“Is the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti hash rate limited, or will we have to compete with Ethereum miners for these cards?”
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It is, but miners will probably buy them anyway.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It is limited for ethereum but not for ravencoin, ergo, ethereum classic...... Vitalik said the merge is happening q1 2022 and then ethereum will be proof of stake. So limiting ethereum in my opinion was a move by Nvidia just for show, it really does not stop anyone from mining on them.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The answer is yes, but Etherum miners have bypassed the set limit
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. Hash rates for the ETHEREUM algorithm are detected and performance is quickly halved by NVIDIA's BIOS. Mining performance for this card (freshly leaked) is about 40MH/s where it could normally do 80+. The 3060 Ti was supposed to do the same thing. OK, it initially did and if you leave the factory BIOS alone it still does. But somebody quickly leaked a beta BIOS version from NVIDIA that didn't include the low hash rate code. Unless something like that happens for the 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti, they will have half the normal mining performance for ETH and similar cryptos which also use the ethash algorithm. The BIOSes for RTX 30xx series cards are encrypted and also have to be digitally signed by NVIDIA. They've been thus far impossible to hack.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You cannot stop miners from mining!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The 3060 (the first card to have the limiter), was hacked and unlocked really quickly after release. If you watch mining videos and read the comments, you'll see a bunch of comments from miners who buy gamer cards anyway, some just to spite gamers. All nvidia did was give the miners an advantage, which they didn't learn from the last crypto boom a few years back.
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