While I wholeheartedly agree that nvidia should do this, what bothers me is that they take functionality away without adding anything in or lowering the price. They are selling a "technically" inferior SKU for the same price.
> While I wholeheartedly agree that nvidia should do this, but bothers me is that they take functionality away without adding anything in or lowering the price.
Vendors are selling cards at 10-50% above MSRP and scalpers are selling them at 200-300% of MSRP precisely because they're usable for mining.
By breaking the mining incentive, they are dropping prices for consumers. Considerably.
They aren't really "selling" the unlocked RTX 3080, though. They go for $2500 on ebay, and you're essentially winning a lottery if you manage to get one at the advertised $800 price. In practice acquiring a restricted RTX 3080 is going to be a lot cheaper than acquiring an unrestricted one.
Due to supply constraints, retail does not represent the true price. 3080s are generally going for $3k on eBay right now. Their move is allowing the price of the card to LOWER back to retail price.
> take functionality away without adding anything in
coincidentally they just announced official support for GPU passthrough on consumer gaming cards, very likely as an olive branch to prosumers to calm the outrage over this issue.
