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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[The Register article states:](https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/nvidia_ethereum_rtx_gpus/)
The chip-design giant developed driver-level software to detect when its hardware was being used for proof-of-work algorithms used in mining cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. The mining efficiency or hash rate is reduced by 50 per cent in these cases, making the chips less attractive to miners and in theory more available for video game players.
In basic terms this means the GPUs know when they are being used for mining and reduce their processing, for gaming they perform at full capacity.
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