Thanks to the BIOS update of the EVGA version of the Nvidia RTX 3080ti LHR graphics card, Ethereum miners can now enjoy a hash rate of more than 21%.
According to a report by OwnSnap, ETH miners can now use a BIOS update to unlock more computing power on their RTX 3080ti LHR version card.
LHR or "Lite Hash Rate" is an updated series of Nvidia's RTX GPUs, and it comes with a pre-built limiter for the card's total mining hash rate.
With these cards, Ethereum miners can only use about 50% of GPU performance when mining.
However, not long ago, an update of the popular mining program NBminer unlocked some hash rates, and miners can now use about 70% of the total GPU power.
Then, a few months ago, some miners were able to unlock 100% of the computing power on these RTX LHR cards. But there is a problem here, that is, the extra power can only be used to mine coins other than Ethereum. For example, 70% of the computing power goes to ETH, while the remaining 30% goes to another coin.
A few days ago, Nvidia’s graphics partner EVGA released a firmware update for the RTX 3080ti LHR, which fixed the issue of GPU power limitation under high workloads.
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Through the update, ETH miners can now enjoy about 80 MH/s computing power, which is 21% higher than the previous 66 MH/s computing power.
So far, there is no such firmware update for any brand card except EVGA. However, owners of RTX 3080ti from other Nvidia partners can still download this update and use it to custom flash their BIOS.
But please note that flashing the BIOS from other GPU models may be very dangerous and may even brick your card.
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Nevertheless, some users have found that non-EVGA cards can show better results with this update. Red Panda Mining can squeeze about 91 MH/s with his Inno-3D RTX 3080ti.
At the time of writing, the price of Ethereum is floating around $390 and has fallen by 2% in the past 7 days. In the past month, cryptocurrencies have accumulated losses of 3%.
This is a chart showing the trend of token prices in the past five days:
Ethereum broke through $4,100 yesterday, but today the cryptocurrency fell again and erased some of the recovery it achieved.
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