Nvidia has discontinued the production of the GeForce RTX 3060 with the old GA106-300 GPU chip and replaced it with the new GA106-302 GPU to further restrict mining. According to the report, after switching to the new GPU, the old driver will completely fail.
Along with this, NVIDIA will add more restriction mechanisms to the GA106-302 GPU to ensure that the new batch of GeForce RTX 3060 restricts ETH mining behavior.
The RTX 3060 with a new GPU is expected to be available in May and will be sold in a mix with the old model. In February, Nvidia officially declared that it would limit the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs to reduce its attractiveness to cryptocurrency practitioners.
As reported, Nvidia’s GeForce 470.05 driver can lift the RTX 3060 Ethereum hash rate limit. Afterward, Nvidia responded to this, saying that the driver has been deleted.
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