After HX GPUs for Mining, will NVIDIA Launch New Gaming GPUs?

NVIDIA's announcement of the new mining-only HX graphics cards has shaken the foundations of mining farms. Although these cards are expected to cost considerably less than gaming and knowing in advance that they will arrive in abundance, without video outputs, and with greater efficiency in terms of H / s / W, is it possible that NVIDIA ends up launching a whole new generation of Ampere-based GPUs (RTX SUPER) to liquidate existing RTX 3000s?

With the RTX 3060 about to hit the market, NVIDIA has already anticipated a lot of what it wants to do with its range of gaming GPUs: limit performance to mine. But the system that you are going to implement will not work, in theory, with the existing RTXs and given the number of cards that the miners have, the ban on the driver is easy to skip, since you would only have to install an older one.

Will NVIDIA release Ampere 2.0 cards in the style of the RTX SUPER range?

It seems that criticism from users is having an effect on NVIDIA. The HX range of graphics cards for mining cryptocurrencies is a balm that with it the company hopes to return to normal stock in stores for its players.

But this will not happen without the restrictions for miners and these will only be available from the models that are launched after the named RTX 3060. Therefore, and although what is sold cannot be covered by software and much less by hardware, the question is in the air and there are serious indications that it will be so: will NVIDIA end with the stock of the RTX 3000 to launch the RTX SUPER already capped for mining?

There are two aspects of this hypothesis: the first is the one mentioned just above, a new range of graphics cards, whether or not they are from the RTX SUPER range, or end up being called something else, such as the addition of Ti to their credit, for example. While the other hypothesis is that there would be no changes in the nomenclatures and with it other technical specifications, if not that NVIDIA would silently implement the improvements in its GPUs to block mining with its RTX 3000 range for gaming.

The demand and weight that NVIDIA would place on AIBs

The AIBs might not agree very much with the first of the hypotheses, since they have assured the sales of the GPUs due to the lack of stock, but new models would require new tests in R&D, new requirements for the PCBs, and of course, something new in terms of heat sinks or lighting systems as such to justify a little the price increase that would entail.

That is, new SKUs by NVIDIA imply new GPUs by AIBs, so the mixed option also begins to sound strongly as a possible third hypothesis not seen before: renaming the GPUs with a suffix or new name to differentiate them from the current RTX 3000 and so the AIBs only had to include a new firmware, keeping the same GPUs that they are selling now and only changing nomenclatures on the boxes and so on.

There is even talk of possible names outside of the hypothetical RTX SUPER range: RTX 3075, RTX 3085, and RTX 3095. Is it a solution that makes everyone happy? Will it be effective against miners since H / s are slower than RTX GPUs? Does the price of cryptocurrencies still compensate for the fact that there is less Hash performance?

We don't know, but what seems certain is that the mining industry is already working to bypass NVIDIA's restrictions with the RTX 3000. So if they succeed, these HXs will only be a palliative measure for a while, but they will still allow more. graphics cards reach gamers and not miners, which is a first step forward, albeit temporary.