[valine]

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.

[mx20]

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.

[valine]

FW locks aren’t effective. Most of those locked cards have jailbreaks to allow full speed crypto mining.