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Chinese Cryptocurrency Miners Allegedly Bypass NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Hash Rate Limiter, Delivers Up To 50 MH/s
https://wccftech.com/chinese-cryptocurrency-miners-allegedly-bypass-nvidias-geforce-rtx-3060-hash-rate-limiter-delivers-up-to-50-mh-s-in-ethereum/
NVIDIA's hash rate limiter for its upcoming GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, such as the RTX 3060, may have been short-lived as cryptocurrency miners based in China have found a way to by-pass it using a custom mod.

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 delivered around 40-45 MH/s but as soon as mining was initiated on the card, it dropped down to 20-25 MH/s. However, a Chinese mod is now floating around that will help miners unlock the full hash potential of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. A picture spotted by I_Leak_VN shows the Geforce RTX 3060 crunching 45 MH/s in Ethereum using the Dagger Hashi-Motto algorithm. A total of 8 graphics cards were running in the system delivering a combined hash rate of 362.75 MH/s.

A Vietnamese Facebook group has also verified that this mod actually works and can deliver up to 50 MH/s on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. Such hash rate would mean that Crypto miners will now rush after the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards considering they deliver the same hash output as the RTX 3060 Ti and close to the RTX 3070 with a much lower power draw.

***UPDATE***

If this article from PCGamer is correct, the cards shown in the image aren't mining Ethereum, but rather something else called Conflux.

Oh, and like Zotac, MSI has lined with the miners too: MSI promotes cryptocurrency mining on GE76 Raider laptop with GeForce RTX 3080

Last edited by JEMC - on 10 March 2021