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 lot of three cards.
NVIDIA announced that the company plans to tackle the problem of crypto-currency miners soaking up inventory of GeForce “Ampere” graphics cards, beginning by designing the GeForce RTX 3060 to be bad at mining, putting out half the hash-rate it normally should, with the specs at its disposal. The company claims to be using an elaborate mechanism to enforce this hash-rate limiting, so miners can’t work around by modifying the drivers. We’re also hearing that the company could revise other RTX 30-series “Ampere” products with hashrate limiters, so they become unviable for crypto mining.
Source: VideoCardz , Techpowerup
