Although Nvidia has limited the mining capacity of the RTX 3060, its performance is still allowing it to mine about $ 6.5 a day, according to an analysis by YouTuber CryptoLeo.
Nvidia announced that the RTX 3060 would come with a limitation on its capabilities to mine Ethereum cryptocurrencies. Nvidia has only referred to mining Ethereum, but not other cryptocurrencies.
The limitation is within the vBIOS of the RTX 3060 graphics cards, but it only acts when it detects that Ethereum is being mined, but not other currencies.
This was discovered by YouTuber CryptoLeo, who claims that the RTX 3060 is not profitable to mine Ethereum, but other cryptocurrencies, so this limitation implemented by Nvidia is, at the very least, useless.
CryptoLeo was able to test the graphics card by mining other currencies such as Octopus, Cortex, among others, being able to generate a profit of 6.5 dollars a day, a figure that continues to be very profitable for miners. Of course, these coins are not as popular or profitable as Ethereum, but the options are still there.
The reason there are only limitations to mining Ethereum is straightforward. Nvidia cannot block all hashing tasks because that could affect other similar tasks such as machine learning, cryptography or Adobe's graphic design functions, it could even affect some video games. To completely block mining, Nvidia would have to work on each of the cryptocurrencies individually and add the limitations in the vBIOS.
Currently, there are hundreds of cryptocurrencies and new ones are coming out from time to time, so it would be an additional headache for the programmers and designers of the green company.
Is it possible for Nvidia to add new cryptocurrencies to the list to be limited from vBIOS? We will keep you informed.
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