Nvidia's RTX 3000 series has some of the best graphics cards available on the market thanks to proprietary technologies like DLSS, but they're also exceptionally good at mining cryptocurrency. This has contributed to unprecedented levels of demand that Nvidia has attempted to curb by introducing lite hash rate (LHR) limiters, but Tom's Hardware reports that crypto miners have found a way to circumvent the constraints.
In April 2021, Nvidia confirmed it would re-release most of its RTX 3000 GPUs with LHR limiters, which significantly reduces a card’s mining performance. The only exception was the RTX 3090 due to its apparent lack of popularity amongst miners. The hope was that this reduction in performance would disincentive any purchases by miners due to the massive reduction in profit they would see using these graphics cards.
This appeared to work for a time but developers of crypto mining software NBMiner and T-Rex have both restored mining performance levels to 70%, with the latter going one step further and achieving close to 100%.
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