It appears to be like that disabling the ETH hash payment limiter on the GeForce RTX 3060 is as easy as installing a GeForce pattern driver that NVIDIA published on its internet position. NVIDIA has admitted that the motive force removes the limiter, opposite to claims that a stable handshake existed between multiple parts. Sadly for NVIDIA, the motive force remains freely accessible to download.
Earlier this week, we reported that folks had bypassed NVIDIA’s ETH mining limit on the RTX 3060, albeit no longer with any particular measures. As an replacement, NVIDIA published GeForce 470.05 pattern driver that restored the RTX 3060’s ETH mining efficiency to between 45 MH/s and 50 MH/s. Previously, NVIDIA’s ETH mining limit would decrease efficiency to 25 MH/s, apparently to discourage of us from the employ of the RTX 3060 for crypto mining.
In the origin, NVIDIA declined to commentary, nonetheless it has now accomplished so privately to us and, as Andreas Schilling’s tweets characterize, to others too. NVIDIA’s assertion on the topic is as follows:
A developer driver inadvertently integrated code frail for internal pattern which removes the hash payment limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations.
Unsurprisingly, NVIDIA has removed the motive force from its internet position. However, doing away with the near driver will no longer prevent of us from downloading it from other sources. A cursory search online exhibits that folks possess already re-uploaded the motive force multiple times, so we doubt that GeForce 470.05 will move anytime soon.
Andreas Schilling has explained what NVIDIA intention by ‘in some configurations’ too. As he explains on Hardware Luxx, installing GeForce 470.05 removes the ETH limiter ideal when the employ of the RTX 3060 as a significant card and with a expose output linked. If you’ve got an RTX 3060 working as a secondary card or with out a expose output linked, then the ETH limiter will kick in after about a minutes, even with GeForce 470.05 installed.
Indirectly, the GeForce 470.05 pattern driver contradicts public statements made by NVIDIA employees. In February, Bryan Del Rizzo, Senior PR Supervisor at NVIDIA, insisted that a ‘stable handshake’ exists ‘between the motive force, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS’ that stops any individual from doing away with the ETH limiter. The GeForce 470.05 pattern driver by some potential breaks this ‘stable handshake’, even supposing we are in doubt how, on the 2nd.
