GeForce RTX 3060, a blunder from Nvidia may cost players dearly

GEFORCE RTX 3060

A nasty surprise touches the recent GeForce RTX 3060 from Nvidia. This gamer graphics card is believed to have anti-crypto protection. It seems that the latest drivers offered by Nvidia remove this protection.

The gamer graphics card market is the victim of production unable to meet demand. For months, stockouts have been linked and prices have climbed to new heights. During the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060, Nvidia tried to reassure gamers. How? 'Or' What? the firm has put forward so-called anti-crypto protection to make the GeForce RTX 3060 unsuitable for the mining market. The idea was to reduce the share of this demand causing a price explosion. Indeed the price of a graphics card is not really a problem in this market knowing that the card is used to create virtual money. For players, the equation is different because the price is only related to a hobby.

GeForce RTX 3060, farewell anti-crypto protection

AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 ELITE 12G Graphics Card

According to PC Watch, the latest GeForce 470.05 drivers offered by the firm to developers via the Windows Insider program remove this security, considerably improving the “mining” performance of this GeForce RTX3060. It thus regains all its "superb" with the miners. Now all they have to do is stop updating the graphics drivers.

HardwareLuxx and ComputerBase have verified this information. Now the mining prowess of this GeForce RTX 3060 is roughly at the level of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. Although Nvidia has indicated that this protection is sophisticated relying on the driver and firmware, this finding shows that it seems easy to deactivate it.