The best graphics cards are almost vapourware at this point, with the likes of Nvidia's RTX 2060 12GB not even showing up on launch day. Sadly, while it seems like the graphics card shortage situation couldn't get any worse, EVGA just made its spin on the RTX 3080 Ti more appealing to crypto miners, meaning gaming PCs might have to wait longer for a GPU upgrade.
Spotted by PC Gamer, the new vBIOS update resolves power restrictions that cause the EVGA RTX 3080 Ti XC3 to underclock when dealing with memory-intensive activities. While this enhances the card's video rendering and encoding abilities, it also inadvertently boosts its mining capabilities, and the GPU is already grabbing the attention of crypto enthusiasts.
In a recent video, YouTuber Red Panda Mining took EVGA's XC3 BIOS and flashed it to a Inno3D 3080 Ti iChill X3, resulting in hash rate figures reaching 91MHps. For context, the original RTX 3080 features a full hash rate of 100MHps, which means the Ti model could sub for the mining scene's favourite GPU.
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