Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cripples hash rate of RTX-3060 (wccftech.com) 81 points by drewg123 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] pella 5y ago ↗ original source:"GeForce Is Made for Gaming, CMP Is Made to MineWe’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners and launching NVIDIA CMP for professional mining."https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/"RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent."imho: Open Source Driver is the future ! [–] pella 5y ago ↗ --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260
[–] pella 5y ago ↗ dups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260 [–] neogodless 5y ago ↗ Not sure if maybe @dang should merge? The original was popular but hit the one hour mark and dropped down to page 3. [–] dang 5y ago ↗ Comments merged thither. Thanks!
[–] neogodless 5y ago ↗ Not sure if maybe @dang should merge? The original was popular but hit the one hour mark and dropped down to page 3.
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We’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners and launching NVIDIA CMP for professional mining."
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/
"RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent."
imho: Open Source Driver is the future !