Although the global chip shortage is referred to as the main reason why gamers have been struggling to get their hands on NVIDIA's GPUs, there is another group that has been buying out these GPUs. Despite NVIDIA's efforts to stop cryptocurrency miners from buying GPUs with their LHR, it seems like the miners have broken through the light hash rate versions.
NVIDIA Releases New Version of GPUs
According to the story by TechRadar, some time early last year, NVIDIA released a new version of GPUs which were designed to turn off crypto miners called the LHR or light hash rate versions. The company started with the NVIDIA RTX 3060 which aimed to stop cryptocurrency miners from wiping out stock before gamers had a chance to buy them.
This development, however, looks like it just "went up in smoke." A particular software created by the GitHub user SergeyDev allegedly gets users through the "hash rate limiter" in order to make the GPUs powerful enough to handle mining functions.
NVIDIA GPUs Back to 'Full Mining Strength' with Workaround
The Chinese tech website MyDrivers reported the speed of every single unlocked GPU which was spotted by VideoCardz. As seen in the report, it seems like all of the NVIDIA GPUs are well back to their previous "full mining strength."
How the software works is that it is "essentially a third-party graphics driver and BIOS" meaning it would still fall in the "download at your own risk category." Should the software work, however, it could then make "all these NVIDIA cards" attractive to Bitcoin miners once again.
How NVIDIA Could Deal with the Workaround
Should crypto miners go on a buying spree once again, this would reduce supplies and even shoot up GPU prices once again. This is something that regular gamers have been struggling with due to the limited supply and competition with crypto miners when it comes to buying GPUs.
As per TechRadar, they do not test "cryptocurrency mining performance" noting that they can't particularly speak as to whether or not the software is effective. Either way, however, it is still very unlikely that NVIDIA will be able to "easily stamp out this workaround."
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Scalpers Increase the Difficulty of Buying GPUs for Regular Gamers
The struggle is that in order to counter the workaround, "any existing graphics card on the market would need a BIOS update to counter it. TechRadar reportedly reached out to NVIDIA for a comment and are still waiting for a response.
When it comes to cryptocurrency miners, the vast increase of GPUs being used for mining has become problematic for gamers. Another problem regular gamers are experiencing when it comes to buying GPUs are regular scalpers.
Aside from the global chip shortage and cryptocurrency miners, scalpers have also been buying out any available GPU stock and reselling them at higher prices.
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Written by Urian B.
