Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 series gets partially restored mining performance

An estimated quarter of the world’s graphics cards were sold miners during the first quarter of the year. To curb this, Nvidia introduced a restriction on new Geforce RTX 3000 graphics cards, whose performance when breaking the Ethereum cryptocurrency was halved. The purpose was to make the graphics cards less interesting miners and that the sale would instead go to gamers.

Since the end of May, all Geforce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060 have been delivered with the Lite Hash Rate (LHR) extension, which indicates the limitation. The latest additions RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti that were launched afterwards both have the same limitation but are without the LHR suffix. The exception is the RTX 3090, which is still without barriers.

It has long been rumored that there are groups that have completely succeeded in lifting Nvidia’s barrier, but so far there is no evidence for that. Now, however, the group behind the Nbminer software has partially managed to unlock the performance of new graphics cards with the addition Lite Hash Rate (LHR) and the latest Geforce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti.

The new software unlocks 70 percent of the Geforce RTX 3000 series’ performance with the Ethash algorithm used to break the Ethereum cryptocurrency. While the software does not unlock the full potential of the hardware, it is still a performance boost of 40 percent, which may be enough to make the Geforce series graphics card interesting again for miners.

While the software can lift the artificial limit from 50 to 70 percent, those interested are advised to set the value to 68 percent for stable operation. Whether the developers manage to squeeze out more or even completely unlock miningThe performance of the Geforce RTX 3000 series remains to be seen.

Source: Videocardz

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