NVIDIA limits the amount of Ethereum mining from the RTX 360s, but a driver removed that limitation. It is not intentional, but an accident that they want to fix.
The cryptocurrency miners Bitcoin and Ethereum among others sweep the high-end graphics such as the NVIDIA RTX 3040, 3060, and 3080. This is why NVIDIA wants to make them less attractive. They came up with the idea of limiting its mining capacity until the 407.05 drivers unlocked it.
A small driver revalues the RTX 3060 to mine Ethereum
Last month a new driver for the NVIDIA RTX 3060 arrived. This driver contained some code for the developers of the company that limits the hash limit of the graphics card. With this, the limit has been unlocked and Ethereum can be mined more effectively.
Is it intentional? No, because NVIDIA has recognized that it is an accident and it has been withdrawn. But whoever wants to use their RTX 3060 to mine Ethereum will be able to find the driver in unofficial repositories and the manufacturer cannot make that driver no longer effective on the cards.
The driver has dealt a serious blow to NVIDIA's plan to make RTX family graphics cards used by video professionals, special effects, graphic designers, or gamers. These are the ones who are suffering from the shortage of these graphics since miners are their biggest buyers. The constant interest of cryptocurrency miners in high-capacity graphics cards such as the aforementioned NVIDIA RTX series has led the manufacturer to predict that at least this year there will be a notable lack of stock. If you want an NVIDIA RTX 3060 to play video games or to do ambitious 3D animation projects, it is going to have to wait a long time until they solve the one that is so attractive to miners.
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