[Shared404]

My understanding is that Nvidia's move was universally condemned.

AMD's just taking advantage of Nvidia's blunder.

[ttt0]

Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.

[rrss]

nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades

e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores

[mancerayder]

486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.

[seaourfreed]

Why did Nvidia work to block crypto mining on their video cards? (I don't buy "because gamers couldn't buy them")

Can someone explain why they think nvidia really did this?

[proce55ing]

The cards that have access to mining lack a video output. Once they become unprofitable to mine with they won’t impact the gaming market on resale.