Similar to when Nvidia released LHR GPUs that nerfed performance for Ethereum mining.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 LHR which tried to hinder mining at the bios level.

The point wasn't to make the average person lose out by preventing them mining on their gaming GPU. But to make miners less inclined to buy gaming GPUs. They also released a series of crypto mining GPUs around the same time.

So fairly typical market segregation.

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-anti-min...