Ever since cryptocurrency miners realized that the graphics processing units (GPUs) used to process the demanding visuals for modern PC games could be turned to the task of crunching numbers to produce crypto, gamers and miners have been at loggerheads. Miners have snapped up stocks of GPUs as soon as they come on the market, sending prices soaring and leaving gamers empty-handed.
Those tensions threatened to burst forth last week, as reports spread that so-called hash-rate limits—applied by GPU manufacturer Nvidia to reduce a chip’s efficiency when mining cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum—had been compromised.
The news was subsequently debunked, and experts said it was almost impossible to get around the restrictions, which slash RTX 3060 crypto mining capacity by 50%. Subsequently, multiple reports have claimed that a beta driver release bypasses Nvidia’s restrictions.
The furor highlights growing apprehension in the chip industry, as principal manufacturers Nvidia and AMD s
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