Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/01/reviewers-nvidias-rtx-3060-ti-video-card-a-good-deal.html
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I managed to snag an RTX 3080 a week before Thanksgiving through Amazon and honestly the stress leading up to the lucky purchase was hell. But i had already committed to building my new desktop so i kinda had to keep an eye on restocking alerts from a Discord server’s bot. Personally i think if someone’s going to go through the effort of buying a card right now they should hold off to buy a 3070 or a 3080, or the AMD offerings which are just as good. I don’t think the 3060ti offers much in comparison even if the specs of the other cards are overkill you want something that’ll coast you for a while.
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Yup, this looks like the holiday deal-not-deal (because that’s the retail anyway) that buyers will wish they’d sat out. I have no steady income and my GTX1060 may be the culprit for PC crashing on War Thunder. When I’m back in the money I’ll start looking at RTX. For now it’s really, mostly doing a fantastic job.
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Yeah i would hold off if there’s no immediate need to upgrade, if you are having issues and you’d like to get a new GPU you can potentially look at getting the new AMD RX 6800 card which is just as good (if not better than) the RTX 3080. Availability is still going to be spotty because of scalpers though 
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A sysadmin I know said that new Nvidia drivers for Geforce cards have a license clause disallowing any kind of commercial use. Does anyone know if that’s true?
There is a clause against datacenter use, but I’m confused about this one.
It seems weird, but on the other hand old Creative Audigy soundcard drivers license forbid any kind of for-profit use too.
I doubt this is true, beefy GPUs are routinely used and needed for production work, graphic design, video game industry stuff, research/number crunching, etc, etc
Looking into it though i think i know what they might be referring to. Nvidia wanted to ensure that data centers didn’t take up all of the consumer level GPUs as they could easily take up all of said supply. Their EULA pushes data centers to use hardware specifically made for them
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The GeForce license looks to mostly be against datacenter(except blockchain, for some reason) use, apparently workstations can be spared; but the “no sublicensing or distribution” clause could probably be stretched to cover almost any commercial use where a 3rd party is allowed to use your copy of the driver(whether by some streaming arrangement or in a PC-based arcade scenario); but not the ones where you sell the output of your use of the driver.
(legalities aside; unless they’ve changed this fairly recently I know that the driver will petulantly refuse to work if it detects that it is running in a VM with a GPU attached via I/O MMU virtualization/PCIe passthrough. Really damned annoying. My understanding is that it’s not that perceptive, and workarounds exist; but I dislike giving money to vendors where I’ll need to hack my way to functionality.)
No Sublicensing or Distribution. Customer may not sell, rent, sublicense, distribute or transfer the SOFTWARE; or use the SOFTWARE for public performance or broadcast; or provide commercial hosting services with the SOFTWARE.
No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.
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