This $5000 Graphics Card Can’t Game

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This $5000 Graphics Card Can’t Game

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I wasn't going to watch this originally, but it turned out to be rather geekily interesting.

Linus actually disassembles this $5000 Nvidia enterprise class crypto mining card. The engineering is interesting. Then they wind up testing it by mining Etherium on it, and easily doubles the performance of a 3090, mainly because of the wickedly fast, but hideously expensive, on-die memory.

Interestingly, this uses silicon meant for enterprise compute GPUs that failed to meet the spec, so it's making use of GPUs that would otherwise go to waste.

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