Gamers are still Nvidia’s masters, but Ether miners could change that
Nvidia's chief financial officer says the firm could restart its mining-specific line of graphics cards if demand from cryptocurrency miners increases. Gaming hardware giant Nvidia has addressed the ongoing shortage of its new RTX 3000 product line after high demand from gamers, and to a lesser extent, cryptocurrency miners, pushed up prices and cut availability.Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress said the company didn’t have good visibility into how much demand came solely from cryptocurrency miners, but she doesn’t believe it’s a big part of the business at this time. That’s....
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Leaked screenshots of the latest Nvidia GPU mining Ether at full power leaves gamers worried and miners rubbing their hands. Nvidia’s RTX 30 series of graphics cards have been subject to unending speculation, rumors and even ridicule since the firm first announced it would ship its latest GPU’s with a built-in Ether (ETH) mining limiter. A series of missteps saw the mining limiter on Nvidia’s RTX 3060 card first undone by crafty hackers and then completely removed by one of Nvidia’s own driver updates. The latest in a series of leaks now suggests Nvidia’s next major GPU release — the RTX....
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....