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From what I've read, the card detects if it has been continuously mining for 30 minutes then throttles itself.
by smiley1437 5y ago
From what I've read, the card detects if it has been continuously mining for 30 minutes then throttles itself.
- livre 5y agoGP's question was about _how_ it detects it has been mining. Does it have a list of processes or executable names of popular mining software? Does it perform some kind of heuristic and detect if the code it is about to execute corresponds to a hashing algorithm? I don't know the answer, I hope someone can explain it to me and GP.
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- smiley1437 5y agonVidia has been deliberately vague about exactly what they are detecting because it would make it easy for miners to develop a workaround. That said, Anandtech wrote about it briefly recently: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16648/nvidia-updates-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-throttle-updated-drivers-required-for-future-3060s https://www.anandtech.com/show/16648/nvidia-updates-geforce-... They surmise that there is hardware-enforcement of BIOS\Drivers via some blown eFuses. Also they imply that nVidia does multiple checks such as whether it's running on a PCIe x1 bus (gamers would typically use x4 or more) and whether it's hooked up to a monitor. It's likely they check for other things too but they would keep it on the down-low.
- cerved 5y agoI've seen HDMI plugs listed on eBay which supposedly "double the hash rate" on 3060. I figured it was some kind of scam but didn't know they were throttled. I'm curious about how this is implemented. I'm also somewhat skeptical about GPU makers doing this for compute in general.
- levesque 5y agoGoing to be fun to see cases of false positives. "Help! My FPS drops 75% after running game for 30 minutes!"
- TwoBit 5y agoThose games are using a lot more of the gpu than just the compute functionality.
- mehlmao 5y agoHas anyone found out if Hashcat is impacted on the cards that have this already (3060)?