The high-profile story of limiting the performance of the GeForce RTX 3060 3D card when mining Etherium, which Nvidia invented in order to discourage miners from this model, suffered a crushing fiasco. And twice, and the second time – through the fault of Nvidia itself.
The news that the protection against mining of the GeForce RTX 3060 was hacked appeared last week, but then it was only about specific algorithms, so it was impossible to assert a full-fledged hack. And now, according to the Japanese resource PC Watch, the protection invented by Nvidia has fallen completely – and for this it was not necessary either to edit the driver or touch the BIOS. The mechanism of the protection bypass system is not disclosed, but with it the video card demonstrates excellent performance – about 48.5 MH / s!
However, to get such performance in mining, it is not at all necessary to break or bypass something: you just need to install a fresh version of the experimental Nvidia driver. The company added support for WSL CUDA in it, but forgot about protecting the GeForce RTX 3060 from mining … As a result, if the performance of the GeForce RTX 3060 in mining with a regular driver is about 21 MH / s, then with an experimental one it is 42-46 MH / s.
Of course, the “hole” in the official (albeit experimental) driver will certainly be closed, but … nothing prevents miners from using it further. In this case, the GeForce RTX 3060 will remain in short supply for a long time.
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