Nvidia’s GeForce limits hash rate to divert crypto miners to new CMP line
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....
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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....
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....
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’....
Chinese GPU miners are apparently buying up Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30 laptops to set up ETH mining farms. Chinese cryptocurrency miners are reportedly buying Nvidia's new laptops to mine Ether (ETH) amid the altcoin hitting new all-time highs.Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 30 laptops have become increasingly popular in China as a tool for mining cryptocurrency, according to several sources.On Feb. 6, a Weibo user known as BTCer posted a bunch of images showing off GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops making up a solid crypto mining farm. “A laptop mine is up,” BTCer noted in the post....
Nvidia’s RTX 3070 and 3080 Ti models will go on sale over the course of the coming month. Nvidia’s new 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti graphics cards will launch with Ethereum hash rate limiters built in when they go on sale later this month. Nvidia announced the pending release of the new cards during its Computex 2021 livestream on Monday, where it unveiled specifications and release dates for both models.Of particular interest to cryptocurrency enthusiasts is Nvidia’s decision to launch the cards with in-built limiters aimed at curbing their Ether-mining utility. The company had previously pledged....