Excavating ETH at full speed, the RTX 3060 mining efficiency limit has been perfectly broken?

This morning, tweeter @I_Leak_VN posted a tweet with a picture that became popular in the mining circle. In the picture, eight Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards are mining, and the speed has exceeded 45 MH/s (the total hash rate is 362.75 MH/s ).

It seems to indicate that Chinese miners have found a way to bypass the hashrate limit (20-25 MH/s) set by Nvidia using a custom mod. The gospel comes, will the majority of miners be able to mine ETH at full speed in the future?

Ahead of the official release of the GeForce RTX 3060, Nvidia made the surprising announcement that the GPU would suffer from a built-in hashrate limiter when mining cryptocurrencies.

According to Nvidia, this is done to limit the purchasing appeal of the GeForce RTX 3060 for cryptocurrency miners and to leave more sources available for the target audience (gamers).

NVIDIA says it implements the hash rate limiter through a combination of BIOS, driver, and hardware modifications, which will "detect specific properties of cryptocurrency mining algorithms like Ethereum" and reduce performance by more than 50%.

In actual use, some miners have witnessed a drop of about 38% in the Ethereum mining performance of GeForce RTX 3060. Although his hash rate started out at 41.5MH/s, it dropped rapidly until the GeForce RTX 3060 stabilized at around 26. This rate is less attractive to miners.

After the tweet of @I_Leak_VN was released, many enthusiastic netizens and miners commented, many of them said that the mining method used in the picture is not for Ethereum, but conflux, which is a different cryptocurrency , and Nvidia may not have restricted its hashing algorithm, since Conflux uses the Octopus algorithm.

Later, @I_Leak_VN also admitted that they misunderstood that the hash rate limiter was cracked. This may be disappointing news for friends who hope to improve the competitiveness of Ethereum mining through GeForce RTX 3060.

Nvidia is pretty confident about the hashrate limit of its gaming-grade GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, and the GeForce RTX 3060 is the first in the series to receive this treatment. Based on how various aspects of the GPU communicate with each other, it will be difficult to crack or even bypass, the company said. The hash rate limiter works by determining if a set of mining algorithms is running on the GPU and halving the mining rate immediately.

At the same time, the GeForce RTX 3060 has not been available for long or in sufficient quantities, and the market may yet struggle to extensively test or crack the hash rate limiter set by Nvidia.

Nvidia is rumored to have decided to continue implementing the hash rate limiter into future GeForce RTX series graphics cards as gaming enthusiasts expressed strong concerns that GPUs will suffer another shortage due to miner demand.

Meanwhile, Nvidia also announced the upcoming release of graphics cards created specifically for cryptocurrency mining. Known as the CMP line, these graphics cards will be sold exclusively to miners and will be stripped of display output configurations that are not necessary for cryptocurrency mining.

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