This month, a significant event took place in the world of mining – a complete victory over the “mining brake” NVIDIA LHR. It was possible to bypass NVIDIA restrictions on both Windows and Linux. True, the common protections of versions 1 and 2 bypassed completely, but LHRv3, which is used in the RTX 3050 and RTX 3080 12 GB models, still held on.
Now a new NiceHash QuickMiner v0.5.4.2 RC miner has been released, which does not fully, but by 90%, unlock the computing power of the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3080 12 GB. No tricky manipulations are required, just update the NiceHash miner and update the NVIDIA video driver to version 512.15 or higher. In total, at the moment, GeForce RTX 3000 video cards produce the following mega hashes:
While the news of unlocking NVIDIA restrictions is clearly not encouraging for gamers, it really doesn’t matter anymore. For miners, as strange as it may seem, the news is generally bad. Profitability has been very low lately, and the removal of restrictions will only further inflate the capacity of the Network, due to which profitability will decrease even more.
