Nvidia announces mining restrictions for the RTX 3060 graphics card

Nvidia’s 30-Series graphics cards have been hugely popular for both gamers and cryptocurrency miners since launch, making it extremely difficult for Nvidia to keep up with stock. 

Now Nvidia is intervening by declaring “GeForce Is Made for Gaming” and limiting the RTX 3060‘s hash rate. The graphics card’s driver software will reportedly detect “specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm” and reduce the mining efficiency by around 50%.

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