We reported earlier this week that NVIDIA would ship a brand new revision of the GeForce RTX 3060 desktop GPU — GA106-302 — that can put extra stringent measures in place to cripple mining for cryptocurrencies like Ethereum (ETH). While the latest GeForce RTX 3060 choices will possible be the primary of those fortified, anti-mining graphics playing cards, they will not be the final.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has entered mass manufacturing, and it is alleged that early qualification samples had a crypto mining limiter that was simply as straightforward to bypass as at present transport GeForce RTX 3060 playing cards. However, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPUs at present in mass manufacturing with up to date firmware are not ready to make use of the 470.05 beta driver to reenable ETH mining.
And whereas it is attainable to flash GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics playing cards with the older QS firmware, customers are offered with a black display when booting, and the limiter stays Igor’s Lab reports. With this in thoughts, NVIDIA is probably going within the technique of shifting its complete GeForce RTX 30 Series lineup to incorporate these new crypto mining limiters.
This transfer solely is smart after NVIDIA’s embarrassing exhibiting with the GeForce RTX 3060. After claiming that the graphics card had the {hardware}, BIOS, and driver mechanisms in place to chop ETH mining charges in half, the beta driver workaround blew that commentary out of the water. Then, NVIDIA’s answer to throttling mining in multi-GPU mining rigs was thwarted utilizing inexpensive dummy HDMI plugs.
NVIDIA is adamant about making the GeForce RTX 30 Series unattractive to crypto miners for 2 causes. For starters, it desires to make sure that extra of those extremely sought-after graphics playing cards discover their manner into the arms of its meant viewers: avid gamers. Secondly, NVIDIA launched a wholly new household of GPUs explicitly made for mining. The CMP HX family consists of a mixture of Turing- and Ampere-based cards with hash charges of 26 MH/s to 86 MH/s.