LHRv3 mostly bypassed by nicehash [Tomshardware / Techpowerup]

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NiceHash Unlocks 90% of LHRv3 Restriction for NVIDIA GPUs

NiceHash, one of the largest mining software providers in the world, has today announced that the company had updated its QuickHash miner with the capability to unlock 90% of the performance for NVIDIA's Lite Hash Rate (LHR) version 3. Currently, there are only two cards available with LHRv3 on...

www.techpowerup.com

According to this short article, nicehash now has the LHRv3 cards, the RTX 3080 12GB and the RTX 3050, mostly unlocked for ethash mining. That said, the article does give much information, and there is nothing on the actual hashrate or efficiency results of said LHRv3 unlock attempts. Obviously YMMV.

@VirtualLarry you might take interest

On a side note, I don't think this matters much anymore, as many cards are currently quite a bit more available/affordable from both Nvidia and AMD, which I suspect is due to factors of reduced profitability in ETH mining, market fears/uncertainty, and the approaching ETH transition off of PoS.

 

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Apparently, TPU is just sourcing Tomshardware. Here is their orginal article, with more information, including some expected hashrates. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nicehash-announces-90-lhrv3-unlock-for-rtx-3050-and-3080-12gb