NVIDIA’s mining limiters bested by crypto miners with help of T-Rex software
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NVIDIA has been working hard to prove that thebest GPUs for crypto miningare in fact not the best GPUS for crypto mining at all and that consumer-facing graphics cards should be for average users and not those looking to make a crypto fortune. The company’s stance comes at a time when analyst statistics estimate that roughly25% of GPUs went to crypto minersand scalpers in the first quarter of 2021.
To combat miners, NVIDIA has instated hash rate limiters in many of its cards. You can learn what a hash rate is in ourprevious coverage on the topic, but here’s the key takeaway: Hash rates are essential to crypto mining, and putting a limit on them minimizes a GPU’s ability to effectively and efficiently dig for cryptocurrency.
So the question for miners has become:How to mine cryptowhen NVIDIA is deliberately trying to stymie said activity. And the latest answer to that ever-evolving question turns out to be rather counterintuitive.
As reported byTom’s Hardware, a software has seized upon a fresh solution to the hash rate limiter conundrum. In order to bypass NVIDIA’s forbidden activities list, it simply does more of the forbidden activity. That’s right: The software (named T-Rex) means that if you mine two cryptocurrencies instead of just one, you can bypass limiters. The tradeoff is that you still can’t focus 100% of a card’s energies on one currency, but at least you can maximize the card’s overall output.
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