An “anti-crypto” bridle on the next Nvidia?

We have often been hard with Nvidia but yesterday’s announcement to install a device to “castrate” the next RTX 3060 and make it less efficient for crypto goes in the right direction.

An anti crypto clamp that goes beyond the simple update bios/driver ?

Many have mocked what they thought was at first a driver and then an easily replaceable bios. Nvidia has decided to go further and explain how her system will not be so easily bypassed. Nvidia officially took the floor to explain that for the RTX 3060, the technique implemented by the company to halve the mining performance is based on a triptych of Drivers, Bios and Hardware. Even if the chameleon does not claim that its system is 100% non-circulable, the company seems very confident that this strategy limits a large part of the inflation caused by cryptos.

No way to curb the RTX 30’s already in circulation

The other information allows us to understand that Nvidia’s bridle goes beyond simple bios and drivers. Because the brand has confirmed that the cards in circulation ( RTX 3070/80/90…) will not be impacted by this system. This implies that a simple update will not be able to bind them. This brings us to another hypothesis that has been repeated for the last few hours to the right and to the left. The current RTX cards (except the 3060) are now doomed. In the short term, we can expect the arrival of a new series. This series may not be a refresh but in any case it will integrate the now famous anti crypto clamping based on Drivers, Bios and Hardware. A solution to keep Geforce RTX cards for the consumer market. If this hypothesis is true, we can say that in this sum of deplorable events that shake us all, Nvidia will have been given a second chance A second chance to erase, no matter what marketing says, a disastrous launch that has undoubtedly considerably degraded Nvidia’s image with its real customers. Let’s hope that from the top of her mountain, Nvidia remembers that not all of us are lucky enough to have a second chance.