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Totally untrue. I've run many many tens of thousands of GPUs for years, in the worst of conditions (directly exposed to seasonal temperatures and environment)... they keep on ticking.

Power supplies on the other hand... those don't seem to last as long, but we open those up and they are hand soldered by someone in China.

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It's boggling to me that everyone is so entirely convinced of this fact. Check out this paper from google where they observe this exact process occurring in their CPUs at scale: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...

Given their conclusion that this is the result of manufacturing tiny process transistors, it follows that this can occur in GPUs as well.

You're conflating workload related issues (which is what I responded to) and manufacturing defects / electron weirdness.

Using GPUs for mining doesn't destroy them any more than using GPUs to render p0rn videos doesn't destroy them.

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