Nvidia RTX 3060 mines Ether at full power as miners allegedly bypass hash limits
Nvidia's plans to separate gaming and mining demand could be foiled after a custom modification allegedly bypassed the RTX 3060's Ether mining limitations. Nvidia’s attempt to shift Ether (ETH) miners away from its new GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card by limiting its hash rate appears to have been short-lived. Screenshots posted by tech leak Twitter account I_Leak_VN show a stack of eight RTX 3060 graphics cards operating at far above Nvidia’s 20-25 MH/s mining limit, while reportedly using Ethereum’s Dagger-Hashimoto mining algorithm.On the same day, a cryptocurrency-focused Facebook group....
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Nvidia's own software update inadvertently removed the RTX 3060's Ether-mining hash rate limiter. A software update released by Nvidia inadvertently bypassed the Ether (ETH) mining block the firm placed on its own GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. A spokesperson for Nvidia confirmed on Tuesday that the latest 470.05 driver update was mistakenly released with code intended for use only by Nvidia developers, which allowed for the removal of the hash rate limiter.“A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some....
The global head of GeForce marketing at Nvidia said that the reduced hash rate "only applies to newly manufactured cards," not to GPUs already purchased. Graphics card giant Nvidia said that the hash rate limiter on its RTX 3060 graphics cards would also be introduced in other RTX 30 series GPUs in an attempt to disincentivize crypto miners.In an announcement from Nvidia on Tuesday, the company said it would be applying a reduced Ethereum hash rate to its newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. The models will be identified by a “Lite Hash Rate,” or....
The California chipmaker says GeForce RTX 360 is for gamers, not cryptocurrency miners. The latter camp will get its own CMP mining infrastructure in the near future. Nvidia, a California-based hardware company known for developing industry-leading graphics cards, is doing everything it can to ensure that its upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 GPU ends up in the hands of gamers. To achieve that end, the company announced Thursday that it will limit the GeForce hash rate to make it less desirable to cryptocurrency miners. The company said the new RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect....
Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs are going for as low as $270 as crypto miners in China dump their cards on the used market amidst the nation’s Bitcoin crackdowns. Cheap Used Nvidia RTX GPUs Flood The Chinese Market As Miners Dump As China continues cracking down on Bitcoin and mining in the country, some miners have […]
After accidentally unlocking its own hash rate limiter in a driver update, Nvidia has announced it will lock new cards again by reducing the mining capacity by 50%. Graphics card giant Nvidia is quietly reintroducing a hash rate limiter on its RTX 3060 series graphics cards in an effort to disincentivize cryptocurrency miners.On April 29 the company issued the GeForce 466.27 driver that reintroduces RTX 3060 cryptomining limiter.GeForce 466.27 driver release notes, Source: NvidiaAccording to sources reported by computer news site Videocardz, Nvidia will release the new ‘Lite Hash Rate’....