NVIDIA’S New 30HX & 40HX Crypto Mining Cards Are Based on Turing Architecture
We have as of late found that NVIDIA’s recently reported 30HX and 40HX Crypto Mining Processors depend on the last-age Turing design. This news will come as a lovely shock to gamers as the delivery shouldn’t influence the accessibility of Ampere RTX 30 Series GPUs. The choice to stay with...
GeForce RTX 3060 Already Hits Second-Hand Market as NVIDIA Sours the Milk for Miners
NVIDIA’s yet-to-be-released GeForce RTX 3060 “Ampere” graphics card has already hit the second-hand graphics card market, as those with early access to RTX 3060 inventory have begun re-selling it. Belarusian tech marketplace Onliner listed these GIGABYTE RTX 3060 Eagle OC custom-design graphics cards for 2,800 BYN (USD $1,080) a piece, from a...
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Feature Goes Beyond Driver Version, Could Expand to More SKUs
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the company’s first Crypto Mining Processor (CPM) that serves the purpose of having a dedicated processor only for mining with no video outputs. Alongside the new processors, the company has also announced that in the next driver update the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU will get Etherium mining...
NVIDIA Announces New CMP Series Specifically Designed for Cryptocurrency Mining; Caps Mining Performance on RTX 3060
This is a big one: NVIDIA has officially announced a new family of products specifically designed to satiate the demand coming from cryptocurrency mining workloads and farms. At the same time, the company has announced that the RTX 3060 launch driver will include software limitations for cryptocurrency mining workloads specifically...
NVIDIA GPUs Have Hotspot Temperature Sensors Like AMD
NVIDIA GeForce GPUs feature hotspot temperature measurement akin to AMD Radeon ones, according to an investigative report by Igor’s Lab. A beta version of HWInfo already supports hotspot measurement. As its name suggests, the hotspot is the hottest spot on the GPU, measured from a network of thermal sensors across...
NVIDIA Seemingly Begins Resupplying GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPUs
In a move that speaks loads towards the current state of the semiconductor market, NVIDIA has apparently begun reseeding retailers with 5-year-old Pascal-based GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards. In some retailers (namely, Newegg), the card can still be found at $499, a vestige of tight supply since its discontinuation, and...
NVIDIA Stops Recommending “V-Sync OFF” As a Global Setting Since v461.09 Drivers
NVIDIA has stopped recommending “V-Sync OFF” as a global setting, starting with its GeForce 461.09 WHQL drivers. The NVIDIA Control Panel utility, which lets users configure global- and application-specific 3D settings, uses a tiny NVIDIA logo to denote recommended settings. Its V-Sync settings let you select between “Use 3D Application...
NVIDIA Faces Challenges: Qualcomm, Google, and Microsoft Protest Arm Acquisition
In September of last year, NVIDIA has officially announced that the current industry rumor about its big acquisition was true. The company has announced that it is acquiring Arm Limited from the Softbank Group. Paying as much as $40 billion for the purchase, NVIDIA is gaining access to the complete...
NVIDIA Confirms Specs of the GeForce RTX 3060 “Ampere”
NVIDIA made the product page of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card active on its website. The card is shown starting at USD $329, and NVIDIA confirmed some basic specs. The RTX 3060 is endowed with 3,584 CUDA cores, and comes with GPU frequency of 1.32 GHz, and maximum GPU...