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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Revolutionize how you do what you doBut What About Nvidia’s Crypto Throttling? If AMD has anything over Nvidia when it comes to crypto nowadays, it’s that its open-source drivers make it agnostic towards mining. Nvidia, understanding the strain crypto miners are placing on the already hostile GPU market over the last couple of years, tried to address this in 2021.Starting with the RTX 3060, Nvidia began shipping their cards with a Light Hash Rate limiter, which was meant to cut the mining efficiency of the cards to deter miners from gobbling them up in droves. They also released their CMP line of cards, with the intention of segregating the market, to open up regular GPUs to gamers while also offering an alternative for crypto miners. GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 However, the CMP line of cards turns out to be less than desirable for crypto miners. Not only do the cards not have the same resale value as ordinary RTX cards, due to their headless design and the nature of mining, but they have a higher initial cost. The cards also come with a locked BIOS, making it impossible for miners to overclock and undervolt their cards, both of which are common practice for miners to maximize hashing power and reduce electricity costs.Nvidia later made plans to extend this hash limiter to its other RTX 30-series cards, effectively quashing the profitability of the latest RTX line for crypto miners.But what seemed like a golden move from team green was little more than a bump in the road for crypto miners. First, shortly after the implementation of the LHR limiter, Nvidia accidentally leaked a beta driver that unlocked the limiter, allowing miners to retain the full mining performance of their cards. And while Nvidia quickly remedied the situation, miners continue to see victories against the green giant.Later in 2021, NBMiner managed to partially crack the limiter, allowing miners to retain up to 70% of the hashing power of the cards. And if that isn’t enough, there’s also the Nvidia data breach in February 2022. The group of hackers responsible for the breach has threatened to leak the stolen data if Nvidia doesn’t remove the hash limiter on all of their RTX 30-series cards.All of that aside, though, even with the hash limiter, it doesn’t seem to faze crypto miners too much. In fact, some have called the limiter pointless, and it does
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