Just two days ago, NVIDIA came out with a ban: Prohibition of the use of GeForce graphics card in the field of commercial-depth learning. Now a ban: Do not use the newly emerged GTX 1060 5G chicken for video mining operations.
NVIDIA believes that GeForce is used to play games, and for mining needs, you should use P106, P104 special products for mining special adjustment.
Faced with the hot mining activities, AMD has not been too much for the flow of graphics management, manufacturers casually toss the dealer, but NVIDIA is not the same, this is not, for most GTX 1060 6GB video card was bought by the major miners Mining led to the use of the game GTX 1060 6GB large area out of stock, the major Internet cafe owners would like to purchase GTX 1060 6GB can not buy the situation.
As a result, NVIDIA has banned the use of the recently released 5GB version of the GTX 1060 for mining, while the GTX 1060 5GB will not appear in the retail market but will be offered in direct quantities. If it is found misappropriated for mining, Will stop immediately to supply.
In fact, GTX 1060 5GB not only reduced the 6GB version of the video memory, but also reduce the bit width, the standard GTX 1060's 192-bit bit width reduced to 160-Bit, although for the current eating chicken game may not be affected, but the bit width Of the decline will result in a significant decline in the GTX 1060 5GB mining capacity, and may even have less than the standard width of the GTX 1060 3GB.
