dups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260

Not sure if maybe @dang should merge? The original was popular but hit the one hour mark and dropped down to page 3.

Comments merged thither. Thanks!

original source:

"GeForce Is Made for Gaming, CMP Is Made to Mine

We’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners and launching NVIDIA CMP for professional mining."

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/

"RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent."

imho: Open Source Driver is the future !

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