After NVIDIA made the announcement that it is halving the Hash rate of the upcoming RTX 3060, there was a lot of confusion among miners and consumers that whether the other RTX 3000 series cards will suffer from the fate. NVIDIA has come out to clear the air and has said that only the future GPUs will be getting Mining hash limiter and that the previously released cards will remain unaffected.
NVIDIA’s announcements a few days ago made a lot of rounds all over the world, with the company introducing mining-specific CMP cards but also halved the hash rate of the upcoming RTX 3060 to keep the miners away from them.
The official line from NVIDIA is that this is a driver thing. Given what they're trying to do, I doubt they're telling us everything. One way or another we'll find out soon enough.
— Ryan Smith (@RyanSmithAT) February 18, 2021
NVIDIA has revealed that for upcoming GeForce graphics cards, they will be nerfing its hash rate by a huge margin to stop miners from gouging up the stock. The company has now given more info on how all of this is going to work. NVIDIA’s Bryan Del Rizzo explained how the hash rate limiter will work in future cards.
There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents the removal of the hash rate limiter. All three prevent the removal of the hash limiter. NVIDIA is quite confident that this would be enough to tackle miners running GeForce GPUs.
Moreover, there are many rumors that the RTX 3060 is the first card to receive such treatment and that More Ampere and future GeForce Gaming graphics cards could be added to the list soon. This doesn’t mean that using a new driver on an existing graphics card will limit its hash rate but a new SKU or existing graphics card with a new device-id could offer a similar limit.
We will have to wait and see how this situation pans out in the coming future and will the Mining Hash Limiter by Nvidia really stop miners from getting their hands on these GPUs or not.
