Bad news for gamers who wanted an RTX 3060, after it was revealed that it has been hacked to mine Ethereum and achieve a hash rate of 40 MH / s. This negatively affects NVIDIA's plans with its CMP range, a family of graphics cards focused on mining.
NVIDIA announced plans to limit the RTX 3060 and upcoming GeForce GPUs via BIOS, SKU, and drivers. Not to leave the miners stranded, it presented NVIDIA CMP, a line of Turing and Ampere GPUs designed to mine and achieve a hash rate of up to 90 MH / s. That said, they have unlocked the mining limitations that the GeForce RTX 3060 had.
RTX 3060 is hacked and still powerful for mining Ethereum
NVIDIA claimed that these proposed GeForce limitations were "unsafe", but it appears they were wrong or underestimated the potential of certain users. Various screenshots have been shared on many technology forums showing the potential of the RTX 3060 in Ravecoin, another emerging cryptocurrency. This is because they use a different algorithm that NVIDIA has not focused on for their CMPs.
This week has started with a "mess" after seeing many sources of information claiming the unlocking of mining limitations for Ethereum practiced on the RTX 3060. So, the PC Watch colleagues confirm that the RTX 3060 restrictions on Ethereum have been broken without a driver or BIOS modifications: it would have been achieved through mining software.
On the other hand, the mining developers of the Phoenix team have written a message on Github that says the following.
We are working on a major update to the NVIDIA kernels for future releases. This update will focus on Ampere GPUs. Don't get your hopes up too high, but there are encouraging signs that the RTX 3060's hash rate cap could be partially “lifted”.
Then, we have been finding Twitter users have shared videos of a possible RTX 3060 sapping Ethereum with hash rates above 40 MH / s; in fact, some are closer to 50 MH / s.
3060 crack eth drivers up to 45M pic.twitter.com/l5cMSCn8a8
— Linmb (@Bj3OfZG5Yt8qdlR) March 11, 2021
Also, there are those who say that the BETA 370.05 drivers together with the VBIOS of some custom RTX 3060s would eliminate the mining limitation. As this tweet says, it is still not confirmed because the GPU drops the performance after 7 minutes. Therefore, there will be controversy in relation to the software because it will be the one that will serve as a tool to achieve more mining power.
The new rumour running around is that this VBIOS + the 370.05 BETA drivers removes the mining lock. Haven't been able to confirm this on my end (card slowed down after ~7 minutes). Test at your own risk: https://t.co/zyq8YYP41Z
— Kristy-Leigh Minehan (@OhGodAGirl) March 14, 2021
To give you an idea, we are talking about a performance superior to that of the NVIDIA CMP 50HX, which comes with 10 GB GDDR6, a 250 W TGP and a TU102-110 GPU (RTX 2080 Ti or TITAN RTX, for example). It is true that we have seen RIGs with RTX 2080 Ti mining Ethereum at a hash rate greater than 60 MH / s, but, according to NVIDIA, the 50HX would reach 45 MH / s, insufficient?
There is no doubt that there is going to be a mess with these limitations that, supposedly, could not be unlocked. For now, the RTX 3060 manages to dodge them.
What do you think about this? Did NVIDIA underestimate the power of the community?
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