The NVIDIA RTX 30 card mining limit has been bypassed. Cryptocurrency miners can take advantage of this.
Cryptocurrency mining requires very powerful machines, but in fact they are very energy-intensive, with large computing power. It is logical to assume that crypto miners prefer video cards, which partly explains the shortage that has been observed in the market for many months. Amid the huge hype around bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, miners are buying up video cards en masse, leaving video game enthusiasts – and not only them – in a very difficult position. Several ways have been tried to put an end to this. NVIDIA, in particular, has tried to put a mining limiter on their cards.
NVIDIA RTX 30 card mining limiter bypassed
Indeed, a few months ago, NVIDIA had the idea to implement a software solution that limits the hash rate. This is to prevent his graphics cards from being used for cryptocurrency mining, or at least making them much less profitable. But it seems that this initiative is not enough, as the mining limiter currently installed on NVIDIA RTX 30 GPUs has just been hacked.
Cryptocurrency miners will be able to take advantage of this
According to a report from MyDrivers, Sergey’s Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker tool allows users who want to change the BIOS and drivers of their RTX 30 to no longer experience limited hash rate when mining Ethereum. Thus, it allows miners to use the full potential of the video card for cryptocurrency mining.
That being said, there is no doubt that the NVIDIA teams have heard of the existence of this tool and are currently working on strengthening this software solution to prevent such a bypass. Or even better for end users to increase production volumes. Unfortunately, this last option remains very difficult to consider due to the lack of chips. Finding a new graphics card at the right price to be able to play video games should still be quite difficult…