1030. Not to mention how many different 1060 models in the end?

 

This really chaps my hide when they pull nonsense like this.

 

One guy on that other forum had RMA'd his 3090 and the replacement he got back similarly had a 3080 Ti chip crossed out and the 3090 die name written. Meanwhile it OC'd way worse than the card they originally RMA'd.