We already know that measures on the GeForce RTX 3060 card, which sharply reduced its performance in Etherea mining, was broken. However, it was not clear what was needed for this, even if the server PC Watch he said it was something that basically anyone could do. –
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NVIDIA initially claimed that the measures to reduce performance in Etherea mining were drivers, which naturally raised concerns that it would not last long. But then there was information from Brian Del Rizzo (Director of Global PR, GeForce Business Unit) that the measure applies not only to the drivers, but also to the BIOS and even the card chip itself, to ensure that the hash performance limitation cannot be easily removed. .
Hi Ryan. It’s not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.
– Bryan Del Rizzo (@bdelrizzo) February 19, 2021
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From the available information, it can seem to someone as if NVIDIA with an unbeatable “hardware handshake” simply pulled us by the fusekli. Or there is another possibility, namely that the measure is actually able to detect changes in the driver that would remove the mining performance limitations (or simply change the drivers in any way) and that it actually uses BIOS and silicon authentication. However, all this can be useless if NVIDIA itself releases drivers into the world that do not contain a power limiter, which would correspond to the fact that the company first talked about a measure built purely into drivers.
Now the miners don’t need anything, they just need the drivers, which of course they no longer need to change. The only one who will be beaten by it is an occasional miner who plays and mines on his RTX 3060. Naturally, he will want to run the card with the current drivers, ie he will either forget to extract Etherea, or he can still constantly switch over the old 470.05 drivers and the new ones.
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