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According to a new requirement to the ECC (Eurasian Economic Commission), assembler Palit aims to resurrect the NVIDIA Pascal architecture almost three years after its initial release. The requirement includes 12 graphics card references that, according to all indications, would be oriented exclusively for cryptocurrency mining, since these GPUs would not even have video outputs.

What seems more than clear according to the references that Palit has registered is that these GPUs will be based on the P106 graphics core, in addition to also registering for the third time a reference of what would be the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

Palit mining specific GPUs
It is unclear which exact models Palit intends to resurrect, as two variants of the P106 GPU already existed at the time. On the one hand we have the P106-90 which is a GP106 GPU trimmed with 640 CUDA cores and 3 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory, while the high-end P106-100 had 1280 CUDA cores and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory.

NVIDIA-GP106-Diagram

The presentation at the ECC seems to list '1069', which would imply the P106-90 graphics core, but this graphics card could no longer be used in Ethereum mining due to dedicated graphics memory requirements (current ETH DAG file already you need 4.11GB of VRAM, although there are other mining alternatives that have smaller DAGs).

Palit has presented twelve references at the ECC, but this in no way means that twelve graphics card models will arrive. Palit tends to ship far more models than they eventually release to the market simply due to the fact that many times the models listed are regional variants, that is, graphics models that are released specifically for certain countries.

ECC record palit

At the time, there were already GPUs for mining based on the 16 nm Pascal architecture with P106 / 104 graphics cores. These graphics lacked screen connectors, unnecessary for graphics designed for cryptocurrency mining that work in groups; Often, in fact, they were shipped in bulk without stickers or packaging beyond a neutral cardboard box to save costs, and the most curious thing of all is that they also used to be sold at higher prices and with lower warranty periods of what GPUs designed for gaming have.

This information from Palit and the ECC is in addition to the recent announcement by NVIDIA, in which they announced that they would soon launch a new series of graphics called CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processors) based on Turing and Ampere architecture. The first CMP models will arrive, in theory, at the end of this month.
 

Is this the solution to stock problems?
We all know the stock problems that the market is suffering, especially in the market for graphics cards for gaming and new generation consoles. Of course, the mining boom is contributing to this lack of stock because miners tend to stock up graphics cards for their purposes, but they are not the only problem since production problems are still there, in addition to speculators who will continue to take advantage of the situation while it lasts.

If Palit or the rest of the NVIDIA assemblers launch these GPUs designed for mining, it could certainly serve to alleviate the situation a bit, but in no way would they solve the problem definitively because it has a much deeper draft than part of the problems in the chip foundries. So this is certainly good news but it is not the ultimate solution to problems at all.