How does this hypothetical driver know that your GPU-compute is cryptocoin mining vs say... Blender rendering? Or any other CUDA program for that matter?
I'm pretty curious about the detection mechanism too
How long are we guessing it'll be until it is broken/bypassed? 1 week?
It won't be broken if they're smart about it, one does not simply bypass certificate verification.
I can bypass my OS certificate verification by installing my own CA. How does the mechanism wrt nVidia driver and hardware work to make mining impossible?
This will be hell for any non-mainstream code hoping to take advantage of GPUs. As if GPU performance debugging isn't hard enough already.
It makes me shudder to think about, but I wonder if this might end up with Nvidia having their own GPU app store that you have to register apps on.
Maybe they'll just take 30% of any crypto mined on their card. That seems fair.
How does this solve anything?
They're still making "CMPs" for mining. The silicon is still the same. The card still needs to be produced the same way.
They're only saving a few dollars off the BOM on the HDMI/DisplayPort connectors.
It's rather hard to resell these cards, so this is clearly better for nVidia. (not so good for everyone else)
Good for people who can't buy these cards because of miners.
Neeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.
How are they supposed to just increase production right now? There's silicon shortages across most industries. In theory, lowering demand by limiting crypto mining efficiency should help give more people access to these cards.