EVGA new firmware improves mining efficiency on GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 30 LHR series GPU in May of this year, and its LHR is the abbreviation of “Lite Hash Rate”, which means that the new version of GPU will have a new version of cryptocurrency mining limiter, including the subsequent GeForce RTX 3080 Ti/RTX 3070 Ti also has the same limitation, reducing the Ethereum computing power to about half of the original level.
Even if NVIDIA has added the new version of the cryptocurrency mining limiter, there are still people who try to improve the efficiency of mining through various methods. For example, in the past few months, the mining software NBMiner v39.0 circumvented some of the limitations of NVIDIA, increasing the computing power from 50% of the limit to 68%. Another mining software, T-Rex, mines two different cryptocurrencies at the same time, which increases the utilization rate of GPU mining to maximize revenue.
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According to OwnSnap, miners now have a new way to improve mining performance. Some users have found that most of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti BIOS have a hidden power consumption limit, that is, once the memory load is found to be too high, it will default to the mining operation, and then start the limit. In theory, it is difficult to bypass this restriction with conventional methods. However, after the discovery by Nvidia’s core partner EVGA, it was probably considered a bug and released a fixed firmware, thereby lifting the restriction.
If you are an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card user, you can update the BIOS through its Precision X1 software. Users report that after using the new BIOS, the hash rate has increased from 66 MH/s to 80 MH/s, which is 21%. For other brands of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards, you can also try to flash the EVGA BIOS, but the risk is much higher. However, some users have already flashed the BIOS of EVGA on Inno3d RTX 3080 Ti iChill X3. After optimization, the hash rate has even increased to 91 MH/s. Of course, this is extremely risky between cross-brand products, and it is best not to try it for general users.
