Social media is actively discussing the breakthrough of Chinese miners in hacking the protection of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. Recall that the manufacturer is not pleased that its cards are used for Bitcoin mining. Therefore, powerful gaming innovations have received several types of protection. At the software and hardware levels. But this did not help them – Chinese miners restored the functionality of the graphics accelerator for cryptocurrency mining.
Why NVIDIA is against mining
It all looks very silly. After all, thanks to miners, the demand for powerful gaming graphics cards has skyrocketed over the past 4 years. And factories simply cannot keep up with producing equipment. As a result, huge queues form, and the prices of graphics cards soar.
It all looks very impressive, but miners significantly hinder NVIDIA’s other business direction. The company makes excellent profits from new high-performance games. But who will buy them if ordinary users simply cannot purchase a new gaming graphics card? Apparently, the income from gaming is substantial for the manufacturer. Otherwise, NVIDIA would not be “biting the hand that feeds it.”
Bypassing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 restrictions
The company’s programmers applied a comprehensive approach in creating the lock. Drivers for the graphics card were modified, as well as BIOS settings for the GPU. As a result, the hash potential of the graphics card was halved (dropped to 50 MH/s in Ethereum mining). Chinese programmers had to work hard, but a solution was found. The world saw a special mod that is installed on systems working with these graphics cards.
Why NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is better for mining
It’s very simple – the 3060 model, in terms of performance, lags behind its older brother 3070 by only 10-15% in Bitcoin mining efficiency. But it costs one and a half times (and sometimes twice) less. Plus, it consumes 20% less electricity. Hence, the popularity of mid-range graphics cards.
