NVIDIA Removes Hashrate Limiter for RTX 30-series LHR GPUs in the Latest Driver

[stimpy88]

What a nice company they are.

 

[Dirt Chip]

Probably the "NV move" of the year...

 

[Chomiq]

There's also sometimes significant increase in performance on 30-series in some DX12 titles:

*google translated*

 

[Bomby569]

nice, now some stupid miner can pay me 1000$ for my gpu in the next mining craziness. It has worked on the last 2

 

[Blaylock]

Nvidia had planned on doing this all along. Add in the self-inflicted supply shortage of 40 series and this is how Nvidia sells the overstock of 30 series cards.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Probably the "NV move" of the year...

Dick move more like, it's so irrelevant now I think it a waste of news space.

The fact they think this will sell cards makes them look idiotic and out of touch.

This won't shift a single GPU since mining is still dead and I know because I KNOW not think.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Well well

Another lie? It can't be! Noooooo! /s

G-Sync, DLSS etc etc. lol when will people learn... wait for it, wait for it, DLSS 3.0... soon...

On a side note, I wonder if this is why we get a little extra DX12 performance?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Another lie? It can't be! Noooooo! /s

G-Sync, DLSS etc etc. lol when will people learn... wait for it, wait for it, DLSS 3.0... soon...

On a side note, I wonder if this is why we get a little extra DX12 performance?

That Dx12 performance boost shouldn't be tied.
Nvidia Said LHR ONLY affected one type of Hashing algorithm so someone either chatted total balls Or it's coincidental.

According to other sites All RTX cards got a Dx12 boost from the latest drivers.

 

[Dirt Chip]

Dick move

It's basically mean the same thing

 

[Space Lynx]

a supposedly hardware-level limitation

Well well

Indeed. lmao

Nvidia can eat shit.

 

[Moofachuka]

Next driver, unlock DLSS 3 and AV1 for 30 series? It'll help clear some of their inventory...

 

[Ruru]

How I wasn't surprised at all that the "LHR" was only a software-limited thing.

 

[Arkz]

Nice, you can now mine at a loss while having up to date drivers to play the newest games!

You already could. Pretty much every miner can bypass the limiter since like February. Latest drivers weren't an issue.

 

[cvaldes]

How I wasn't surprised at all that the "LHR" was only a software-limited thing.

There should be no surprise.

When NVIDIA accidentally leaked out an unaltered driver to developers that didn't have the LHR limiting code activated, miners were able to use this discovery to create their own workarounds for later drivers that did have the LHR enabling code.

The actual LHR limiter is in hardware. Remember that the initial version of the RTX 3080 did not have this code and ETH mining was never throttled by any driver software in these early units. Same with the 3090 cards which also never had LHR. They mined at full speed too.

Internally NVIDIA probably never used the LHR-blocking drivers in house which led to them fumbling the ball by letting it accidentally leak out just that one instance.

NVIDIA simply removed the software switch to enable LHR in the cards that have the hardware code with the 522.25 driver release.

 

[igralec84]

You already could. Pretty much every miner can bypass the limiter since like February. Latest drivers weren't an issue.

Everything over 512.77 enabled LHR again, at least for ETH. The LHR unlock came out in May, which is when those drivers were released. Nvidia quickly "fixed" LHR unlock with the next version.

 

[Pumper]

They really are desperate: unlaunching the 12GB 4080

 

[igralec84]

Unlaunched to be relaunched as the... 4070 12gb! Followed by the 4070 8gb.

 

[cvaldes]

Unlaunched to be relaunched as the... 4070 12gb! Followed by the 4070 8gb.

Nah, my guess is that 4080 12GB will end up being 4070 Super or Ti (12GB) with a separate vanilla 4070 (8GB).

 

[lexluthermiester]

Stupid decision to begin with, why cripple the product while not reducing the price to reflect this.

You seem to have missed some historical context.

 

[Arkz]

Everything over 512.77 enabled LHR again, at least for ETH. The LHR unlock came out in May, which is when those drivers were released. Nvidia quickly "fixed" LHR unlock with the next version.

Oh I didn't know that, I use a 3080FE so never paid much attention to the LHR sitch. Though them doing this now when ETH is PoS and there's nothing else worth mining at all right now, even with dirt cheap electric. Like turning up to a party after everyone's gone.

Nah, my guess is that 4080 12GB will end up being 4070 Super or Ti (12GB) with a separate vanilla 4070 (8GB).

Bit late for 70 series cards to still be 8GB IMO. I think 10GB min, 8GB for 4060. Though really, I feel they're lagging behind a bit with VRAM size compared to AMD.

 

[cvaldes]

Bit late for 70 series cards to still be 8GB IMO. I think 10GB min, 8GB for 4060. Though really, I feel they're lagging behind a bit with VRAM size compared to AMD.

As I wrote in another discussion I didn't say that NVIDIA releasing a 4070 with 8GB VRAM is best. I just think that's what NVIDIA will do.

Two different concepts.

What convinces you to believe that NVIDIA will do what's "best" for gamers here in late 2022?

 

[Ruru]

They really are desperate: unlaunching the 12GB 4080

What the.... they listened customers for once?

 

[Arkz]

As I wrote in another discussion I didn't say that NVIDIA releasing a 4070 with 8GB VRAM is best. I just think that's what NVIDIA will do.

Two different concepts.

What convinces you to believe that NVIDIA will do what's "best" for gamers here in late 2022?

Nothng? I said IMO. They've never cared. Look at the 3080 10GB. They cheaped out on 2 of the 1GB modules.

 

[Ruru]

Nothng? I said IMO. They've never cared. Look at the 3080 10GB. They cheaped out on 2 of the 1GB modules.

I'd call it milking. Nothing is a better cash-grab than sell a ton of one SKU, then release an improved model (or two in this case, the 12GB and Ti) later.

 

[cvaldes]

Nothng? I said IMO. They've never cared. Look at the 3080 10GB. They cheaped out on 2 of the 1GB modules.

Oh, I'm quite sure the BOM for the 3080 10GB model was very deliberately chosen.

After all, they pair these GPUs in the lab with different combinations of VRAM from different vendors at different memory bandwidths, at different speeds, etc.

And from all those experiments, they come up with one or two combinations that will make it as a final product.