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GeForce RTX 3060 Hash rate Limiter is enforced through both driver and BIOS
- eddieoz 6y agoFirst move I'm aware, against crypto miners
- qqii 6y agoFirst move against but not the first time they've released a mining only card. They did the same thing for the 1060 in 2017b https://videocardz.com/70520/nvidia-p106-100-cryptocurrency-mining-card-tested https://videocardz.com/70520/nvidia-p106-100-cryptocurrency-...
- qqii 6y agoDissapointingly the article does not cite their sources. > Bryan Del Rizzo (director of global PR for GeForce) @bdelrizzo > Hi Ryan. It's 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 https://mobile.twitter.com/bdelrizzo/status/1362619264423747590 https://mobile.twitter.com/bdelrizzo/status/1362619264423747... > Just a minute or two after starting, the hash rate has dropped from 41.5 MH/s to 26-24 MH/s. Since the author of the video has no drivers for this card, this would suggest that the anti-mining algorithm is not present in the software, but rather implemented in the BIOS itself. https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-geforce-rtx-3060-early-gpu-mining-test-shows-reduced-hashrate-in-action https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-geforce-rtx-3060-early-gpu... They wrongly claim that the author has no drivers as can be seen from the source video but come to the correct conclusion as confirmed above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282Ozbp-Uv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282Ozbp-Uv8