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paxys
on May 18, 2021
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Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 ...
There are tons of use cases for GPUs outside of output to a display: audio/video encoding, render farms, scientific computing.
NazakiAid
on May 19, 2021
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True. I just assumed people (or most likely companies) who are doing these types of things generally will be buying the latest GPU new as they have more money to spend (and want to get a good life out of the card).
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