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by hoseja 1201 days ago
Soon you'll need a government license to purchase serious compute.
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valine 1201 days ago
Our saving grace seems to be the insatiable push by the gaming industry for better graphics at higher resolutions. Their vision for real-time path traced graphics can’t happen without considerable ML horsepower on consumer level graphics cards.
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mx20 1201 days ago
They can just slow down certain algorithm on gaming cards via firmware. I think they already did this for Crypto Mining on some Gaming cards.
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valine 1201 days ago
FW locks aren’t effective. Most of those locked cards have jailbreaks to allow full speed crypto mining.
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zirgs 1201 days ago
Yesterday's "serious compute" is today's mid-range PC.
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