Nvidia accidentally released the release of the mining speed limiter limit to the GeForce RTX 3060, a GPU, through an official driver to prevent use for mining purposes. Distribution of the driver has already been stopped.
The reason why the RTX 30 series, including the GeForce RTX 3060, was imposed with restrictions that are not suitable for cryptographic asset mining purposes due to the situation in which a controversy between gamers and cryptocurrency miners over GPUs. NVIDIA is planning to release the CMP HX series, which is a GPU suitable for mining purposes, in the first quarter of 2021, and the RTX 30 series is aiming for coexistence by using it for gaming purposes.
Some point out that the information discovered by the recent method of solving the hash rate limiter can destroy this coexistence, but it is pointed out that it was an unrestricted number of cryptographic assets rather than solving the problem. But what it turns out is that it can lift the restrictions imposed by NVIDIA’s official distribution drivers. The driver is a beta driver GeForce 470.05 distributed to developers through the Windows Insider program, and it is said that the internal development code to disable the hash rate limiter was incorrectly included.
Nvidia canceled the distribution of the driver, but as it is already out, the RTX 3060 seems to have become a target for mining purposes. Related information can be found here.