The specifications of individual cards (such as clocks, number of functional units, memory capacity, etc.) do not change, only the chip revision markings, BIOS and driver change so that the cards can detect active mining (ETH) and use ~ 50% performance limitations. The official press release (or the official blog with which they were announced) talks about:
- GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
- GeForce RTX 3070
- GeForce RTX 3080
The GeForce RTX 3060 mentions that it has already been released with a limiter (although it also received a new version with a new limiter, as the original Nvidia inadvertently released a limiter driver). The list does not include GeForce RTX 3090 and the whole report does not mention it at all, so the phrase “Getting GeForce Cards into the Hands of Gamers” probably does not apply to it.
Cards with a limiter will be on sale from mid-May at the latest and the user will recognize them by the fact that they will be marked with the abbreviation LHR, or its fully written meaning: Lite Hash Rate. Official prices do not change. However, it is hoped that real prices will fall slightly. These have been particularly desperate since mid-May, with the German 3DCenter noting that the real price of the GeForce RTX 3080 has already climbed to 4.2 times the recommended official price. Which is a state that the graphics card market hasn’t reached yet in any of the previous cryptocurrencies.
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