RTX 3000 Leaks: Why Does it Take So Long to Come to Light?

For some time now, we have all witnessed the change that has occurred in something so basic and already implemented on the Internet as leaks. Formerly there was greater secrecy on the one hand, but on the other a closure was opened to confirm performance, so they gave us one of lime and another of sand, where we had the important thing. But now everything has changed as we have seen with the RTX 3000 , why do data leaks take so long to come out?

As we say, in the past we had data everywhere long before presentation, clear performance data. But on the other hand, the technical data of the GPUs had to be intuited on many occasions, carrying out the corresponding operations based on the node, the possible improvements to the architecture and in general, stipulating at the top what it could end up being.

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The scenario is now backwards and has a very sensible explanation that makes any little bit of general performance that can be offered more interesting.

AMD, Intel and NVIDIA shield themselves against leakers

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In the case of AMD, all of this is much more blatant, since the secrecy is absolute, many beta testers have gone to the bench and the information comes out slowly and with a nice NDA signed with names and surnames for the lucky ones who find out about any novelty.

Intel already directly plays the distraction from its laboratories, with several code names that later end up adopting the real names and where, curiously, architecture is the most precious thing in taking care of leaks, not so much performance.

But in the case of NVIDIA and being pure news for the networks, they have gone a step further. As people talk behind the scenes, Huang’s have a double or perhaps triple game to keep the unknowns until the right moment, or at least get closer to the most suitable moment so that everything is known about their GPUs: the reviews and official presentations , no the order matters.

Today the first comparative data has appeared and we already pointed it out: NVIDIA does not trust any beta tester, wholesaler or simply anyone who puts their hands on one of their GPUs. How are you avoiding leaks?

Two very simple and tremendously effective methods

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The first one has to do with time. The AIBs are getting the chips with their BGA and VRAM very late . We emphasize the concept “too late”, because really the development and testing time of custom GPUs is less and less, just a month and hopefully. Previously, all AIBs have the technical requirements of the chip, as well as all the information that NVIDIA provides them to establish a base or minimum design on which to be able to work theoretically, which is done with months in sight.

But the important thing that is the practice, the empirical thing, is in the last month, or month and little, before the launch of these custom cards, reason why the time to detect possible failures is reduced to the minimum if we take into account the processes of assembly, stress testing and commercialization.

The second method is equally brilliant: not offering enabled drivers, that is, GPU owners as well as AIBs are offered an extremely limited basic driver that can run two programs that are included with it.

One of them is optimized to extract the full potential of the card so that it consumes as much TGP as possible and thus be able to test both cooling and possible problems on the PCB. The other software apparently has to do with correct guidelines and values, so that at certain points on the PCB, as well as at the video outputs and power inputs, the values that the card is offering are offered in a simple way, being able to check if something is wrong at these points.

Therefore, until NVIDIA offers a working driver, anyone who owns the card simply cannot test it under any game or benchmark , thus limiting the time of the leak until Huang’s fire the starting gun.

Many lucky people skip the NDA with successive leaks

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Logically, the NDA is still in force, but NVIDIA already has the fact that many are going to skip what is signed and if they are caught, they will assume the consequences. In any case, this trend will be the one we will see from now on and we must get used to it, not in vain it is increasingly difficult for us to check if the information is true or not, having to rely many times on the “prestige” of the leaker of turn, because not even the beta testers offer clear data to present them as a leak.