As far as I remember, this was created to limit mining performance. If this cut-down is not going to affect performance in usual tasks like video editing and gaming, why do GPUs have it in the first place?
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No, they work by trying to detect when someone is specifically using the card for mining, and only reducing performance at that point. So it’s not like they just built the card and cut out a part that lets it mine, they just tried to make it smart enough to know when to throttle itself so it would be worse at mining.
A lot of the same functions that make GPUs good at mining also make them good at all the other tasks people use them for. That’s why people switched to GPUs for mining in the first place. So you couldn’t realistically remove that functionality entirely without actually impacting performance on other tasks. So instead they just tell it to look out for anything they don’t want you doing and then cut performance across the board while you’re doing it.
They say it’s unhackable, but that’s almost certainly not true. We didn’t really get to find out though since Nvidia released a test driver by mistake that didn’t include the limiter. So no one needed to make their own work around once they could get Nvidias. They are trying again with new cards soon, so maybe this time it’ll last a little longer.
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