Original article from Digital Foundry: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ine-crypto-at-half-speed-nvidia-cmp-announced
In a bid to keep their consumer GPUs out of the hands of crypto miners, Nvidia is planning to deliberately halve the hash rate of their 3060 cards when performing mining. At the same time, they will be selling factory seconds with no graphics output as mining cards under a new line called CMP. Hopefully this will help sort out some of the scarcity graphics cards have been having of late, although it would have been nicer for them to do it with the 3070 and 3080 as well, since they're only sold at outrageous markups where they're available at all.
In a bid to keep their consumer GPUs out of the hands of crypto miners, Nvidia is planning to deliberately halve the hash rate of their 3060 cards when performing mining. At the same time, they will be selling factory seconds with no graphics output as mining cards under a new line called CMP. Hopefully this will help sort out some of the scarcity graphics cards have been having of late, although it would have been nicer for them to do it with the 3070 and 3080 as well, since they're only sold at outrageous markups where they're available at all.