Anyone who's been trying to get hold of an Nvidia RTX card lately knows the struggle, as stores continue to shrug their shoulders over when stock will be coming back in. It was even announced recently that these shortages could have had an impact on Nvidia's RTX 3080Ti range. However, it appears as though the hardware company has a solution that could make a lot of people happy.

One of the reasons behind low supplies of the RTX cards may be down to people purchasing them in bulk in order to set up GPU farms for mining cryptocurrency. To solve this, Nvidia has announced that it will be launching a new range of graphics cards that will be used just for mining. These GPUs, according to a report, will operate at lower voltages and have no video output whatsoever. This means the new range will be useless as actual video cards, and PC gamers need not give them a second glance, but it also means miners can lay off the standard GPU choices.

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On top of this, Nvidia says it will also be releasing GPU drivers that will curb the potential for its RTX cards to be used for mining purposes. These drivers are said to be launched just ahead of the launch of its midrange RTX 3060 cards, which are coming at the end of this month.

The mining GPUs will be sold by authorized partners, not too dissimilar to the Quadro range. Nvidia has been on the lips of many PC gamers and hardware enthusiasts, not only because of the RTX shortages, but also because of controversies over the allegations that its 3080Ti cards had been downgraded. That aside, dedicating a range of cards for mining means potential customers will be split down the middle, with miners going to one side and gamers remaining on the other. It could be the answer users have been waiting for.

Some may be wondering why it's taken the company so long to think of this as a solution, especially as graphics cards have long been used for cryptocurrency mining. Even gamers have utilized them for making money on the side. However, the low supplies of Nvidia's newest RTX series is likely the reason behind the new cards. With so many stores and customers vying for one, Nvidia needed a solution to satisfy both gamers and miners. Hopefully, this will work out, and fans will start to see RTX GPUs coming back into stores again soon.

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Source: Gamespot