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Twirrim
How long are we guessing it'll be until it is broken/bypassed? 1 week?
donkarma
It won't be broken if they're smart about it, one does not simply bypass certificate verification.
inshadows
I can bypass my OS certificate verification by installing my own CA. How does the mechanism wrt nVidia driver and hardware work to make mining impossible?
dragontamer
How does this hypothetical driver know that your GPU-compute is cryptocoin mining vs say... Blender rendering? Or any other CUDA program for that matter?
justaguy88
I'm pretty curious about the detection mechanism too
MikeUt
This will be hell for any non-mainstream code hoping to take advantage of GPUs. As if GPU performance debugging isn't hard enough already.
brokenmachine
It makes me shudder to think about, but I wonder if this might end up with Nvidia having their own GPU app store that you have to register apps on.
skynet-9000
Maybe they'll just take 30% of any crypto mined on their card. That seems fair.
arnon
How does this solve anything? They're still making "CMPs" for mining. The silicon is still the same. The card still needs to be produced the same way.

They're only saving a few dollars off the BOM on the HDMI/DisplayPort connectors.

antibuddy
It's rather hard to resell these cards, so this is clearly better for nVidia. (not so good for everyone else)
DangitBobby
Good for people who can't buy these cards because of miners.
RealityVoid
Neeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.
jhloa2
How are they supposed to just increase production right now? There's silicon shortages across most industries. In theory, lowering demand by limiting crypto mining efficiency should help give more people access to these cards.