{"id":198557,"date":"2021-03-10T13:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nvidia-rtx-3060-mines-ether-at-full-power-as-miners-allegedly-bypass-hash-limits\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:41:30","slug":"nvidia-rtx-3060-mines-ether-at-full-power-as-miners-allegedly-bypass-hash-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nvidia-rtx-3060-mines-ether-at-full-power-as-miners-allegedly-bypass-hash-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"# Nvidia RTX 3060 mines Ether at full power as miners allegedly bypass hash limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Nvidia RTX 3060 mines Ether at full power as miners allegedly bypass hash limits <\/strong>”
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Nvidia\u2019s attempt to shift Ether (ETH) miners away from its new GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card by limiting its hash rate app<\/a>ears to have been short-lived. <\/p>\n

Screenshots posted<\/a> by tech leak Twitter<\/a> account I_Leak_VN show a stack of eight RTX 3060 graphics cards operating at far above Nvidia\u2019s 20-25 MH\/s mining limit, while reportedly<\/a> using Ethereum\u2019s Dagger-Hashimoto mining algorithm.<\/p>\n

On the same day, a cryptocurrency-focused Facebook group from Vietnam posted<\/a> a graphic announcing that the RTX 3060 had indeed been bypassed, and could now reach its full power of 50 MH\/s thanks to a mod.<\/p>\n

Breaking Nvidia\u2019s enforced limits on Ether mining was apparently achieved using a custom modification, according to reports<\/a> on March 10. This flies in the face of a recent announcement by Nvidia\u2019s global director of public relations, Bryan Del Rizzo, who said on Feb. 21 that secure interactions between the GPU hardware, the driver software, and the computer firmware would prevent the removal of the hash rate limiter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter,\u201d Del Rizzo wrote<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s imposition of the hash rate limiter was designed to make its cards less attractive to cryptocurrency miners \u2014 specifically those mining Ether. This followed vocal concerns expressed by gaming aficionados, who were concerned about suffering another GPU shortage due to demand from miners. According to Nvidia, Ether was targeted specifically due to it having the highest global mining yield among GPU-mineable coins. <\/p>\n

Alongside its decision to limit the efficiency of Ether mining, Nvidia also announced the pending release of a graphics card created specifically for cryptocurrency mining. Dubbed the CMP line, the cards were to be marketed to miners, and were to be strip<\/a>ped of the display outputs deemed unnecessary for crypto mining.<\/p>\n

But with the emergence of the aforementioned modification, those plans could now be up in the air and could result in a mad rush by would-be miners to snap up more units of the RTX 3060. Nvidia\u2019s future plans are also thrown into question, given that it intended to release the upcoming RTX 3080 Ti with the same Ether mining limitations. <\/p>\n

Nvidia did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n