I like what NVidia are doing with the 3060 cards and nerfing their mining abilities, perhaps gamers will get the chance to do some gaming.
I also think it is a good idea to have mining only cards, perhaps NVidia could charge extra for these and reduce the price of gaming cards.
Sorry guys it is just not funny when hardcore gamers can not get their hands on decent GPUs at reasonable prices.
I suspect this is the way all future NVidia card launches will go with separate lines for gaming and mining.
That statement surprises me. All that this Nvidia malarkey will do is cause miners to try to buy more "gaming" cards rather than "mining" cards due to the resale value of the mining versions will be zero, due to no gamer will want one. Secondly, they are going to find a way around this "nerfing" of these 3060s (I believe its these cards) so, good luck with that. They'll go after more gaming cards far more aggressively, so causing an even greater shortage of cards, and hence more difficult than it already is to get hold of anything remotely useful to gamers. It also means theres going to be less on the used market if / when digital mining collapses because all these mining cards that are just going to end up as E-waste 'cos no gamer will want one.
And lastly, the foundries can only churn out so many chips in any given time span. If they have to allocate a certain amount of the total production to these mining chips, then thats LESS chips available for gaming cards, means less availability, means even higher prices for gamers.
Call me a cynic, but thats how I see it, Nvidia is not your friend, they're out to make as much money and reduce manufacturing costs as far as possible.