In order to bring the PC graphics card market, which has been driven by the cryptocurrency mining boom, back on track, Nvidia has stated that it will fully deploy measures to limit hash computing power on the subsequent newly released RTX 30 series graphics cards. Although RTX 3060 was launched at the beginning of its launch, it caused a misunderstanding of "cracking Ethereum (ETH) computing power through a developer driver", the majority of gamers still gritted their teeth and chose to "believe in Nvidia again".
VideoCardz reported that Nvidia tried to limit the hash computing power of RTX 3060 graphics card through improvements based on GPU hardware.
Before the ETH mining computing power of the RTX 3060 graphics card launched in February was cracked, the graphics card vBIOS and driver will limit the computing power to about 50% when ETH mining is detected.
embarrassingly, this measure was easily bypassed with the official unexpected release of a developer driver that unbanned computing power (it was too late to withdraw), and some people tried to flash the old version of vBIOS.
Matt Wuebbling, head of global marketing at Nvidia GeForce, said in a blog post: "Our company has designed the GeForce GPU for gamers, but everyone is obviously eager to gain more."
It is said that starting with the GeForce version 466.27 driver, Nvidia has once again introduced cryptocurrency mining restrictions. And RTX 3060 graphics cards that have been shipped from May will be bundled with new drivers.
In addition, VideoCardz added that measures to streamline hash computing power (LHR) will be spread across all new RTX 30 series cards, including the upgraded version of the 3060 Ti / 3070 / 3080 (the price-to-price RTX 3090 flagship product line may be an exception).
as an auxiliary solution, the company has also launched a dedicated cryptocurrency mining chip (CMP series). However, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness and second-hand residual value , not many miners are willing to choose this mining-specific GPU.
After all, even if there is a "mine disaster" caused by the currency price collapse, mine owners can still regain their capital by "selling" the mine cards at a low price. However, mining cards (and customized mining machines) without display output interfaces have become a bunch of electronic waste that no one wants to take over.
