News Crypto Mining Version of RTX 2080 Ti Crippled By PCIe Lanes in Gaming Test

[Admin]

Nvidia didn't want anyone gaming on its CMP GPUs for crypto mining, and removing PCIe lanes was part of its solution to block such use. But what happens if you try to work around the limitations?

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[DataPotato]

This just feels like Nvidia made the right hardware for the task (no extra PCI-E lanes, no video ports)? Or, rephrased, "Gasp, a card made not-for-gaming is bad at gaming when forced to play games".

 

[setx]

This just feels like Nvidia made the right hardware for the task (no extra PCI-E lanes, no video ports)?

It's just pure e-waste. The hardware isn't optimized for the task at all – just artificially crippled so it can't be re-used for other things. It's also undesirable for other GPU compute as often transfer speed is quite important.

 

[abufrejoval]

There must be more at play here...

My Phantom Canyon enthusiast NUC11 with an RTX2060m chip inside also just gets 4 lanes of PCIe for connecting the i7-1165G7 SoC with the dGPU and can use Optimus or direct output, depending on the video port you use and it performs quite well on anything full HD up to 60Hz and thanks to DLSS.

BTW those are still being sold at near GPU-less NUC prices, and prices are slightly going up.

I've also run games on V100s using VirtGL and VNC on Linux and Unigines Superposition was impressive enough even across 600km distance between the GPU and the rendering screen.

I'd recommend some CUDA testing to ensure there is nothing else afoul in the setup.

And you can always run LLMs on them, even if 11GB isn't giant, the bandwidth might be better than fully enabled GPUs at similar prices.

 

[artk2219]

"Nvidia stopped making them after it declared crypto had failed to "bring anything useful to society."

What they meant to say is "After we stopped making money hand over fist on them, and we built so many that we had a backlog of GPU's when the bottom dropped out of the market". Something more like that.

 

[Order 66]

If only this had 4 lanes of PCIE 5, then it wouldn't be so bad. That would be pointless for its intended purpose though.

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

Get a good board that allows the independent overclocking of the PCI-E bus. You have to swap out Nvme with Sata and you might be reachting 110 to 125Mhz of speeds.

Now multiply that by 4 and you got a nice bandwidth increase. Perhaps there's a bit of hope.