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Old 02-20-2021, 4:20 PM
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Default Nvidia's RTX 3060 will release with anti-mining vBios.

There is yet hope for those of us looking to get a shiny new GPU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nv...g-rate-rtx3060

Yesterday, excellent news from Nvidia landed -- namely that it is putting the brakes on hashing performance of the RTX 3060. Whether this tech will also come to other GPUs in the lineup is currently unclear. To make it up to miners, Nvidia is coming out with a special line of CMP 'Cryptocurrency Mining Processor' GPUs. But could RTX 3060 miners simply bypass the artificial limiter? In a Twitter conversation between Ryan Smith from AnandTech and Nvidia's spokesperson Brian Del Rizzo it seems unlikely, for now.

With Nvidia artificially limiting Ethereum hashing performance on the RTX 3060, which has already been seen in action, a few questions are raised. Most notably, whether it's not simply possible to override the artificial limiter through the use of different software or drivers, thereby making the entire exercise futile. Sure, it might deter a small group of miners, but it won't do much to deter large-scale operations that gobble up tons of GPUs.

Good News: The Limiter is Implemented at a vBIOS Level

On Twitter, following a request from AnandTech's Ryan Smith, Nvidia's spokesperson Brian Del Rizzo confirmed that the hash rate limiter is not just the result of a driver change. Rather, it is the result of a handshake between the GPU, the GPU's BIOS and the driver.
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Nah, it will just make things worse. Linus covered this.

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Old 02-21-2021, 4:38 AM
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Nah, it will just make things worse. Linus covered this.

I just saw this one pop-up in my feed.
This thread made me watch it though...
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Old 02-21-2021, 10:46 AM
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wont work as miners are really tech-savvy and they bios-mod all the time anyway.
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