It is, of course, Nvidia's right to try to kneecap what you can do with hardware purchased from them. But it's also your right to purchase your graphics cards from someone else, which I encourage everyone to do.
"Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 hash rate limiter was unhackable, unfortunately the green team freely distributed a developer driver which removed the limiting code, effectively releasing its own workaround. I would not have wanted to be the person who had to tell that to Jen-Hsun. The company has now removed that driver from its download site in the hope that it can squeeze that particular genie back into the bottle it came from.
This is a major issue for Nvidia, given that it went to such lengths to introduce the hash rate limiter in order to give gamers the best chance of being able to bag a new Ampere card ahead of the massed ranks for cryptocurrency miners.
It would have been one thing if some enterprising coder had managed to find a way around "the secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS" but it's another thing entirely for Nvidia to self-publish the workaround.
"A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations," reads the terse official statement from Nvidia we've received. "The driver has been removed.""
https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-rtx-3060-hash-rate-limiter-driver-bypass-removed/
"Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 hash rate limiter was unhackable, unfortunately the green team freely distributed a developer driver which removed the limiting code, effectively releasing its own workaround. I would not have wanted to be the person who had to tell that to Jen-Hsun. The company has now removed that driver from its download site in the hope that it can squeeze that particular genie back into the bottle it came from.
This is a major issue for Nvidia, given that it went to such lengths to introduce the hash rate limiter in order to give gamers the best chance of being able to bag a new Ampere card ahead of the massed ranks for cryptocurrency miners.
It would have been one thing if some enterprising coder had managed to find a way around "the secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS" but it's another thing entirely for Nvidia to self-publish the workaround.
"A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations," reads the terse official statement from Nvidia we've received. "The driver has been removed.""
https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-rtx-3060-hash-rate-limiter-driver-bypass-removed/