In the latest driver, NVIDIA removes the hashrate limiter for RTX 30-series LHR GPUs.

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It seems the Hashrate limiter was taken out of the latest GeForce 522.25 drivers by NVIDIA, but it was not mentioned anywhere in the release notes. 



A Reddit user with the username "Timbers007" and a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti said that their card, which only came out with LHR (there are no RTX 3080 Ti cards without LHR in circulation), is now getting double its usual hashrates when tested with ethminer. It can produce 112 MH/s, which is a hashrate that can only be reached with mining software that gets around the LHR limiter, like NiceHash or NBMiner.

Rapid Mining on YouTube shows an RTX 3060 v2 (model with LHR) hitting 47 MH/s with the latest driver, proving that LHR has been removed. Mining performance of NVIDIA RTX 3060 using GeForce 522.25 driver, Rabid Mining is the source. NVIDIA launched LHR models in May 2021, however, the technique was swiftly circumvented by resourceful mining tool developers. LHR was eventually fully unlocked, which influenced GPU cost, although only for a short time. The LHR technique was a simple fix that impacted all memory-intensive crypto mining workloads. NVIDIA had to re-release several graphics cards, although it was finally included into all RTX 30 series GPUs save the flagship RTX 3090.

According to Redditor, the LHR has been removed from Windows and Linux drivers, which implies that it will no longer be necessary to operate miners with privileged user accounts for Ergo or Ethereum Classic mining.

In the latest driver, NVIDIA removes the hashrate limiter for RTX 30-series LHR GPUs.


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