NVIDIA Prohibits Use Of GeForce GPUs In Datacenters

[Telemaque]

NVIDIA Prohibits Use Of GeForce GPUs In Datacenters, Only Blockchain Processing Allowed

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-eula-prohibits-datacenter-blockchain-allowed/

NVIDIA made a pretty big change in its GeForce EULA recently and this is something that could go on to cost a lot of entities an aggregate of millions if not billions of dollars in the long run. The company recently updated their EULA which now prohibits datacenter deployment of their GeForce GPUs for everything but blockchain processing. Needless to say, this would force a shift to Quadro and Tesla’s in any datacenters that were actually using GeForce cards or had planned to.

[whitrzac]

You can use gforce cards to print all the money you want, but not cure cancer.

 

[QuintLeo]

Article is clueless about NVidia cards in mining - appears to be basing their info on pre-2016 mining at best.

 NVidia may also be costing THEMSELVES a lot with this - they're not the only option for GPU usage in a datacenter after all.

 On the other hand, a lot of datacenters may just choose to ignore this EULA change, especially EXISTING ones.

[puwaha]

There is no EULA involved for hardware.  If you install the Windows WQL drivers, then again, there is no EULA.  Nevertheless, this is shady practice from nVidia.

We ran into the same thing when we started using the M60 cards in our VMware Horizon VDI servers.  You now have to buy a license per desktop to run the cards, deploy a license server, etc.  You have a pay a license for the privilege of using a video card? WTF nVidia!?