Nvidia's Turing GPU may be a dedicated cryptocurrency mining card

[TheF34RChannel]

@AlienALX why didn't I think of that, exclude mining through the drivers. Is there a way to call them out on that? I'd be happy to do it personally!

I was actually considering getting a 2nd Titan Xp for SLI but really can't be bothered with SLI problems.

You're right not to pay that price for the hassles SLI brings.

 

[NickOmega]

Trust me, it is very very easy to stop people mining on GPUs. All it takes is a couple of tweaks to the driver, and bios, and it would be impossible.

@AlienALX why didn't I think of that, exclude mining through the drivers.

It wouldn't work, most miners are running modified BIOS and don't use latest drivers anyway.

 

[Dicehunter]

It wouldn't work, most miners are running modified BIOS and don't use latest drivers anyway.

They could implement it on a hardware level so when it detects any mining software or activity it will cease working.

 

[ByteMyAscii]

They could implement it on a hardware level so when it detects any mining software or activity it will cease working.

Is there anything unique to mining that determines that.
It works because it was targeted at accessible capabilities.
All it would take is another currency to be targeted at something else, such as core gaming functionality.
That isn't a solution.

 

[NickOmega]

They could implement it on a hardware level so when it detects any mining software or activity it will cease working.

I was just addressing the suggestion of driver/bios limitation since it would be wholly ineffective.


I'm not sure how your suggestion would work out either really. Ultimately when mining all the GPU is doing is calculations, same as always, and the list of mining software and variations thereof is too vast and changeable.
However, if i'm wrong and there is some fundamental difference in the workloads that would allow the activity lock to work then fair enough, but imagine the backlash if there were false positives and it's locked at the hardware level.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Now let me burst your bubble Mark Steve from ask gn said (latest) it's indeed called Turing - consumer gaming cards. There is no Ampere.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Really, nothing regarding this nice news that the upcoming gamer GeForce architecture will be called Turing and that the Ampere label was a sham?

I also find it clever, from a business perspective, that they won't invest in a dedicated mining card. I do feel they should somehow disable mining on their gaming cards, as we're discussing above, or (from a consumer perspective) indeed release dedicated mining cards. We should bide our time; mining isn't here to stay, it's just a question of how long it'll be around - with any bad luck a long time :/

 

[trawetSluaP]

I was actually considering getting a 2nd Titan Xp for SLI but really can't be bothered with SLI problems.

I'd settle for one of those Imperial Titan's TBH. Quite frankly the sexist GPU I've seen. If I had a spare £1000...